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Introduction: Che Guevara and world politics
Che Lives! The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics, pp.1-22
Routledge
2026
Abstract
This introductory chapter to this volume Che Lives! provides a general primer to Che Guevara's thinking and practice in world politics. Situating Che's historical significance as a radical agent and thinker in the 1960s, it canvasses the various politicized readings of his legacy, suggesting focusing on shared textual evidence and widely agreed thematic areas can limit this problem for analysis. The introduction argues that, despite some apparent changes to world order, Che's thought remains highly relevant because the so-called 'philosophy of plunder' still dictates much of the global economy and relations between states just as it did in Che's time. Focusing on Che's dialectical method that brings together class exploitation and the operations of neo-imperialism, this chapter shows how Che is of continued relevance for contemporary social movements fighting for a just world. The introduction concludes with a chapter summary of each contribution to this volume.
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- Title
- Introduction: Che Guevara and world politics
- Authors
- Shannon Brincat (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Contributors
- Shannon Brincat (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Additional notes
- This expanded version of the original article is based on work previously published as Introduction: Che Guevara and world politics, by Shannon Brincat, Globalizations 20, no. 8 (2023). This expansion does not impact the academic nature or quality of the article.
- Publication details
- Che Lives! The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics, pp.1-22
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003471554-1; 10.4324/9781003471554
- ISBN
- 9781003471554
- Copyright note
- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991137073902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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