In defiance of boundaries : anarchism in Latin American history /
edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the hidden story line of anarchism in Latin American history / Crossing borders: internationalism, solidarity, and transnationalism -- Cuban cigar makers in Havana, Key West, and Ybor City, 1850s-1890s: a single universe? / Panama red: anarchist politics and transnational networks in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904-1913 / Moving between the global and the local: theIindustrial Workers of the World and their press in Latin America / The FACA and the FAI: Argentine anarchists and the revolution in Spain, 1930-1939 / Harnessing the collective: labor, culture, and counterhegemonic movements -- From anarchists to "anarcho-batllistas" : populism and labor legislation in Uruguay / Rebel soul: cultural politics and Cuban anarchism, 1890s-1920s / From workers' militancy to cultural action: Brazilian anarchism in Rio Grande do Sul, 1890s-1940s / Memories and temporalities of anarchist resistance: community traditions, labor insurgencies, and Argentine shipyard workers, early 1900s to late 1950s / The personal to the popular: nation, identity, and gender -- From radicals to heroes of the republic: anarchism and national identity in Costa Rica, 1900-1977 / Magonismo, the revolution, and the anarchist appropriation of an imagined Mexican indigenous identity / Anarchist visions of race and space in northern Perú, 1898-1922 / Anarchists and alterity: the expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile, 1920 / The anarchist wager of sexual emancipation in Argentina, 1900-1930 / Epilogue. transference, culture, and critique: the circulation of anarchist ideas and practices / Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer -- Evan Matthew Daniel -- Kirwin Shaffer -- Anton Rosenthal -- James Baer -- Lars Peterson -- Kirwin Shaffer -- Beatriz Ana Loner -- Geoffroy de Laforcade -- David Díaz-Arias -- Shawn England -- Steven J. Hirsch -- Raymond Craib -- Laura Fernández Cordero -- Joseʹ 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.