Alien, Subversive, Recalcitrant: Migrants, Exiles, and Cultural Brokers in Latin American Transnational Anarchist Movements, 1880s-1940s

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel examines anarchist transnational politics in Latin America during the first wave of capitalist globalization in which political radicals joined the flow of capital and labor. The panel illustrates how migrants, exiles, and cultural brokers influenced the development of anarchism while forging hybrid political cultures, promoting international solidarities, and developing anarchist networks. Panelists explore transnational flows between Spain and Argentina, between Chile, Argentina and Peru, between Mexico and Texas, within a Pan-American anarchist congress, and as theme of exile. The panel maps anarchist history in the Americas and how that history is best understood within translocal and transnational frameworks.

Sub Track

• Transnationalism and Globalization

Chair

• Kirwin R Shaffer, Penn State University

Individual Presentations

• Anarchist Migrations and Transatlantic Homelands in Spain and Argentina, 1880-1940 - James A Baer, Northern Virginia Community College

• Displacement: on anarchist exile - Raymond B Craib, Cornell University

• From Tampico, to Texas, and beyond: The transnational networks of feminism and anarchism of Caritina Piña, 1920-1940 - Sonia Hernandez, Texas A&M University

• Argentine and Chilean Anarchist Exiles and the Making of Peru’s Anarchist Movement, 1900-1919 - Steven J Hirsch, Washington University in St. Louis

• International Solidarities and Militant Soul-Searching in Classical Latin American Anarchism’s Twilight: The American Continental Workers’ Association (ACAT) in 1929 - Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University

Discussant

• Kirwin R Shaffer, Penn State University