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The anomie of the earth : philosophy, politics, and autonomy in Europe and the Americas / Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, and Wilson Kaiser, eds. ; foreword by Walter Mignolo. Afterword by Sandro Mezzadra.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Luisetti, Federico, 1969-
Pickles, John, 1952-
Kaiser, Wilson, 1978-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Geopolitics--Europe.
Geopolitics.
Geopolitics--America.
Political anthropology--Europe.
Political anthropology.
Political anthropology--America.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
<div><I>The Anomie of the Earth</I>'s contributors explore the convergences between Italian Marxist autonomic theory and Latin American decolonial thinking. They reject Carl Schmitt's formulation of a universalized world order based on the Western tenets of law and property and discuss the possibilities of locally organized and autonomous self-government.<BR></div>
Contents:
Anomie, resurgences, and de-noming / Walter Mignolo
Autonomy: political theory/political anthropology / Federico Luisetti, Wilson Kaiser, and John Pickles
Geographies of autonomy
The death of Vitruvian man: anomaly, anomie, autonomy / Joost de Bloois
Sovereignty, indigeneity, territory: Zapatista autonomy and the new practices of decolonization / Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman
Indigeneity and commons
Enclosing the enclosers: autonomous experiences from the grassroots, beyond development, globalization and postmodernity / Gustavo Esteva
Life and nature otherwise: challenges from the abya-yalean andes / Catherine E. Walsh
Mind the gap: indigenous sovereignty and the antinomies of empire / Jodi A. Byrd
The enclosure of the nomos: appropriation and conquest in the New World / Zac Zimmer
Forms of life
Decontainment: the collapse of the Katechon and the end of hegemony / Gareth Williams
The savage ontology of insurrection: negativity, life, and anarchy / Benjamin Noys
Unreasonability, style, and pretiosity / Frans-Willem Korsten
Reenchanting the world: technology, the body, and the construction of the commons / Silvia Federici
Afterword resonances of the common / Sandro Mezzadra.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780822358930
082235893X
OCLC:
1150993391

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