{"product_id":"constructing-worlds-otherwise-societies-in-movement-and-anticolonial-paths-in-latin-america-by-raul-zibechi","title":"Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America by Raúl Zibechi","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new collection from one of Latin America's most dynamic radical thinkers—in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConstructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of Latin America by one-dimensional, ethnocentric perspectives that permeate the North American left and block fundamental social change in the Global South. In a provocative mix of polemic and on-the-ground analysis, Raúl Zibechi argues that it is time for radicals in the Global North to learn from the people their governments have colonized and oppressed for centuries. Through a survey of the most marginalized voices across Latin America—feminists, the Indigenous, people of African descent, and inhabitants of urban favelas and shantytowns—he introduces the Anglo world to a range of critical perspectives and new forms of struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Zibechi, real change comes from “societies in movement,” the people already fighting for their survival using egalitarian and traditional models of world-building, without the state, without official representatives, and without vanguards of political experts. His book contributes to global geographies of autonomous and anti-state thinking, with Zibechi placing his work in conversation with the ideological theorist of Kurdish resistance, Abdullah Öcalan, for a rich and dynamic survey of global movements of decolonization. Now more urgent than ever, this translation by George Ygarza Quispe comes at a time when the global left—struggling to expand its vision in a time of climate chaos and rising authoritarianism—finds itself at an impasse, desperate to animate and renew its critical imaginary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52405151695129,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1882\/8385\/files\/81Xe9UJcUbL._SL1500.jpg?v=1779067270","url":"https:\/\/otherbooksla.com\/products\/constructing-worlds-otherwise-societies-in-movement-and-anticolonial-paths-in-latin-america-by-raul-zibechi","provider":"other books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}