Society despite the state : reimagining geographies of order / Anthony Ince and Gerónimo Barrera de laTorre.

Author/creator Ince, Anthony author.
Other author Barrera de la Torre, Gerónimo, author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; Las Vegas, NV : Pluto Press, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Description202 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Reimagining geographies of order
SeriesRadical geography
Radical geography. ^A1368813
Contents Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Threads -- 1. The Anti-authoritarian Family -- Vignette I: Counterfactual Geographies of the State -- 2. Threads of the State -- 3. Myths of the State -- Vignette II: We are the Romans -- Part II: Myths -- 4. Statist Timescapes -- Vignette III: Are We Afraid of Ruins? -- 5. Naturalising the State -- 6. Un/making Order -- Part III: Horizons -- Vignette IV: A Conversation Across/Beyond/Despite Worlds -- 7. Seeking Post-statist Horizons -- Notes -- References -- Index
Abstract The logic of the state has come to define social and spatial relations, embedding itself into our understandings of the world and our place in it. Anthony Ince and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre challenge this logic as the central pivot around which knowledge and life orbit, by exposing its vulnerabilities, contradictions and, crucially, alternatives. Society Despite the State disrupts the dominance of state-centred ways of thinking by presenting a radical political geography approach inspired by anarchist thought and practice. The book draws on a broad range of voices that have affinities with Western anarchism but also exceed it. This book challenges radicals and scholars to confront and understand the state through a way of seeing and a set of intellectual tools that the authors call 'post-statism'. In de-centring the state's logics and ways of operating, the authors incorporate a variety of threads to identify alternative ways to understand and challenge statism's effects on our political imaginations.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9780745341248
ISBN0745341241 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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