Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

by International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (Editor), kollektiv orangotango (Editor)

Overview

Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies. From the collective art and aesthetics of feminist movements in India, Iran, Mexico, and Poland, to sewing collectives, subversive internet art in Hong Kong, and even anti-authoritarian board games, the contributions open new perspectives on moments of resistance, subversion, and creation. Indeed, the handbook itself is a work of anti-authoritarian art.

The editors behind the "International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies" and "kollektiv orangotango" are: Aurel Eschmann, Börries Nehe, Nico Baumgarten, Paul Schweizer, Severin Halder, Ailynn Torres Santana, Inés Durgaàn Matute, and Julieta Mira.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837670554
Publication date:	08/27/2024
Series:	Political Science
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 9.84(h) x (d)

About the Author

The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) is an initiative of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung that brings together scholar-activists from across the Global South to research the authoritarian Right and strategic responses from the Left.
kollektiv orangotango is a circle of critical geographers and friends who have been in coevolution since the 2000s. As popular educators, they strive for a collective horizontal production of knowledge; as militant scholars, they link practical interventions and theoretical reflection. They place their work at the service of emancipatory processes in youth clubs and community gardens, in schools and autonomous social centers, on park benches and in lecture halls, in favelas and in rural communities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter i
Contents 1
Strategies 6
Beyond Authoritarianism - For an Anti-Fascism of the 21st Century 12
The Art of Protest in Hong Kong 22
Not 30 Pesos, 30 Years! 30
Comuna de Cumming - 63 Days of Revolt 36
Visualizing Utopia - The Trojan Horses of the Bishan Commune 46
Singing in Dark Times 54
Sounds from Below - Protest in Times of Authoritarianism and the COVID-19 Pandemic 60
Songs for Free Syria and Regional Cross-Border Solidarity 66
From Solidarity to Anti-Capitalist Organizing - Globalizing Other Politics from Below and to the Left 74
Counter-Cartographies of Resistance - Exposing Everyday Authoritarianism in the Philippines 80
The Distributed Vertical Border 86
Life of Migrants on the Balkan Road to Europe - Selected Poems From a Migrant's Diary of Resistance 90
Counterstrategies for Life 96
Marielle Franco Street Transcending Boundaries 102
The Art of Sustaining a Movement - Visual and Sonic Identity of the 2020/21 Strajk Kobiet Protests in Poland 108
Mother's Story of Resistance 116
The Tarp Shed Occupations of Public Spaces 118
A Sea of Songs - The Paper Boats of Shaheen Bagh 122
To Feed Is to Resist - Verdurazos and the Struggle Toward Food Sovereignty 128
Marching Against Repression 134
Having a Territórios - The Beer That Supports Social Movements and Causes 140
The Watermelon Flag - Solidarity, Subversion, and Sumud 148
Left Memes - Resistance, Ridicule, and Belonging in Times of the Internet 152
11 Theses and an Anti-Authoritarian Board Game 158
Collective Dreams on the Wall 166
Affective Counterstrategies and Heterotopic Interventions 172
Ecologías del Futuro - Science Fiction as Radical Imagination 180
Communicating Vessels in the Feminist City 186
Erasing Borders Around Our Skin - Painting an Image of Ourselves the Way We Want To Be Seen, Heard, Loved 194
Fighting Fear with Innocence - Contentious Symbolism in Socialist Poland 200
Who Gave the Order? - The Mural That Went Viral and Became a Common Good 206
Exclusion, Control, Appropriation - Collective Political Graffiti in the Neoliberal City 212
The Right to the City as Anti-Authoritarian Strategy - Reflections from Latin America and Beyond 218
Mapping From the Ground Up - Anti-Authoritarian Cartography in the Semi-Colony 228
Mapping Decolonial Berlin - Charting Pathways of the Relational Imagination 234
Experiments in Resistance - Decentering Through Radical Intersectionality and Editorial Politics 242
This Joke Is Getting Serious - Counter-Hegemonic Humour as Anti-Authoritarian Resistance: The Curious Case of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party 248
Shvemy Sewing Cooperative - Our Story Through the Activist Banners 254
Protesting to Maintain Production - Popular Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina 260
Mediterranean Commotions - From Turkey to Morocco and Beyond 266
LesStickers-teadores - For a Cuba From All, With All 272
Orthodox-Vaginal Control - Or How to "Steal" and Sabotage a Pro-Life Action 276
Naked Protesting - The Intersections of Gender Durgaing Counter-Movements 280
Other Feminisms: A Subversive Gift to the World 286
Upheaval on the Cloud - Countering the Authoritarian Gaze in the Iranian Uprisings 296
Scarves for Women's Struggles in Argentina 306
A New World Beyond the Trench - Myanmar's Fight Against Dictatorship 312
Sonic Strategies in the Palestinian Struggle - A Soundtrack of the May 2021 Uprising in Palestine 318
No Need to Be a Mathematician to Know Who You Can Count On - Rap Music as a Tool of Denunciation 324
Imagining Kurdistan - Drawing is an Act of Conscience 330
Rainbow of Resistance and Rebellion - Community Art in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation 338