Description
Daring and groundbreaking, Marina Sitrin explores how an economic crisis in Argentina spurred a peoples rebellion, leading to new forms of social organization and providing an instructive example for activists the world over.
Chapter
Argentina: a crack in history – 19 and 20 December 2001
From cracks to creation: the emergence of horizontal formations
Revolution with a small ‘r’
Challenging the contentious framework
1 A brief history of movements and repression in Argentina
HIJOS: an introduction to the movements
Revolutionary armed struggle: the 1960s–1970s
Peronism: the 1950s–1960s
Radical labor movements: 19th–early 20th centuries
2 From rupture to creation: new movements emerge
Rupturing ‘No te metas’ and fear
From a dignified worker to dignity
The formation of new solidarities: ‘El otro soy yo’
Practicing horizontalidad
Challenges to decision making within horizontalidad
Horizontalidad continues as a tool and goal
4 New subjectivities and affective politics
Protagonism, subjectivity, and a new language for politics
Decision making and affective politics: the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the feminist movement
The personal is political
5 Power and autonomy: against and beyond the state
6 Autogestión, territory, and alternative values
Conceptualizing autogestión
Organization of recuperated workplaces
Challenges to autogestión
Five specific recuperated workplace examples
Autogestión in the neighborhood assemblies
7 The state rises: incorporation, cooptation, and autonomy
What is a state without legitimacy?
Hegemony and social consensus
Money and services as control
The movements dance with dynamite
Conclusion: it’s a war, not a dance
8 Measuring success: affective or contentious politics?
Dreams, dignity, and a yardstick
We are the HIJOS of the 19th and 20th
A sociological framework to understand the movements and their success
Conclusions, implications, and practical applications
Everyday Revolutions
：Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina
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