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


Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015];©2015
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  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-368) and index.
  • Introduction. The hidden story line of anarchism in Latin American history / Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer — Part I. Crossing borders: internationalism, solidarity, and transnationalism — 1. Cuban cigar makers in Havana, Key West, and Ybor City, 1850s-1890s: a single universe? / Evan Matthew Daniel — 2. Panama red: anarchist politics and transnational networks in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904-1913 / Kirwin Shaffer — 3. Moving between the global and the local: the industrial workers of the world and their press in Latin America / Anton Rosenthal — 4. The FACA and the FAI: Argentine anarchists and the revolution in Spain, 1930-1939 / James Baer — Part II. Harnessing the collective: labor, culture, and counterhegemonic movements — 5. From anarchists to anarcho-batllistas : populism and labor legislation in Uruguay / Lars Peterson — 6. Rebel soul: cultural politics and Cuban anarchism, 1890s-1920s / Kirwin Shaffer — 7. From workers’ militancy to cultural action: Brazilian anarchism in Rio Grande do Sul, 1890s-1940s / Beatriz Ana Loner — 8. Memories and temporalities of anarchist resistance: community traditions, labor insurgencies, and Argentine shipyard workers, early 1900s to late 1950s / Geoffroy de Laforcade — Part III. The personal to the popular: nation, identity, and gender — 9. From radicals to heroes of the republic: anarchism and national identity in Costa Rica, 1900-1977 / David Díaz-Arias — 10. Magonismo, the revolution, and the anarchist appropriation of an imagined Mexican indigenous identity / Shawn England — 11. Anarchist visions of race and space in northern Perú, 1898-1922 / Steven J. Hirsch — 12. Anarchists and alterity: the expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile, 1920 / Raymond Craib — 13. 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 / José C. Moya.
  • 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.

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