The politics of autonomy in Latin America : the art of organising hope in the twenty-first century / Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (associate professor, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK).

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Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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245 1 4 |a The politics of autonomy in Latin America :  |b the art of organising hope in the twenty-first century /  |c Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (associate professor, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK). 
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264 1 |a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :  |b Palgrave Macmillan,  |c 2014. 
300 |a xxv, 282 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 23 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (page 235-269) and index. 
505 0 |a 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 Utopias : Urban Experiments (Argentina) -- 6. Resisting 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. 
520 2 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
651 0 |a Latin America  |x Politics and government  |y 1980- 
651 0 |a Latin America  |x History. 
651 0 |a Latin America  |x Social conditions  |y 1982- 
650 0 |a Social movements  |z Latin America. 
650 0 |a Autonomy (Philosophy)  |z Latin America. 
650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |z Latin America  |x Politics and government. 
650 0 |a Hope  |x Political aspects  |z Latin America. 
650 0 |a Hope  |x Social aspects  |z Latin America. 
650 0 |a Political participation  |z Latin America. 
991 |a 2014-12-17 
992 |a Created by fiwi, 17/12/2014. Updated by gewh, 17/03/2015. 
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