The Anarchist Imagination
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The Anarchist Imagination

Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences

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The Anarchist Imagination

Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences

About this book

This is a broad ranging introduction to twenty-first-century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives. The book demonstrates how the anarchist imagination has influenced the humanities and social sciences including anthropology, art, feminism, geography, international relations, political science, postcolonialism, and sociology.

Drawing on a long historical narrative that encompasses the 'waves' of anarchist movements from the classical anarchists (1840s to 1940s), post-war wave of student, counter-cultural and workers' control anarchism of the 1960s and 1970s to the DIY politics and Temporary Autonomous Zones of the 1990s right up to the Occupy! Movement and beyond, the aim of this volume is to cover the humanities and the social sciences in an era of anarchist revival in academia. Anarchist philosophy and anarchistic methodologies have re-emerged in a range of disciplines from Organization Studies, to Law, to Political Economy to Political Theory and International Relations, and Anthropology to Cultural Studies. Anarchist approaches to freedom, democracy, ethics, violence, authority, punishment, homelessness, and the arbitration of justice have spawned a broad array of academic publications and research projects. But this volume remembers an older story, in other words, the continuous role of the anarchist imagination as muse, provocateur, goading adversary, and catalyst in the stimulation of research and creative activity in the humanities and social sciences from the middle of the nineteenth century to today.

This work will be essential reading for scholars and students of anarchism, the humanities, and the social sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of tables
  8. List of contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1. Introduction: Anarchism encounters the humanities and the social sciences
  11. 2. The two anarchies: The Arab uprisings and the question of an anarchist sociology
  12. 3. Contesting the state of nature: Anarchism and International Relations
  13. 4. Anarchism and Critical Security Studies
  14. 5. Postanarchism today: Anarchism and political theory
  15. 6. Anarchism and political science: History and anti-science in radical thought
  16. 7. Toward an anarchist-feminist analytics of power
  17. 8. Loving politics: On the art of living together
  18. 9. Black flag mapping: Emerging themes in anarchist geography
  19. 10. In dialogue: Anarchism and postcolonialism
  20. 11. What is law?
  21. 12. Anarchism and education studies
  22. 13. Anarchism and religious studies
  23. 14. Aesthetics of tension
  24. 15. Conclusion in three acts: False genealogies and suspect methodologies?
  25. Index