In defiance of boundaries : anarchism in Latin American history / edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laforcade, Geoffroy de, editor.

Shaffer, Kirwin R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism--Latin America--History.

Anarchism.

Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited collection is the first to sample the new wave of scholarship on Latin American anarchism to trace the transnational anarchist presence in Latin America at the turn of the twentieth century. The essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational experimentation.

Contents:

Introduction: the hidden story line of anarchism in Latin American history / Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer

Crossing borders: internationalism, solidarity, and transnationalism

Cuban cigar makers in Havana, Key West, and Ybor City, 1850's-1890's: a single universe? / Evan Matthew Daniel

Panama red: anarchist politics and transnational networks in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904-1913 / Kirwin Shaffer

Moving between the global and the local: the industrial workers of the world and their press in Latin America / Anton Rosenthal

The faca and the fai: Argentine anarchists and the revolution in Spain, 1930-1939 / James Baer

Harnessing the collective: labor, culture, and counterhegemonic movements

From anarchists to "anarcho-batllistas": populism and labor legislation in Uruguay / Lars Peterson

Rebel soul: cultural politics and Cuban anarchism, 1890's-1920's / Kirwin Shaffer

From workers? militancy to cultural action: Brazilian anarchism in Rio Grande do Sul, 1890's-1940's / Beatriz Ana Loner

Memories and temporalities of anarchist resistance: community traditions, labor insurgencies, and Argentine shipyard workers, early 1900's to late 1950's / Geoffroy de Laforcade

The personal to the popular: nation, identity, and gender

From radicals to heroes of the republic: anarchism and national identity in Costa Rica, 1900-1977 / David Díaz-Arias

Magonismo, the revolution, and the anarchist appropriation of an imagined Mexican indigenous identity / Shawn England

Anarchist visions of race and space in northern Perú, 1898-1922 / Steven J. Hirsch

Anarchists and alterity: the expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile, 1920 / Raymond Craib

The anarchist wager of sexual emancipation in Argentina, 1900-1930 / Laura Fernández Cordero

Epilogue. transference, culture, and critique: the circulation of anarchist ideas and practices / Jos C. Moya.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5138-X

0-8130-5552-0

OCLC:

915562576