Giornata contro 41 bis: Activism, Resistance, and the ARCI Network
by Dr Nadia (Nedia) Buyse and Dr David Deacon
This paper surveys the actions undertaken by Circola Arci, an Italian anti-fascist network of cultural venues and practitioners, during a day of action against the ‘41bis’ supermax prisons. This day of action was undertaken in solidarity with imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito. The authors interviewed Arci organisers, venues and artists about how solidarity with Cospito aligned to their own ethos and ideologies. They outline some of the factors influencing Arci’s renewed cultural and political importance in the 2020s.
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The Alternative and the Planetary as Told Through La Janda Wetland (Cádiz,
Spain)
by Malcolm James
This paper develops the concepts of the ‘alternative’, from Raymond Williams, and the ‘planetary’, from Édouard Glissant, to help attune the former towards the ecological. It takes La Janda wetland, in the south of Spain, as a case study and extends that study through the story of a local wildlife expert, Paco Jimenez. James understands Jimenez’s sustained knowledge and care for the wetland as a form of alternative ecological knowledge. He argues that it is vital to cultivate such knowledge alongside activist campaigns to restore La Janda.
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