Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 356 pp.
Contains many illustrations
Series: Edition Politik, 165
ISBN 978-3-8394-7055-8 (pdf); 978-3-8376-7055-4 (print)
"Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies. From the collective art and aesthetics of feminist movements in India, Iran, Mexico, and Poland, to sewing collectives, subversive internet art in Hong Kong, and even anti-authoritarian board games, the contributions open new perspectives on moments of resistance, subversion, and creation. Indeed, the handbook itself is a work of anti-authoritarian art. The editors behind the »International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies« and »kollektiv orangotango« are Aurel Eschmann, Börries Nehe, Nico Baumgarten, Paul Schweizer, Severin Halder, Ailynn Torres Santana, Inés Duràn Matute, and Julieta Mira." (Publisher description)
Beyond Authoritarianism – For an Anti-Fascism of the 21st Century / Aurel Eschmann, Börries Nehe, 12
The Art of Protest in Hong Kong / Sophie Mak, 22
Not 30 Pesos, 30 Years! [Chile] / Erik Thurman, 30
Comuna de Cumming – 63 Days of Revolt [Chile] / montoneras, OPA Kolektiva, Taller Fábrika, Loica, @_manu_li, 36
Visualizing Utopia – The Trojan Horses of the Bishan Commune [China] / Mai Corlin Frederiksen, 46
Singing in Dark Times [Turkey] / BounSergi Collective, 54
Sounds from Below – Protest in Times of Authoritarianism and the COVID-19 Pandemic [Turkey] / Begüm Özden Firat, 60
Songs for Free Syria and Regional Cross-Border Solidarity / Joey Ayoub, 66
From Solidarity to Anti-Capitalist Organizing – Globalizing Other Politics from Below and to the Left [Mexico] / Inés Durán Matute, Rocío Moreno, 74
Counter-Cartographies of Resistance – Exposing Everyday Authoritarianism in the Philippines / Arnisson Andre Ortega, Bernardino Dela Cruz, Cian Dayrit, Ervic Angeles, Kristian Karlo Saguin, Leonardo Miguel Garcia, Ma. Simeona Martinez, Mylene T. De Guzman, Yany Lopez, Counter-Mapping PH Collective, 80
The Distributed Vertical Border / Pedro Ceñal Murga, 86
Life of Migrants on the Balkan Road to Europe – Selected Poems From a Migrant’s Diary of Resistance / A. Nana, Saša Hajzler, unknown/untraceable, 90
Counterstrategies for Life / Eva von Redecker, 96
Marielle Franco Street Transcending Boundaries [Brazil]/ Anielle Franco, Luna Costa, Marcelle Decothé, Rafael Rezende, 102
The Art of Sustaining a Movement – Visual and Sonic Identity of the 2020/21 Strajk Kobiet Protests in Poland / Hanna Grześkiewicz, 108
Mother’s Story of Resistance / Gertrude Malizeni, 116
The Tarp Shed Occupations of Public Spaces [India] / Simeen Anjum, Sana Sheikh, 118
A Sea of Songs – The Paper Boats of Shaheen Bagh [India] / Arushi Vats, 122
To Feed Is to Resist – Verdurazos and the Struggle Toward Food Sovereignty [Argentina] / Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Tierra, 128
Marching Against Repression [Ecuador] / Manuel Bayón Jiménez, Samantha Garrido Arce, 134
Having a Territórios – The Beer That Supports Social Movements and Causes [Brazil] / Caroline Maldaner Jacobi, Igor Dalla Vecchia, 140
The Watermelon Flag – Solidarity, Subversion, and Sumud [Palestine] / Chrisoula Lionis, Khaled Hourani, 148
Left Memes – Resistance, Ridicule, and Belonging in Times of the Internet / Fabio Braun Carrasco, 152
11 Theses and an Anti-Authoritarian Board Game / Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Max Haiven, A.T. Kingsmith, 158
Collective Dreams on the Wall [Germany] / Aylin Kuryel, 166
Affective Counterstrategies and Heterotopic Interventions / Gustavo Robles, 172
Ecologías del Futuro – Science Fiction as Radical Imagination / Francesca Cogni, Tuline Gülgönen, 180
Communicating Vessels in the Feminist City [Mexico] / Ana Álvarez, 186
Erasing Borders Around Our Skin – Painting an Image of Ourselves the Way We Want To Be Seen, Heard, Loved [India] / Gayatri Ganju, Fearless Collective, 194
Fighting Fear with Innocence – Contentious Symbolism in Socialist Poland / Lucie Hunter, 200
