Beyond Molotovs – A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

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• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783837670554
• eBook ISBN: 9783839470558
• Topic: Politique et relations internationales
• Subtopic: Art général

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 Duràn Matute, and Julieta Mira.

Table of contents

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