More Praise for Everyday Revolutions

‘Everyday Revolutions provides a richly detailed, insightful, and inspiring account of the full array of social movements that emerged out of the Argentine economic meltdown of late 2001 – a key, though oft-neglected, antecedent to the Occupy movements and other waves of mobilization currently sweeping the globe.’

Sonia E. Alvarez, author of Engendering Democracy in Brazil

‘Without arrogance, in a direct and simple way, Marina dares to challenge the prevailing categories and theories. She can do that well-rooted in the reality she observes and because she is involved in movements that are not only generating theory, but are themselves a theory, a new theory expressing a new reality. This is the book we need to begin to understand the new era of revolutionary change inaugurated by the Zapatistas in 1994 and now exploding everywhere.’

Gustavo Esteva, author of The Commune of Oaxaca

‘Everyday Revolutions is a book that speaks about us: of those who seek to explain the world from the inside; of those who intend to challenge and change it; in our struggles to produce autonomous spaces and collective ability to recapture political space. Looking at the recent history of some of the most interesting recent social movements, Everyday Revolutions speaks of things that are happening here and now.’

Ana Méndez de Andés, architect and urbanist, part of the research project Observatorio Metropolitano de Madrid and Traficantes de Sueños

‘Marina Sitrin delves deeply into the questions most books about movements avoid or simplify far too much, such as the question of production or the complex relation with the state. Everyday Revolutions could only have been written by a long-time activist and researcher such as Marina Sitrin, who knows about the challenges we face.’

Dario Azzellini, author of Partizipation, Arbeiterkontrolle und die Commune

‘Essential reading for those trying to understand or enact the global movement for horizontal democracy.’

Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End

‘Everyday Revolutions truly conveys not only what an affective politics is, but what this affective politics can do. Moving with the movements it both describes and analyses, this is not just a book, it is a companion on the journey through the worlds worth fighting for in the streets, squares, factories, fields, chat rooms and classrooms of our everyday lives.’

Emma Dowling, Queen Mary, University of London

‘A living history of a living revolution … Reading Everyday Revolutions we read of the emergence, the collective self-making, of new people. Beautiful!’

David Harvie, author, with The Free Association, of Moments of Excess

‘Marina Sitrin has long been pioneering the kind of intellectual practice that is now becoming more and more crucial, with its cherished sensitivity toward the struggling/questioning/thinking in common from which all revolutionary thoughts arise. With both passionate and rigorous analyses of Argentinean processes, Everyday Revolutions embodies what theory can and should do today in the age of global insurgency.’

Sabu Kohso, writer and translator

‘Sitrin’s smart and incisive analysis of horizontalism and autonomy in Argentina as an alternative form of not-power is a critical, timely, and lively contribution to understanding both why and how. Crackling with acuity, bits of history, and keen insights of a participant observer and social scientist, Sitrin joins those making an activist social science indispensable for those of us both committed to close, careful scholarship and passionate about social justice.’

Eric Selbin, author of Revolution, Rebellion, and Resistance

‘In Everyday Revolutions radical transformation of life is as affective as running a factory, as concrete as raising children, and as utopian as struggling for dignity. Marina Sitrin has managed to bring to life various strands of contemporary social theory to understand the power of horizontal relations among commoners in struggle.’

Massimo De Angelis, author of The Beginning of History