Join the Institute for Social Ecology for a reading group around Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America, by Raul Zibechi. We will meet Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern for seven weeks, beginning January 27.

ISE reading groups are open to all! No prior familiarity with social ecology is required. The book is available for purchase directly from the publisher in print and ebook format and at many independent bookstores.

Reading group schedule:

January 27: Translator’s Note, Preface, Introduction
February 3: Societies in Movement Opening Anticolonial Pathways
February 10: Challenging Critical Thought from Below
February 17: Betting on Diversity Means Rejecting Unity and Homogenization
February 24: Rethinking Transition with Societies in Movement
March 3: Cauca’s Indigenous Guard: Engines of Care and Transformative Change
March 10: Imaginary Dialogues with Öcalan: Updating Critical Thinking
March 17: Epilogue: EZLN Sowing Without Reaping

Book description:

Through a survey of the most marginalized voices across Latin America—feminists, the Indigenous, people of African descent, and inhabitants of urban favelas and rural towns—Zibechi introduces the Anglo world to a range of critical perspectives and new forms of struggle in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia. His book contributes to global geographies of autonomous and anti-state thinking, including that of the revolutionaries in Rojava and Abdullah Öcalan, ideological theorist of Kurdish resistance, for a rich and dynamic survey of movements of nonstate power. Constructing Worlds Otherwise comes at a time when the global left—struggling to expand its vision in an era of climate chaos and rising authoritarianism—finds itself at an impasse, desperate to animate and renew its critical imaginary.

Constructing Worlds Otherwise reading group

By Institute for Social Ecology

Constructing Worlds Otherwise reading group