Who Gave the Order? The Mural That Went Viral and Became a Common Good [Colombia] / Nicole Jullian, 206
Exclusion, Control, Appropriation – Collective Political Graffiti in the Neoliberal City / Reclaim Your City Network, 212
The Right to the City as Anti-Authoritarian Strategy – Reflections from Latin America and Beyond / Lorena Zárate, 218
Mapping From the Ground Up – Anti-Authoritarian Cartography in the Semi-Colony [Philippines] / Cian Dayrit, 228
Mapping Decolonial Berlin – Charting Pathways of the Relational Imagination [Germany] / Moses März, 234
Experiments in Resistance – Decentering Through Radical Intersectionality and Editorial Politics / G, Pragati, Mrudula, Vanangamudi, Nangsel, Shruty, PS, Ankush, Abhishek, Sarvpriya, Paritosh, Randeep, Nav, 242
This Joke Is Getting Serious – Counter-Hegemonic Humour as Anti-Authoritarian Resistance: The Curious Case of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party / Gabriella Sesti Ossèo, Elisa Bochicchio, 248
Shvemy Sewing Cooperative – Our Story Through the Activist Banners / Tonya Melnyk, Ania Tereshkina, Masha Lukianova, Olesia Panova, Anastasia Makarenko, Vadim Lurie, Sergey Yugov, Vlad Lemm, 254
Protesting to Maintain Production – Popular Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Damir Arsenijević, 260
Mediterranean Commotions – From Turkey to Morocco and Beyond / Javier Toscano, 266
LesStickers-teadores – For a Cuba From All, With All / Plataforma 11M, 272
Orthodox-Vaginal Control – Or How to “Steal” and Sabotage a Pro-Life Action / Lolja Nordic, Dave Frenkel, 276
Naked Protesting – The Intersections of Gender During Counter-Movements / Boniswa Khumalo, 280
Other Feminisms: A Subversive Gift to the World / Firoozeh Farvardin, 286
Upheaval on the Cloud – Countering the Authoritarian Gaze in the Iranian Uprisings / Nafis Fathollahzadeh, 296
Scarves for Women’s Struggles in Argentina / Julieta Mira, Germán Romeo Pena, 306
A New World Beyond the Trench – Myanmar’s Fight Against Dictatorship / K. Yang, 312
Sonic Strategies in the Palestinian Struggle – A Soundtrack of the May 2021 Uprising in Palestine / Christina Hazboun, Samar Hazboun, 318
No Need to Be a Mathematician to Know Who You Can Count On – Rap Music as a Tool of Denunciation / Ams Keuche, Tuline Gülgönen, 324
Imagining Kurdistan – Drawing is an Act of Conscience / Ercan Altuntaş, 330
Rainbow of Resistance and Rebellion – Community Art in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation [Mexico] / Francisco De Parres Gómez, 338
The Art of Protest in Hong Kong / Sophie Mak, 22
Not 30 Pesos, 30 Years! [Chile] / Erik Thurman, 30
Comuna de Cumming – 63 Days of Revolt [Chile] / montoneras, OPA Kolektiva, Taller Fábrika, Loica, @_manu_li, 36
Visualizing Utopia – The Trojan Horses of the Bishan Commune [China] / Mai Corlin Frederiksen, 46
Singing in Dark Times [Turkey] / BounSergi Collective, 54
Sounds from Below – Protest in Times of Authoritarianism and the COVID-19 Pandemic [Turkey] / Begüm Özden Firat, 60
Songs for Free Syria and Regional Cross-Border Solidarity / Joey Ayoub, 66
From Solidarity to Anti-Capitalist Organizing – Globalizing Other Politics from Below and to the Left [Mexico] / Inés Durán Matute, Rocío Moreno, 74
Counter-Cartographies of Resistance – Exposing Everyday Authoritarianism in the Philippines / Arnisson Andre Ortega, Bernardino Dela Cruz, Cian Dayrit, Ervic Angeles, Kristian Karlo Saguin, Leonardo Miguel Garcia, Ma. Simeona Martinez, Mylene T. De Guzman, Yany Lopez, Counter-Mapping PH Collective, 80
The Distributed Vertical Border / Pedro Ceñal Murga, 86
Life of Migrants on the Balkan Road to Europe – Selected Poems From a Migrant’s Diary of Resistance / A. Nana, Saša Hajzler, unknown/untraceable, 90
Counterstrategies for Life / Eva von Redecker, 96
Marielle Franco Street Transcending Boundaries [Brazil]/ Anielle Franco, Luna Costa, Marcelle Decothé, Rafael Rezende, 102
The Art of Sustaining a Movement – Visual and Sonic Identity of the 2020/21 Strajk Kobiet Protests in Poland / Hanna Grześkiewicz, 108
