The Continuum Companion to Anarchism

480 Pages·2012·2.23 MB·English

by  Ruth Kinna (ed.)

The Continuum Companion to Anarchism
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The Continuum
Companion to
Anarchism
Edited by
Ruth Kinna
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Contents
Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xiv
Part I – Research on Anarchism
1 Introduction 3
Ruth Kinna
Part II – Approaches to Anarchist Research
2 Research Methods and Problems: Postanarchism 41
Saul Newman
3 Anarchism and Analytic Philosophy 50
Benjamin Franks
4 Anarchism and Art History: Methodologies of Insurrection 72
Allan Antliff
5 Participant Observation 86
Uri Gordon
6 Anarchy, Anarchism and International Relations 96
Alex Prichard
Part III – Current Research in Anarchist Studies
7 Bridging the Gaps: Twentieth-Century Anglo-American
Anarchist Thought 111
Carissa Honeywell
8 The Hitchhiker as Theorist: Rethinking Sociology and
Anthropology from an Anarchist Perspective 140
Jonathan Purkis
9 Genders and Sexualities in Anarchist Movements 162
Sandra Jeppesen and Holly Nazar
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10 Literature and Anarchism 192
David Goodway
11 Anarchism and the Future of Revolution 212
Laurence Davis
12 Social Ecology 233
Andy Price
13 Leyendo el anarchismo a través de ojos latinoamericanos :
Reading Anarchism through Latin American Eyes 252
Sara C. Mo(cid:308) a
14 Geographies and Urban Space 278
Ian G. Cook and Joanne Norcup
15 There Ain’t No Black in the Anarchist Flag! Race,
Ethnicity and Anarchism 299
Süreyyya Evren
16 Where to Now? Future Directions for Anarchist Research 315
Ruth Kinna
Part IV – Materials for Further Research
17 Key terms 329
Ma(cid:308) hew Wilson and Ruth Kinna
18 Resources 353
19 Bibliographies, Reference Materials and Reading Lists 390
Bibliographies 390
Reading Lists and Course Guides 394
Catalogued Collections 395
Reference Works/Encyclopaedia 395
Documentary Histories 396
Dissertations 398
Review Journals 398
Zines 399
Academic Journals: Special Issues 399
Bibliographical Essays: A Guide to Non-English
 Language Sources 401
Works on Anarchism: The Low Countries 401
 Bert Altena
Anarchism in France 404
 David Berry
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Anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Libertarian
 Movement in Spain, Portugal and Latin America 411
 Richard Cleminson
Italian Anarchism 417
 Pietro Di Paola
The Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
 Norway, Sweden 420
 Gabriel Kuhn
The Anarchist Revival in Russian Historiography 428
 Martin A. Miller
Chinese Works on Anarchism in the People’s Republic of
 China (PRC), 1949–2010 433
 John A. Rapp
Anarchist Literatures in the German-Speaking World 439
 Peter Seyferth and Gabriel Kuhn
Index 451
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Contributors
Bert Altena is Assistant Professor in the Modern and Contemporary History of
Western societies at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication,
Erasmus University, Rott erdam. He has published widely on labour history and
the history of anarchism. He is currently completing a biography of an unknown
worker and planning research on the role of the nation and nationalism in the
work of Max Nett lau. A longer-term project is to write a history of anarchism in the
Netherlands.
Allan Antliff is the Canada Research Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art
at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Director of the Anarchist Archive,
University of Victoria, Art Editor for the journals A narchist Studies and Anarchist
Developments in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia
of Modernism . Antliff has authored two books, Anarchist Modernism (2001) and Art
and Anarchy (2007) and edited Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (2004).
Active as a theorist and historian of anarchism, he has writt en on a wide range
of topics including radical pedagogy, post-structuralism and aesthetics. He has
published numerous art reviews and feature articles in journals such as Canadian
Art Magazine , F use , C Magazine and Galleries West and contributed to exhibition
catalogues for the Whitney Museum of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery and other
institutions.
