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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: politics of autonomy in Latin America
    sub title: the art of organising hope in the twenty-first century
  name:
    name part: Dinerstein, Ana C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Dinerstein offers a much needed review of the concept and practice of autonomy. She argues that defining autonomy as either revolutionary or ineffective vis-a-vis the state does not fully grasp the commitment of Latin American movements' to the creation of alternative practices and horizons beyond capitalism. By establishing an elective affinity between autonomy and Bloch's principle of hope, the author defines autonomy as 'the art of organizing hope', that is the art of shaping a reality which does not yet exists but can be anticipated by the movements collective actions. Drawing from the experience of four prominent indigenous and non-indigenous movements, Dinerstein suggests that the politics of autonomy produce an excess that cannot be translated into the grammar of power. This involves an engagement with a reality that is not yet and, therefore, counters value with hope. The book also offers a critique of political economy, reading Marx's philosophy in key with hope, and interprets the prefigurative features of autonomy at a time when utopia can no longer be objected.
  table of contents: 1. Embracing the Other Side : an introduction -- Part I. Theorising Autonomy: 2. Meanings of Autonomy : Trajectories, Modes, Differences; 3. Autonomy in the Key of Hope : Understanding Prefiguration -- Part II. Navigating Autonomy: 4. Organising Negation : Neoliberal Hopelessness, Insurgent Hope (Mexico); 5. Shaping Concrete Utopia : Urban Experiments (Argentina); 6. Contesting Translation : Indigenous-Popular Resistance (Bolivia); 7. Venturing Beyond the Wire : The Sem Terra's Dream (Brazil) -- Part III. Rethinking Autonomy: 8. Confronting Value with Hope : a Prefigurative Critique of Political Economy; 9. Living in Blochian Times : Opening Remarks.
  note: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, associate professor, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: cl-----
  subject:
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1980-
  subject:
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1982-
  subject:
    topic: Social movements
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: Autonomy (Philosophy)
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Hope
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: Hope
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
  classification: F1414.3 .D56 2015
  classification: 320.09809/04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Non-governmental public action series
  identifier: 9780230272088 (hardback)
  identifier: 0230272088 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014026513
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140804
    record change date: 20151206125546.0
    record identifier: in00003494922