In Defiance of Boundaries

Choice Outstanding Academic Title'A pioneering collection of essays on the world of anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian thinkers in Latin America.''Barry Carr, coeditor of The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire
 
'An important contribution to a recent trend which sees anarchism not as derived from a European center but as a genuine Latin American phenomenon.''Bert Altena, coeditor of Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies
 
'thoughtful, well-researched, and well-written. As a collection, this goes a long way to furthering our understanding not just of anarchism in Latin America, but of anarchism more generally.''mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion.
 

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, anarchism in Latin America becomes much more than a prelude to populist and socialist movements. The contributors illustrate a much more vast, differentiated, and active anarchist presence in the region that evolved on simultaneous'transnational, national, regional, and local'fronts.
           
Representing a new wave of transnational scholarship, these essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational experimentation. They offer a variety of perspectives on anarchism's role in shaping ideas about nationalism, identity, organized labor, and counterculture across a wide swath of Latin America. 
Contributors: James Baer | Raymond Craib | Evan Matthew Daniel | David Diaz-Arias | Shawn England | Laura Fernandez Cordero | Steven J. Hirsch | Geoffroy de Laforcade | Beatriz Ana Loner | Jose C. Moya | Lars Peterson | Anton Rosenthal | Kirwin Shaffer