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Book SynopsisThe Anomie of the Earth's contributors explore the convergences between Italian Marxist autonomic theory and Latin American decolonial thinking. They reject Carl Schmitt's formulation of a universalized world order based on the Western tenets of law and property and discuss the possibilities of locally organized and autonomous self-government.
Trade Review"Luisetti, Pickles, and Kaiser have put together a provocative collection of essays determined to identify and theorize an emerging anomic response to the neoliberal and globalizing tendencies of contemporary politics. . . . Its self-reflection makes
Anomie of the Earth an exemplar of the project of talking back to Western hegemony, while remaining mindful of the pitfalls of trying to do so from within." -- John Randolph LeBlanc * The Latin Americanist *
Table of ContentsForeword. Anomie, Resurgences, and De-Noming / Walter D. Mignolo vii
Introduction. Autonomy: Political Theory/Political Anthropology / Federico Luisetti, Wilson Kaiser, and John Pickles 1
Part I. Geographies of Autonomy
1. The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy / Joost De Bloois 25
2. Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization / Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman 44
Part II. Indigeneity and Commons
3. Enclosing the Enclosers: Autonomous Experiences from the Grassroots-beyond Development, Globalization and Postmodernity / Gustavo Esteva 71
4. Life and Nature "Otherwise": Challenges from the Abya-Yalean Andes / Catherine E. Walsh 93
5. Mind the Gap: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Antinomies of Empire / Jodi A. Byrd 119
6. The Enclosure of the Nomos: Appropriation and Conquest in the New World / Zac Zimmer 137
Part III. Forms of Life
7. Decontainment: The Collapse of the Katechon and the End of Hegemony / Gareth Williams 159
8. The Savage Ontology of Insurrection: Negativity, Life, and Anarchy / Benjamin Noys 174
9. Unreasonability, Style, and Pretiosity / Frans-Willem Korsten 192
10. Re-enchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons / Silvia Federici 202
Afterword. Resonances of the Common / Sandro Mezzadra 215
Bibliography 227
Contributors 247
Index 251
