This paper explores the significance of unorthodox territorial activisms through the study of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), a militant anti-fascist organisation in the United Kingdom and Ireland that operated at its height between 1989 and 1996. In the literature on activist territorialities, little has been written on practices that confront other non-state territorialities. Likewise, despite a small but growing geographical literature on far right populism, anti-fascism is under-researched. Through archival materials and interviews with former activists, I argue that geographers can understand AFA’s militant anti-fascism as transversal, following Félix Guattari’s theorisation of the term. AFA operated beyond state-centric modes of territoriality, creating malleable pathways between different operational logics, cross-cutting state and non-state forms. Thinking transversally about territory helps to disembed epistemic and ontological framings from dominant statist logics and assumptions, opening up new ways of understanding how movements operate territorially. The paper concludes with reflections for contemporary antifascisms.

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1990 年代英国的反法西斯行动和激进反法西斯主义的横向领土

本文通过对反法西斯行动 (AFA) 的研究来探讨非正统领土激进主义的重要性，这是一个在 1989 年至 1996 年间在英国和爱尔兰运作的激进的反法西斯组织。在有关激进主义领土的文献中，关于面对其他非国家领土的做法的文章很少。同样，尽管关于极右翼民粹主义的地理文献数量不多但不断增长，但对反法西斯主义的研究不足。通过档案材料和对前活动家的采访，我认为地理学家可以将 AFA 激进的反法西斯主义理解为横向的，遵循 Félix Guattari 对该术语的理论化。AFA 的运作超越了以国家为中心的地域模式，在不同的运作逻辑、跨领域的国家和非国家形式之间创造了可塑性路径。横向思考领土有助于将认知和本体论框架从占主导地位的国家主义逻辑和假设中解脱出来，开辟了理解运动如何在领土上运作的新方法。本文最后以对当代反法西斯主义的反思作为结尾。