Kirwin R. Shaffer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037641
- eISBN:
- 9780252094903
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037641.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This book examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that ...
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This book examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa, Florida, and New York City, the book illustrates how anarchists linked their struggle to the broader international anarchist struggles against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. Their groups, plays, fiction, speeches, and press accounts—as well as the newspapers that they published—were central in helping to develop an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man's-land, neither an official U.S. colony or state nor an independent country. Anarchism in Puerto Rico was a unique entity in the movement's history. The anarchists expressed their concerns and visions through their own brand of cultural politics, which was directed against Puerto Rican and U.S. colonial rulers in order to promote an antiauthoritarian spirit and countercultural struggle over how the island was being run and the future directions that it should pursue. Alongside this was anticlericalism against the Roman Catholic Church.Less
This book examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa, Florida, and New York City, the book illustrates how anarchists linked their struggle to the broader international anarchist struggles against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. Their groups, plays, fiction, speeches, and press accounts—as well as the newspapers that they published—were central in helping to develop an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man's-land, neither an official U.S. colony or state nor an independent country. Anarchism in Puerto Rico was a unique entity in the movement's history. The anarchists expressed their concerns and visions through their own brand of cultural politics, which was directed against Puerto Rican and U.S. colonial rulers in order to promote an antiauthoritarian spirit and countercultural struggle over how the island was being run and the future directions that it should pursue. Alongside this was anticlericalism against the Roman Catholic Church.
Éléonore Lépinard
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- March 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190077150
- eISBN:
- 9780190077198
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190077150.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter retraces the Islamic veiling debates in France and Quebec, and how feminist organizations engaged in them in both contexts. It explains why intersectional coalitions in the context of ...
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This chapter retraces the Islamic veiling debates in France and Quebec, and how feminist organizations engaged in them in both contexts. It explains why intersectional coalitions in the context of heated debates over secularism and the hijab proved possible in Quebec, while they vastly failed in France. In particular, it underlines the specificity of intersectional politics over Islam that uses feminist discourses on female autonomy and emancipation to exclude “improper” subjects from the feminist project. Documenting the feminist debates over Islamic veiling in France and Quebec, the chapter shows that the strength of racialized women’s self-organizing plays a crucial role in the possibility of forging and sustaining coalitions that remain inclusive and critical of femonationalist discourses. Feminist coalitions’ previous history with antiracism also matters when it comes to their capacity to resist femonationalist discourses.Less
This chapter retraces the Islamic veiling debates in France and Quebec, and how feminist organizations engaged in them in both contexts. It explains why intersectional coalitions in the context of heated debates over secularism and the hijab proved possible in Quebec, while they vastly failed in France. In particular, it underlines the specificity of intersectional politics over Islam that uses feminist discourses on female autonomy and emancipation to exclude “improper” subjects from the feminist project. Documenting the feminist debates over Islamic veiling in France and Quebec, the chapter shows that the strength of racialized women’s self-organizing plays a crucial role in the possibility of forging and sustaining coalitions that remain inclusive and critical of femonationalist discourses. Feminist coalitions’ previous history with antiracism also matters when it comes to their capacity to resist femonationalist discourses.
Dan Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033556
- eISBN:
- 9780813038353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033556.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter extends the previous chapter's argument by integrating Hemingway's brief and not wholly persuasive conversion to the radical Left in the mid-1930s into his disdain for Roosevelt's New ...
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This chapter extends the previous chapter's argument by integrating Hemingway's brief and not wholly persuasive conversion to the radical Left in the mid-1930s into his disdain for Roosevelt's New Deal. During the Depression decade, critics, particularly those on the Left, savaged Hemingway for his alleged indifference to the social catastrophe proceeding around him. Yet Hemingway's work reflects an artist who, though primarily concerned with perfecting his craft and following his own vision, was not indifferent to events or necessarily reluctant to comment on them. His own traditional background and libertarian instincts prompted him to condemn the social welfare schemes of the New Deal, examples of which he witnessed in Key West.Less
This chapter extends the previous chapter's argument by integrating Hemingway's brief and not wholly persuasive conversion to the radical Left in the mid-1930s into his disdain for Roosevelt's New Deal. During the Depression decade, critics, particularly those on the Left, savaged Hemingway for his alleged indifference to the social catastrophe proceeding around him. Yet Hemingway's work reflects an artist who, though primarily concerned with perfecting his craft and following his own vision, was not indifferent to events or necessarily reluctant to comment on them. His own traditional background and libertarian instincts prompted him to condemn the social welfare schemes of the New Deal, examples of which he witnessed in Key West.
Andrew Ryder
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529200515
- eISBN:
- 9781529200560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529200515.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
The chapter gives an overview of the strategy of Labour in response to Brexit by detailing the words and action of key Labour figues in the wake of the referendum. Labour’s response to Brexit and ...
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The chapter gives an overview of the strategy of Labour in response to Brexit by detailing the words and action of key Labour figues in the wake of the referendum. Labour’s response to Brexit and course of developments between 2016 and 2019 is a story, as with the Conservative Party, of paradigm change, tension and struggle between the different strands and traditions of a party in a state of flux. The chapter sets out a typology: The Lexiteers – radical socialists who saw Brexit as part of the socialist transformation of Britain but included centrists who felt Britain must exit a federalist project and respect the referendum result. In contrast Labour Europhiles wished to retain close links with Europe or even retain full membership and were broadly drawn from the centrist strands of the party. A third strand were the Radical Left Europhiles who generally supported Corbyn the Labour leader but included soft left factions, they favoured remaining in the EU and working for radical reform in Europe. A policy of ambiguity was employed to maintain unity between these diverging groups. Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Tony Blair are among the personalities that feature in the discussion.Less
The chapter gives an overview of the strategy of Labour in response to Brexit by detailing the words and action of key Labour figues in the wake of the referendum. Labour’s response to Brexit and course of developments between 2016 and 2019 is a story, as with the Conservative Party, of paradigm change, tension and struggle between the different strands and traditions of a party in a state of flux. The chapter sets out a typology: The Lexiteers – radical socialists who saw Brexit as part of the socialist transformation of Britain but included centrists who felt Britain must exit a federalist project and respect the referendum result. In contrast Labour Europhiles wished to retain close links with Europe or even retain full membership and were broadly drawn from the centrist strands of the party. A third strand were the Radical Left Europhiles who generally supported Corbyn the Labour leader but included soft left factions, they favoured remaining in the EU and working for radical reform in Europe. A policy of ambiguity was employed to maintain unity between these diverging groups. Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Tony Blair are among the personalities that feature in the discussion.
