Left Memes – Resistance, Ridicule, and Belonging in Times of the Internet

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents 1
3. Strategies 6
4. Beyond Authoritarianism – For an Anti-Fascism of the 21^st Century 12
5. The Art of Protest in Hong Kong 22
6. Not 30 Pesos, 30 Years! 30
7. Comuna de Cumming – 63 Days of Revolt 36
8. Visualizing Utopia – The Trojan Horses of the Bishan Commune 46
9. Singing in Dark Times 54
10. Sounds from Below – Protest in Times of Authoritarianism and the COVID-19 Pandemic 60
11. Songs for Free Syria and Regional Cross-Border Solidarity 66
12. From Solidarity to Anti-Capitalist Organizing – Globalizing Other Politics from Below and to the Left 74
13. Counter-Cartographies of Resistance – Exposing Everyday Authoritarianism in the Philippines 80
14. The Distributed Vertical Border 86
15. Life of Migrants on the Balkan Road to Europe – Selected Poems From a Migrant’s Diary of Resistance 90
16. Counterstrategies for Life 96
17. Marielle Franco Street Transcending Boundaries 102
18. The Art of Sustaining a Movement – Visual and Sonic Identity of the 2020/21 Strajk Kobiet Protests in Poland 108
19. Mother’s Story of Resistance 116
20. The Tarp Shed Occupations of Public Spaces 118
21. A Sea of Songs – The Paper Boats of Shaheen Bagh 122
22. To Feed Is to Resist – Verdurazos and the Struggle Toward Food Sovereignty 128
23. Marching Against Repression 134
24. Having a Territórios – The Beer That Supports Social Movements and Causes 140
25. The Watermelon Flag – Solidarity, Subversion, and Sumud 148
26. Left Memes – Resistance, Ridicule, and Belonging in Times of the Internet 152
27. 11 Theses and an Anti-Authoritarian Board Game 158
28. Collective Dreams on the Wall 166
29. Affective Counterstrategies and Heterotopic Interventions 172
30. Ecologías del Futuro – Science Fiction as Radical Imagination 180
31. Communicating Vessels in the Feminist City 186
32. Erasing Borders Around Our Skin – Painting an Image of Ourselves the Way We Want To Be Seen, Heard, Loved 194
33. Fighting Fear with Innocence – Contentious Symbolism in Socialist Poland 200
34. Who Gave the Order? – The Mural That Went Viral and Became a Common Good 206
35. Exclusion, Control, Appropriation – Collective Political Graffiti in the Neoliberal City 212
36. The Right to the City as Anti-Authoritarian Strategy – Reflections from Latin America and Beyond 218
37. Mapping From the Ground Up – Anti-Authoritarian Cartography in the Semi-Colony 228
38. Mapping Decolonial Berlin – Charting Pathways of the Relational Imagination 234
39. Experiments in Resistance – Decentering Through Radical Intersectionality and Editorial Politics 242
40. This Joke Is Getting Serious – Counter-Hegemonic Humour as Anti-Authoritarian Resistance: The Curious Case of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party 248
41. Shvemy Sewing Cooperative – Our Story Through the Activist Banners 254
42. Protesting to Maintain Production – Popular Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina 260
43. Mediterranean Commotions – From Turkey to Morocco and Beyond 266
44. LesStickers-teadores – For a Cuba From All, With All 272
45. Orthodox-Vaginal Control – Or How to “Steal” and Sabotage a Pro-Life Action 276
46. Naked Protesting – The Intersections of Gender During Counter-Movements 280
47. Other Feminisms: A Subversive Gift to the World 286
48. Upheaval on the Cloud – Countering the Authoritarian Gaze in the Iranian Uprisings 296
49. Scarves for Women’s Struggles in Argentina 306
50. A New World Beyond the Trench – Myanmar’s Fight Against Dictatorship 312
51. Sonic Strategies in the Palestinian Struggle – A Soundtrack of the May 2021 Uprising in Palestine 318
52. No Need to Be a Mathematician to Know Who You Can Count On – Rap Music as a Tool of Denunciation 324
53. Imagining Kurdistan – Drawing is an Act of Conscience 330
54. Rainbow of Resistance and Rebellion – Community Art in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation 338