A
new collection from one of Latin America's most dynamic radical
thinkers--in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.
Constructing 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 the 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.
For 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 it's vision in a time of
climate chaos and rising authoritarianism--finds itself at an
impasse, desperate to animate and renew its critical imaginary.
