Love and Rage: Autonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene

This English-language study explores the punk scene in Mexico City. Love and Rage is an ethnographic account that connects punk music to political action. Ethnographer Kelley Tatro shows that punk is more than music; it’s a lifestyle choice that commits participants to anarchist politics. Autogestión, a term with deep local leftist history, is key to this process -- loosely translated as self-determination or self-management. The book details how punk-scene sounds and practices foster autogestión through affective experiences, manifesting as love and rage. Drawing on anarchism in Mexico City and social movement scholarship, it explores the pleasures and problems of using music for autonomous politics. The book includes 25 photographs by Yaz “Punk” Núñez.