{"product_id":"politics-at-a-distance-from-the-state-radical-and-african-perspectives-9781629639437","title":"Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical change with capturing state power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e The collapse of statist projects from the 1970s fostered both neo-liberalism and a global crisis of left and working-class politics. But it also opened space for rediscovering democratic, society-centered and anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state. This resurgent alternative has influenced the Zapatistas in Mexico, Rojava in Syria, Occupy, and independent unions and struggles worldwide around austerity, land, and the city. Its lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism, philosophers like Alain Badiou, and popular praxis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pathbreaking volume helps recover this once sidelined politics, with a focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It includes a dossier of texts from a century of anarchists, syndicalists, radical unionists, and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa. Originating in an African summit of scholars, social movements, and anti-apartheid veterans, this \u003cbr\u003ebook also features a preface from John Holloway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVan Der Walt, Lucien:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucien van der Walt\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of Industrial and Economic Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. A prize-winning scholar, he is involved in labour education and has published and spoken widely. His main areas of research are anarchism and syndicalism, labour and left studies and history, and the political economy of neo-liberalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelliker, Kirk:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirk Helliker\u003c\/strong\u003e is a research professor in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa, as well as founder and director of the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies in the department. His main research interests are land reform, civil society and political transformation with particular reference to Zimbabwe. His books include the edited volumes \u003cem\u003eThe Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEveryday Crisis: Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe\u003c\/em\u003e, and the authored \u003cem\u003eFast Track Land Occupations in Zimbabwe in the Context of the Zvimurenga\u003c\/em\u003e, all in collaboration with Sandra Bhatasara and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolloway, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Holloway\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades in the Benemérita Universidad Autùnoma de Puebla, Mexico. He has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anticapitalist struggle. His book \u003cem\u003eChange the World Without Taking Power\u003c\/em\u003e has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate. His book \u003cem\u003eCrack Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2010) takes the argument further, suggesting that the only way in which we can think of revolution today is as the creation, expansion, multiplication, and confluence of cracks in capitalist domination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449604804882,"sku":"9781629639437","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_49dfddb8-0c27-4ffe-8f94-e6589dd8792e.jpg?v=1729745872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/politics-at-a-distance-from-the-state-radical-and-african-perspectives-9781629639437","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}