Without Masters

Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk

AvLivia K. Stone

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestiÓn as it traveled around the world in the twentieth century and came to be popularized in Mexico City in the early 2000s. A political term that first arose in 1962 Algeria traveled across continents until it landed in Mexico City’s anarcho-punk scene in the 1980s, where it eventually came to be associated more with zines, music, art, and Zapatismo than with its origins in anarchism or syndicalism. Without Masters brings the true history of autogestiÓn and the quiet radicalism of Mexico City’s autogestive collectives to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Along the way, Stone brings together diverse materials, from punk zines and political fliers to Beat novels and Zapatista parables, that tell an alternate history of radical politics throughout the world in the second half of the twentieth century which serves as a reminder of Mexico’s formative role in the creation of modern social theory.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-29
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478034094

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Livia K. Stone is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University and author of Atenco Lives!: Filmmaking and Popular Struggle in Mexico.

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“Without Masters is an extraordinary genealogy that traces autogestión from the Algerian revolution through Mexico’s anarcho-punk scene, student movements, and Zapatismo. A radically novel contribution to political praxis, it’s also a how-to manual for the punks among us that refuse those ridiculously stubborn dichotomies of 'low' culture versus ‘high’; theory, South versus North, and activist versus academic trajectories.”—Shane Greene, author of, Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality“Foregrounding the importance of Mexican social movements to the global left, Livia K. Stone weaves together Mexican punk, the 1999 student strike, and the Zapatistas to demonstrate how the legacy of 1968 leftist politics has been transformed into ‘autogestion,’ a form of social movement that is radically horizontal, dispensing with the nationalism and masculinism to posit new models for political change.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

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Introduction 11. Getting the History Right 272. Ubiquitous and Invisible Mexico City 53Interlude. El Chopo 813. Punk and Zapatismo 87Interlude. It All Starts with a Strike 1234. The Strike 127Interlude. What Do We Have Left? 1615. Colectivos Autogestivos 163Conclusions 191Acknowledgments 203Notes 205References 215Index 227