Contra plantation, prison, and capitalist annihilation: collective struggle, social reproduction, and the co-creation of lifegiving worlds

Gahman, Levi (2020) Contra plantation, prison, and capitalist annihilation: collective struggle, social reproduction, and the co-creation of lifegiving worlds. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 47 (3). pp. 503-524.

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Abstract

This article demonstrates that the quotidian domain of social reproduction is fertile ground, and a crucial political terrain upon which to struggle, for revolutionary change. I propose that the Zapatistas are inspiration par excellence of decolonization, democracy, and a social movement that is co-creating the emancipatory politics, gender just social relations, and lifegiving culture its members desire. Additionally, I illustrate how anti-capitalist resistance, autonomy, mutual aid, and Indigenous worldviews can galvanize pluralistic critical mass, empower communities, animate pathways out of structural violence, transform worlds, and, ultimately, imbue the everyday realities in which people live and work with meaning and purpose.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	autonomy, resistance, decolonization, social reproduction, Zapatista
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2019 10:28
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:01
DOI:	10.1080/03066150.2019.1572606
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3033283