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Anti-authoritarian, Anti-colonial, AlterNative Politics
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Anti-authoritarian, Anti-colonial, AlterNative Politics book
Anti-authoritarian, Anti-colonial, AlterNative Politics
DOI link for Anti-authoritarian, Anti-colonial, AlterNative Politics
Anti-authoritarian, Anti-colonial, AlterNative Politics book
ABSTRACT
In “Anti-authoritarian, Anti-colonial, AlterNative Politics,” I offer my anti-authoritarian, anti-colonial, alterNative framework. My analysis borrows from alterNative theorists Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Devon G. Peña; the indigenist anarchist theorizing of Taiaike Alfred and other revolutionary anti-colonial indigenous scholarship; transnational feminist theories of Emma Perez and Rita Dhamon and anarchist feminism; and anarchism. I discuss each of these liberatory perspectives and develop an analysis that fuses the strengths of each perspective. Indigenous anti-colonial theories focus on land and an indigenous resurgence through maintenance of indigenous ways of being. Third space feminism pushes back against masculinist decolonial and revolutionary work while offering new perspectives on resistance to colonialism, anti-capitalism, and alterNative futures. The anarchism of Kroptokin, Malatesta, Flores Magón, and others adds a relentless and multifaceted critique of capitalism and the European-style nation-state. Moreover, queer indigenous studies and jotería studies offer keen insight into how colonialism and capitalism use sexuality and sexual difference as weapons to subjugate the colonized, racialized, and working classes; how subordinated groups and nations often succumb to the colonizer’s gender/sex/sexuality system; and how a two-spirited or [email protected] analysis is central to anti-colonial projects.