Overview
- Calls for a reassessment of colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean
- Underlines the Euro-centric understanding of anarchism and the persisting power relations among activists
- Highlights the lack of literature on anarchism and, in particular, on the anti-authoritarian experiences of Arab Mediterranean societies
Part of the book series: Middle East Today (MIET)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism. Anarchism as prefigurative politics has influenced several generations of activists and has expressed the most profound libertarian desire of Southern Mediterranean societies. The emergence of anarchist and anti-authoritarian movements and collective actions from Morocco to Palestine, Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan has changed the focus of our attention in the last decade. How have these anarchist movements been formulated? What characteristics do they share with other libertarian experiences? Why are there hardly any studies on anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean? In turn, the book critically reviews the anti-authoritarian geographies in the South of the Mediterranean and reassesses the postcolonial status of these emancipatory projects. Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean invites us to revisit the necessity of decolonizing anarchism, which is enunciated, in many cases, from a privileged epistemic position reproducing neocolonial power relations.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Laura Galián is a Juan de la Cierva fellowship researcher at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. Her work has focused on decolonization theories and movements in the Middle East. She is part of the Horizon 2020 project RETOPEA: Religious Toleration and Peace, funded by the European Commission.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean
Authors: Laura Galián
Series Title: Middle East Today
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45449-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45448-7Published: 25 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45451-7Published: 26 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45449-4Published: 24 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-7017
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, African Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Religion, Development and Post-Colonialism