The beginning chapters of this collection are an intro to or refresher on some concepts of anarchy, as well as pieces I’ve found particularly powerful.
This is followed by some anarchist historical context seemingly unfamiliar to many nowadays; some inspiring and some also relevant as cautionary examples of missteps referenced elsewhere in this book. From here, we turn back to gender and violence in both anarchist and anthropological materials, and in indigenous as well as colonial cultures, looking also at ‘animism’. Next, some deeper treatment of indigenous ‘ontologies’ both against the state and in parallel or formative of the state, as well as deeper examinations of gender and violence in the same context. The ideas of Amerindian perspectivism are introduced and explored, putting some previous topics into relation and extending the discussion into broader and more meta territory; with the previously established basis of practical action fresh in the mind urging past this mostly academic level, while the contextual insights into what is specific to indigenous and colonial settings calls into question some of the anarchist material, affirms others, and points to new ground for anarchic engagement. We close with some insurgent strategy (including about how prescriptive strategy itself is often unstrategic). I hope you draw and enact your own, ever-spiraling, (in)conclusions.