Cover of Decolonizing Anarchism

Book 2011

Decolonizing Anarchism

3 readers

Publisher
AK Press
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Postcolonialism
  • South asia, social conditions
  • Anarchism
  • Decolonization
  • History
  • National liberation movements

Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective. Maia Ramnath also studies the anarchist vision of alternate society, which closely echoes the concept of total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological planes. This facilitates not only a reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism, but insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.