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'Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action' invites cooperative practitioners, members of artist collectives, activists engaged in affinity groups, and academics working within anarchism, Marxisms, critical theory, indigenism, feminism, or other traditions, to submit either theoretical papers or case studies that analyze and demonstrate how cooperation, cooperativism, or cooperatives are being re-imagined by groups committed to sustainable alternatives to neoliberalism and the capitalist nation-state.
Brazil’s landless peasants’ movements, Argentina’s worker-recuperated enterprises, the Zapatistas and other indigenous autonomist movements around the world, North America’s intentional communities and housing cooperatives, Europe’s myriad autonomous social centres and squats... These are examples of groups practicing both reclaimed and new cooperative values of autonomy, direct-democracy, self-reliance, equity, and solidarity. We might call these experiments that both resist neoliberal enclosure yet also prefigure different forms of economic organization 'the new cooperativism.' What is its genealogy? What do these new cooperativist experiments look like? Where are they to be found within today’s neoliberal global reality?
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