Theory Moves: Autonomist Marxism, Social Movement Publications, and the Production of Space

Abstract

Beyond the public personas of social movements is a vast, unexamined realm of event planning, small gatherings, editorial meetings, and informal collaborations between individual writers and thinkers. To determine how these intimate spaces are produced and their role in larger dynamics, I have: investigated the small but influential current of Autonomist Marxism in the United States; examined six sets of prominent Autonomist publications; and interrogated Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space using the movement-generated theory of Autonomist Marxism. With expected growth in social movements in the coming years, this project attempts to advance geographical thinking and movement scholarship during a key period.