Mother’s Story of Resistance / Gertrude Malizeni, 116
The Tarp Shed Occupations of Public Spaces [India] / Simeen Anjum, Sana Sheikh, 118
A Sea of Songs – The Paper Boats of Shaheen Bagh [India] / Arushi Vats, 122
To Feed Is to Resist – Verdurazos and the Struggle Toward Food Sovereignty [Argentina] / Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Tierra, 128
Marching Against Repression [Ecuador] / Manuel Bayón Jiménez, Samantha Garrido Arce, 134
Having a Territórios – The Beer That Supports Social Movements and Causes [Brazil] / Caroline Maldaner Jacobi, Igor Dalla Vecchia, 140
The Watermelon Flag – Solidarity, Subversion, and Sumud [Palestine] / Chrisoula Lionis, Khaled Hourani, 148
Left Memes – Resistance, Ridicule, and Belonging in Times of the Internet / Fabio Braun Carrasco, 152
11 Theses and an Anti-Authoritarian Board Game / Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Max Haiven, A.T. Kingsmith, 158
Collective Dreams on the Wall [Germany] / Aylin Kuryel, 166
Affective Counterstrategies and Heterotopic Interventions / Gustavo Robles, 172
Ecologías del Futuro – Science Fiction as Radical Imagination / Francesca Cogni, Tuline Gülgönen, 180
Communicating Vessels in the Feminist City [Mexico] / Ana Álvarez, 186
Erasing Borders Around Our Skin – Painting an Image of Ourselves the Way We Want To Be Seen, Heard, Loved [India] / Gayatri Ganju, Fearless Collective, 194
Fighting Fear with Innocence – Contentious Symbolism in Socialist Poland / Lucie Hunter, 200
Who Gave the Order? The Mural That Went Viral and Became a Common Good [Colombia] / Nicole Jullian, 206
Exclusion, Control, Appropriation – Collective Political Graffiti in the Neoliberal City / Reclaim Your City Network, 212
The Right to the City as Anti-Authoritarian Strategy – Reflections from Latin America and Beyond / Lorena Zárate, 218
Mapping From the Ground Up – Anti-Authoritarian Cartography in the Semi-Colony [Philippines] / Cian Dayrit, 228
Mapping Decolonial Berlin – Charting Pathways of the Relational Imagination [Germany] / Moses März, 234
Experiments in Resistance – Decentering Through Radical Intersectionality and Editorial Politics / G, Pragati, Mrudula, Vanangamudi, Nangsel, Shruty, PS, Ankush, Abhishek, Sarvpriya, Paritosh, Randeep, Nav, 242
This Joke Is Getting Serious – Counter-Hegemonic Humour as Anti-Authoritarian Resistance: The Curious Case of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party / Gabriella Sesti Ossèo, Elisa Bochicchio, 248
Shvemy Sewing Cooperative – Our Story Through the Activist Banners / Tonya Melnyk, Ania Tereshkina, Masha Lukianova, Olesia Panova, Anastasia Makarenko, Vadim Lurie, Sergey Yugov, Vlad Lemm, 254
Protesting to Maintain Production – Popular Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Damir Arsenijević, 260
Mediterranean Commotions – From Turkey to Morocco and Beyond / Javier Toscano, 266
LesStickers-teadores – For a Cuba From All, With All / Plataforma 11M, 272
Orthodox-Vaginal Control – Or How to “Steal” and Sabotage a Pro-Life Action / Lolja Nordic, Dave Frenkel, 276
Naked Protesting – The Intersections of Gender During Counter-Movements / Boniswa Khumalo, 280
Other Feminisms: A Subversive Gift to the World / Firoozeh Farvardin, 286
Upheaval on the Cloud – Countering the Authoritarian Gaze in the Iranian Uprisings / Nafis Fathollahzadeh, 296
Scarves for Women’s Struggles in Argentina / Julieta Mira, Germán Romeo Pena, 306
A New World Beyond the Trench – Myanmar’s Fight Against Dictatorship / K. Yang, 312
Sonic Strategies in the Palestinian Struggle – A Soundtrack of the May 2021 Uprising in Palestine / Christina Hazboun, Samar Hazboun, 318
No Need to Be a Mathematician to Know Who You Can Count On – Rap Music as a Tool of Denunciation / Ams Keuche, Tuline Gülgönen, 324
Imagining Kurdistan – Drawing is an Act of Conscience / Ercan Altuntaş, 330
Rainbow of Resistance and Rebellion – Community Art in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation [Mexico] / Francisco De Parres Gómez, 338
