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Building the Radical Identity (eBook, ePUB)

The Diffusion of the Ideological Framework of the New Left

Beschreibung

The New Left was a broad, heterogeneous, transnational, anti-systemic movement of movements which pursued the radical transformation of power structures during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Its activists opposed all forms of oppression - class, racial, gender and so forth - and strove for the redistribution of power on a global scale. Their ideas fuelled the intense cycles of protest of the period and allowed for symbolically connecting movements all over the world.

This book reconstructs the dissemination of the characteristic ideas and traits of the New Left by analysing its most prominent magazines and journals. Through the analysis of US, European and Latin American publications, it reveals how the ideological framework of the New Left was conceived and disseminated by a series of critical communities of activists and intellectuals who communicated and debated across borders. The result of the joint efforts of a group of eminent specialists and young scholars from seven different countries, this pioneering work contributes valuable empirical evidence to the study of the processes of intellectual change occurring throughout the twentieth century.

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Autor

Eduardo Rey Tristán is full professor of History of Latin America at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is the author of La izquierda revolucionaria uruguaya, 1955-1973 (2006) and coeditor of Latin American Guerrilla Movements. Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020) and Revolutionary Violence and the New Left. Transnational Perspectives (2017). Alberto Martín Álvarez is distinguished professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Girona, Spain, is coeditor of Toward a Global History of Latin Americäs Revolutionary Left (2021), Latin American Guerrilla Movements. Origins, Evolution, Outcomes (2020) and Revolutionary Violence and the New Left. Transnational Perspectives (2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800796966
• Artikelnr.: 65840383

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«Building the Radical Identity meticulously weaves a tapestry portraying the mutual impact of magazines, publishing houses and movements on three continents during the Global Sixties. By focusing on transnational relationships of theory and practice, the authors demonstrate that the New Left was much more than spontaneously generated popular insurgencies, that the international revolutionary movement had well developed theoretical roots and visions, and that its impact went far beyond temporal boundaries. The authors transform the New Left's quest to radically reconstruct all aspects of social and political life from historical fact to future promise. Unafraid neither to reexamine violent opposition to reactionary regimes nor to subject

the1960s corpus of ideas to critical analysis, this book is must reading for revolutionaries today.» (George Katsiaficas, author of The Global Imagination of 1968, Asia's Unknown Uprisings, and coeditor with Kathleen Cleaver of Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party.)

«At a time when, across the world, economic and political crises are driving new generations to seek out new radical ideas, but also even to reconsider some older radicalisms, this book's appearance is highly pertinent, reminding us of the global impact of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s, i.e., a new way of thinking which posed an intellectual and ideological challenge to the sterile interpretations offered by both social democracy and Soviet-style communism. The collection brings us several eloquent examples of the force of that challenge, in particular in the Third World, where it contributed profoundly to shaping new definitions and self-definitions of the postcolonial world, including the genesis of today's notion of the Global South. The several authors, experts in their particular fields, combine to give us a rich and revealing picture of the wide range of thinking characterising what was then a complex phenomenon.» (Antoni Kapcia, Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham and author of Cuba: Island of Dreams and Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties.)

«For those seeking to understand the complex history of the Global Sixties, this collection will be indispensable. Radical journals with Tricontinental and North/South readerships were the main transmission belts of the New Left, and they are examined here with great assiduity.» (Van Gosse, Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College and author of Rethinking the New Left. An Interpretative History.)