Modern Marronage: Black Anarchism as a Black Atlantic Tradition, 1969-1989.

现代婚姻：作为大西洋黑人传统的黑人无政府主义，1969-1989。

• 批准号: 2750997
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2750997
• 关键词: Modern; Marronage; Black; Anarchism; Atlantic

My thesis explores a distinct and oft unrecognised historical force and identity: black anarchism. Continuing and expanding upon my MPhil research, the chief concern of my DPhil is to historicise and comprehend the presence of radical libertarian ideologies and actions in black diasporic communities in the 1970s and 1980s. My DPhil research is motivated by my desire to widen comprehensions of the 'black radical tradition' to encompass anarchism. When engaging with the existing historiography of anarchism and the black radical tradition one finds two distinct discourses with minimal points of overlap. My engagement with the intertwined narratives of both illustrates a contrasting historical reality, allowing me to accentuate an almost unexamined tradition within a tradition: a strain of black radicalism engaged in practices and rhetoric elsewhere understood as anarchism. Moreover, the narratives I am interrogating have seldom found form outside of the master narrative of blackness or anti-racism in historiography. By framing black radical narratives in the specific context of anarchic practice and ideology, I will illuminate their nuances as well as the underappreciated breadth of black activism. Through emphasising the appeal and invocation of anarchism within black radicalism, I will be in direct dialogue with recent and influential work on black radical politics such as Rob Water's Thinking Black, James G. Cantres' Blackening Britain, and Keisha Blaine's Set the World on Fire, challenging and contributing to historiographical trends which are yet to consider black anarchism's existence or significance. I offer black anarchism not as a rigid or closed political identity, but, instead, as a historical phenomenon of black individuals and communities using anarchistic practices, principles, and rhetoric in search of black liberation. Although the chosen timeframe is not exhaustive of this tradition, it does highlight a crucial moment of black radical politics. Taking form in Black Power's wake, along with black feminism's growing purchase, and the renewed global reach of Rastafarianism, black anarchism finds itself entangled in the engendering of, and responses to, numerous conjunctural moments in the 1970s and 1980s. My thesis will centre the temporal and spatial factors that influenced black anarchism's invocation and efficacy and explore how black lived experience moulded its articulation. There are two political genealogies this research should alter: how is anarchism, as a political theory and historical phenomenon, modified by the inclusion of black radical history? And, correspondingly, how do these narratives of anarchism adjust the history of black radicalism?To answer these questions, I will utilise case studies found at the margins of black history and beyond the radar of anarchist history. For example, one chapter will focus on the establishment of black communes in London, primarily the 'Black House', led by Trinidadian born Black Power activist Michael X. This offers a window into Black Power's proximity to anarchism and will give a hitherto neglected narrative the archival attention it warrants. I will then turn to the intricacies of radical black feminist political action throughout the period. Olive Morris' pivotal involvement in the squatters' movement in the 1970s, for instance, begins to illustrate the relationship between anarchist activities and black women's radical politics. Crossing the Atlantic, I will dedicate a chapter to the Philadelphia black revolutionary group MOVE, contextualising their anarcho-primitivist black identity. The anarchy of Caribbean consciousness will comprise a through-line of my thesis, as I ask how radical Caribbean identities, such as Rastafarianism, conceived of (and dealt with) the state and the influence this had throughout the diaspora. These four constitutive elements of my thesis are tied together not by a teleological historical assumption, but rather the ma

我的论文探讨了一种独特的、经常被忽视的历史力量和身份：黑人无政府主义。继续并扩展我的哲学博士研究，我的哲学博士主要关注的是将20世纪70年代和80年代黑人流散社区中激进自由主义意识形态和行动的存在历史化和理解。我的博士研究的动机是我希望扩大对“黑人激进传统”的理解，以涵盖无政府主义。当研究现存的无政府主义和黑人激进传统的史学时，我们会发现两种截然不同的话语有最小的重叠点。我对两者交织在一起的叙述的参与说明了一个对比鲜明的历史现实，让我强调了一个传统中几乎未经审查的传统：一种黑人激进主义的实践和修辞，在其他地方被理解为无政府主义。此外，我所询问的叙述很少在历史编纂中黑人或反种族主义的主要叙述之外找到形式。通过在无政府主义实践和意识形态的特定背景下构建黑人激进叙事，我将阐明它们的细微差别以及被低估的黑人激进主义的广度。通过强调黑人激进主义中无政府主义的吸引力和召唤，我将与最近有影响力的黑人激进政治作品进行直接对话，如罗布·沃特的《思考黑人》，詹姆斯·g·坎特斯的《英国变黑》，以及凯莎·布莱恩的《点燃世界》，挑战并促进了尚未考虑黑人无政府主义存在或意义的历史编纂趋势。我提出黑人无政府主义不是作为一种僵化或封闭的政治身份，而是作为一种历史现象，黑人个人和社区使用无政府主义的实践、原则和修辞来寻求黑人的解放。虽然所选择的时间框架并没有完全体现这一传统，但它确实突出了黑人激进政治的关键时刻。黑人无政府主义形成于黑人权力运动之后，伴随着黑人女权主义的日益壮大，以及拉斯塔法里教（Rastafarianism）在全球范围内的重新传播，黑人无政府主义发现自己卷入了20世纪70年代和80年代许多关键时刻的产生和回应之中。我的论文将集中于影响黑人无政府主义的调用和效力的时间和空间因素，并探讨黑人的生活经历如何塑造其表达。这一研究应该改变两种政治谱系：无政府主义作为一种政治理论和历史现象，如何被黑人激进历史的纳入所修正？相应地，这些无政府主义的叙述是如何调整黑人激进主义的历史的？为了回答这些问题，我将利用在黑人历史边缘和无政府主义历史之外发现的案例研究。例如，有一章将重点放在伦敦黑人公社的建立上，主要是由特立尼达出生的黑人权力活动家迈克尔·x领导的“黑屋”。这为黑人权力接近无政府主义提供了一个窗口，并将给予迄今为止被忽视的叙述它所需要的档案关注。然后我会讲到这一时期激进黑人女权主义政治行动的复杂性。例如，奥丽芙·莫里斯在20世纪70年代参与了寮屋运动，这开始说明无政府主义活动与黑人妇女激进政治之间的关系。跨过大西洋，我将用一章来介绍费城黑人革命组织MOVE，将他们的无政府原始主义黑人身份置于背景中。加勒比意识的无政府状态将贯穿我的论文，因为我想问激进的加勒比身份，如拉斯塔法里，是如何构想（和处理）国家的，以及它对散居海外的人的影响。我的论文的这四个构成要素不是由目的论的历史假设联系在一起的，而是由历史假设联系在一起的