David Berry has researched and published on the history of the French anarchist
movement, the post-1945 libertarian communist current, the contemporary ‘alter-
native le(cid:286) ’ and most recently Daniel Guérin. He is the author of A History of the
French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 (Westview, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002) and
co-editor, with Constance Bantman of N ew Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and
Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational (Cambridge Scholars
Press, 2010). He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, History and
International Relations at Loughborough University.
Richard Cleminson is Reader in the History of Sexuality in Spanish, Portuguese
and Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds. He has worked on the his-
tory of the reception of ideas on sexuality in Spanish anarchism and on the his-
tory of sexuality more generally in Spain. He is now writing a history of eugenics
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in Portugal. His most recent book is Anarchism and Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships
and Power (Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2011) (edited with Jamie Heckert) and
he has previously published H ermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity
in Spain, 1850–1960 (Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009) and ‘Los Invisibles’:
A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1939 (Cardiff : University of Wales
Press, 2007) (both with F. Vázquez García).
Ian G. Cook is now Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at Liverpool John
Moores University. An experienced teacher, researcher and PhD supervisor Ian has
co-edited or co-authored nine books to date and helped supervise 17 PhDs to com-
pletion. His interest in anarchism goes back to the 1970s and he was co-editor with
David Pepper of Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) of Anarchism
and Geography in 1990; this was the fi nal issue of the radical campaigning journal
Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education .
Laurence Davis is Lecturer in Government at University College Cork, Ireland.
A Series Editor of the C ontemporary Anarchist Studies book series published by
Continuum Press, and a founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network, he
has taught politics and sociology at a wide range of universities in Ireland and the
United Kingdom, including Oxford University, Ruskin College, University College
Dublin, the National University of Ireland Galway and the National University of
Ireland Maynooth, where he co-created the new MA in Community Education,
Equality and Social Activism. His recent publications include Anarchism and
Utopianism (Manchester University Press, 2009, co-edited with Ruth Kinna), The
New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2005,
co-edited with Peter Stillman) and numerous articles and book chapters on anar-
chist and utopian political thought, democratic and revolutionary theory and prac-
tice and the politics of art, work and love. He is also an active participant in a range
of social movements including the Irish Ship to Gaza campaign, of which he is a
Coordinator and Spokesperson.
Pietro Di Paola i s Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln. He is inter-
ested in the experience of anarchist exiles and he is currently writing a monograph
entitled The Knights-Errant of Anarchy. London and the Diaspora of Italian Anarchists
(1870–1914) for LUP. He is also engaged in a research on British deserters in World
War II.
Süreyyya Evren teaches at Kultur University, Istanbul, and writes on contempo-
rary art, literature and radical politics. He has published several books in Turkish
and several articles in English and German. He is the editor and founder of the
postanarchist magazine Siyahi and the postanarchist journal Anarchist Developments
in Cultural Studies. His collection, Post-Anarchism: A Reader, co-edited with Duane
Rousselle, was published by Pluto in 2011.
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Benjamin Franks is Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University
of Glasgow. He is the author of Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary
British Anarchisms (AK Press, 2006) and co-editor with Matt hew Wilson of A narchism
and Moral Philosophy (Palgrave, 2010).
David Goodway taught history to mainly adult students from 1969 until the
University of Leeds closed its School of Continuing Education in 2005. His fi rst
book was London Chartism 1838–1848. But for 20 years he has writt en principally
on anarchism and libertarian socialism, publishing collections of the writings of
Alex Comfort, Herbert Read, ‘Maurice Brinton’ and Nicolas Walter and of the cor-
respondence between John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman; T alking Anarchy
with Colin Ward; as well as A narchist Seeds beneath the Snow: Left -Libertarian Thought
and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward, now reissued in a second edi-
tion by PM Press.
Uri Gordon (DPhil, Oxon) is the author ofA narchy Alive! and numerous articles on
contemporary anarchism. He is currently active in Israel with the Negev Coexistence
Forum for Civil Equality and Anarchists against the Wall. Uri has participated in
local squatt ing, independent media and community garden initiatives as well as in
the PGA, Indymedia and Dissent! networks. He teaches at the Arava Institute for
Environmental Studies and Ben Gurion University. His work has been translated
into 11 languages.
