Geographies of revolution: Prefiguration and spaces of alterity in Latin American radicalism

This paper discusses geographies of revolution and their potentialities for providing new notions space to critical, subaltern decolonial geopolitics. It does so by addressing a virtually unknown case, that is works Cuban revolutionary geographer Antonio Nuñez–Jiménez (1923–1998), especially his 1959 Geografía de Cuba. book was published during the period, after fall dictator Fulgencio Batista before 1961 official ‘socialist’ turn (authoritarian) Castroist regime. According respected scholarship, original inspiration democratic anticolonialist, its initial components quite heterogeneous. My argument twofold. Firstly, I contend revolutions occur independently from narrow ideological labels were imposed later, express performative prefiguring worlds (re)establishment post-revolutionary states. Secondly, suggest Jiménez’s elaborations on Monte as (revolutionary) alterity can nourish geopolitics which are alternative European ideas bounded territoriality. Corresponding rough ‘uncivilised’ hinterland where historical experiences Indio Afro-Cuban insurgences took place, became concept defining subversion through claims these early found continuators in nineteenth-century anticolonial fighters 1950s guerrillas. By writings, mostly never translated into English, also extend current literature rediscovering critical radical beyond Northern Anglo-American ‘core’.