Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Womens Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements (Critical Insurgencies)

"Other worlds here : honoring native women's writing in contemporary anarchist movements" examines the interaction of literature and radical social movement, exploring the limitations of contemporary anarchist politics through attentive engagement with native women's literatures. Tracing the rise of New Anarchism in the United States following protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999, interdisciplinary scholar Theresa Warburton argues that contemporary anarchist politics have not adequately accounted for the particularities of radical social movement in a settler colonial society. As a result, activists have replicated the structure of settlement within anarchist spaces. All is not lost, however. Rather than centering a critical indictment of contemporary anarchist politics, "Other worlds here" maintains that a defining characteristic of New Anarchism is its ability to adapt and transform. Through close readings of texts by native women authors, Warburton argues that anarchists must shift the paradigm that another world is possible to one that recognizes other worlds already here: stories, networks, and histories that lay out methods of building reciprocal relationships with the land and its people. Analyzing memoirs, poetry, and novels by writers including Deborah Miranda, Elissa Washuta, Heid E. Erdrich, Janet Rogers, and Leslie Marmon Silko, "Other worlds here" extends the study of Native women's literatures beyond ethnographic analysis of Native experience to advance a widely applicable, contemporary political critique Contents Introduction: Like a Moth to a Flame Part 1. Settler Anarchism 1. Battles of and in Seattle: Settler Anarchism in North America 2. “Tell Me Where to Go and I Will”: Memorialization and Commemoration in Two Native Women’s Memoirs Part 2. Relocating Gendered Violence 3. The Home from Which We Organize: Settlement, Feminism, and Gender in New Anarchism 4. “Some Elsewhere”: Poetic Transformations of American Monuments Part 3. The Limits of Anarchist Transnationalism 5. “My Nationhood Doesn’t Just Radiate Outwards”: Anarchist Transnationalism as Border Imperialism 6. “Where Ocean Herself Was Born”: Transpacific Currents in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony Conclusion: Other Worlds Here Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index __Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements____Other Worlds Here____Other Worlds Here__