Carissa Honeywell is a Lecturer in Politics at Sheffi eld Hallam University. Her
research interests concern the political theory of anarchism, particularly in the
twentieth-century contexts. She is the author of A British Anarchist Tradition: Herbert
Read, Alex Comfort and Colin Ward (Continuum, 2011); ‘Utopianism and Anarchism’,
Journal of Political Ideologies (2007); ‘Art and Utopia: The Philosophies of Herbert
Read’, A ltertopian (2009); ‘Colin Ward: Anarchism and Social Policy’, in A narchist
Studies (2011); and ‘Paul Goodman: Finding an Audience for Anarchism’, Journal for
the Study of Radicalism (2011).
Sandra Jeppesen has been involved in many anarchist projects including Who’s
Emma, Resist (Toronto), the random anarchist group, Uprising Books, Block the
Empire/Bloquez l’Empire, the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair, the Montreal Anarchist
Bookfair and the CRAC-K feminist research collective. Her research has appeared
in S exualities , the C anadian Journal of Communication and A narchist Studies , as well as
books including O rganize!: Building from the Local for Global Justice , Post-Anarchism:
A Reader and New Perspectives on Anarchism. She is Assistant Professor of Media
Studies and English Literature in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at
Lakehead University-Orillia.
Ruth Kinna w orks in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations
at Loughborough University. She is the author of the B eginner’s Guide to Anarchism
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(Oxford: Oneworld, 2005 and 2009) and editor of the journal A narchist Studies. She is
co-editor, with Laurence Davis of A narchism and Utopianism (Manchester University
Press, 2009) and with Alex Prichard, Saku Pinta and David Berry of L ibertarian
Socialism: Politics in Black and Red , to be published by Palgrave.
Gabriel Kuhn is an Austrian-born writer and translator living in Stockholm,
Sweden. His publications include Vielfalt, Bewegung, Widerstand: Texte zum
Anarchismus (Münster: Unrast, 2009), Gustav Landauer: Revolution and Other Writings
(Oakland: PM Press, 2010) and E rich Mühsam: Liberating Society from the State and
Other Writings (Oakland: PM Press, 2011).
Martin A. Miller is Professor in the Department of History and the Department
of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. In addition to a number of
edited works and numerous articles, he has published K ropotkin (University of
Chicago Press, 1976), T he Russian Revolutionary Emigres, 1825–1870 (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1986) and F reud and the Bolsheviks: The History of Psychoanalysis in
Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (Yale University Press, 1998, with translations
into French and Spanish in separate editions). His most recent book, F antasies of
Power: The Foundations of Modern Terrorism , will be published in 2012 by Cambridge
University Press.
Sara C. Mott a teaches at the School of Politics and International Relations,
University of Nott ingham, and researches the politics of domination and resistance
in the subaltern of Latin America with the aim of contributing to collective theoreti-
cal production that is politically enabling. She has writt en about the Third Way in
Latin America with particular reference to the Chilean Concertacion and Brazilian
Workers’ Party governments and their relationship with neo-liberalism; on new
forms of popular politics in Argentina and Venezuela; on the feminisation of resis-
tance in the region; and on questions relating to the academic’s role in relation to
social movements that produce their own knowledge and theory. Pedagogically she
tries to combine critical and popular teaching methodologies and methods inside
and outside the university in order to contribute to the formation of communities
of resistance.
Holly Nazar is an MA student in the Department of Communication Studies at
Concordia University, Montreal. Her research focuses on theories of the public
sphere through a study of the Appeal to Reason , a late nineteenth- and early twen-
tieth-century Socialist newspaper in the United States. She has worked with the
Quebec Public Interest Research Groups at McGill and Concordia Universities.
Saul Newman is Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
His research is in continental and poststructuralist political and social theory, and
contemporary radical politics. He is the author of: From Bakunin to Lacan (Lexington
Books, 2001); P ower and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought (Routledge, 2005);
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