Without masters : autogestión, anarchist ethics, and Mexico City punk / Livia K. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Livia, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Employee participation--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century.

Management.

Punk culture--Political aspects--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century.

Punk culture.

Anarchism--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century.

Anarchism.

Political anthropology--Mexico--Mexico City.

Political anthropology.

Mexico City (Mexico)--Political activity--History--20th century.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión around the world in the twentieth century, beginning with Algeria in 1962 and ending in its mistaken identity as a Zapatista principle in Mexico in the 1990s. Along the way, it was adopted by French radicals of the 1960's, transformed by Mexico City's anarcho-punk scene in the 1980s, became attached to Zapatismo through university benefit concerts in the 1990s, and popularized through the large national university (UNAM) strike of 1999-2000. By the first decades of the twenty first century, autogestión was associated more closely with independent cultural production (zines, music, art) and Zapatismo than with its origins in anarchism or syndicalism. Livia K. Stone brings the quiet radicalism of Mexico City's autogestive collectives to an English-speaking audience for the first time as it serves as a reminder of Mexico's formative role in the creation of prestige social theory and re-thinks the relationship between data and theory in the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Getting the History Right

Ubiquitous and Invisible Mexico City

El Chopo

Punk and Zapatismo

It All Starts with a Strike

The Strike

What Do We Have Left?

Colectivos Autogestivos.

ISBN:

1-4780-6266-5