Raúl Zibechi
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In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15. 5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series of alliances that have placed it at the center of political and economic power in the region. From the outside, Brazil is a poster child for neoliberal...
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Este libro pone en discusión certezas, ortodoxias y mitos; nos deja, por el momento, preguntas sin respuestas. La certidumbre y la predictibilidad hacen parte del capitalismo sin embargo el camino de la autonomía y la emancipación social es un camino lleno de dudas y sin resultados rápidos, para el cual hay que armarse con grandes dosis de alegría, paciencia e ironía. Sabiendo que la incertidumbre es una oportunidad para resistir, crear y experimentar...
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This, Raúl Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like the movements it describes, explores new ways of doing politics beyond the state, gracefully mapping the "how" of revolution, offering valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical frameworks for understanding how social movements...
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Territories in Resistance is an indispensable complement to existing literature on Latin American autonomous social movements. Explore the “other worlds” being created in the wreckage of colonialism and capitalism. From Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia to Argentina and Brazil, no living author digs as deep and presents theoretical challenges quite like Raúl Zibechi.
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Contra el Estado han chocado las mejores intenciones emancipatorias de los pueblos y de los trabajadores, en los dos últimos siglos. Cuando se rebelaron armas en mano, fueron reprimidos hasta el genocidio. Cuando optaron por el camino institucional, sus demandas fueron escamoteadas en los laberintos de las burocracias, a través de la cooptación de sus dirigentes o de la incorporación de movimientos enteros a la gobernabilidad neoliberal. Lo intere-...
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AK PRESS
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[2024]
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English
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"Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of Latin America by one-dimensional, ethnocentric perspectives that permeate the North American left and block fundamental social change in the Global South. In a provocative mix of polemic and on-the-ground analysis, Raúl Zibechi argues that it is time for radicals in the Global North to learn from the people their governments have colonized and oppressed for centuries. Through...