Anarchist Studies

13/08/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #86!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group we conclude our short series of episodes based on the recent special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

In this essay, Henry Brown presents 'Anarchists in Epaulettes', examining the controversial participation of anarchists in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War.

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Episode · Anarchist Essays · In this essay, Henry Brown examines the controversial participation of anarchists in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9). Despite the universal association of anarchism with antimilitarism, the Spanish anarchists responded to the demands of antifa...

16/07/2024

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #85!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group we continue our short series of episodes based on the recent special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

In the third episode, Alex Doyle presents 'Anarchism and the Nation in Cuba', exploring anarchists in late 19th and early 20th century Cuba grappled with issues of nation and nationalism.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Alex Doyle examines how anarchists in late 19th and early 20th century Cuba grappled with thorny issues of the nation and nationalism in their pursuit of social revolution. Contrary to common assumptions about anarchism which po...

08/07/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #84!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group we continue our short series of episodes based on the recent special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

In the second episode, Diogo Duarte presents 'Anarchy in the Streets', offering a different look at the history of the state, urban planning, and social housing in Portugal.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Diogo Duarte proposes a different look at the history of the State, urban planning and social housing in Portugal, by bringing into the picture the often forgotten presence of a significant anarchist movement in the country. As....

20/06/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #83!

The latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group begins a short series of episodes based on the recent special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

The first episode introduces the series and is 'Iberian Anarchism in the Twentieth Century' by Joshua Newmark and Sophie Turbutt.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. This essay introduces a short series of podcasts emanating from last year's 'Iberian Anarchism in Twentieth Century History' special issue. Joshua Newmark highlights some of the parallels and linkages between the Spanish and Portuguese anarchi...

04/06/2024

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #82!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, David Christopher discusses 'Early Cronenberg and the Anarchist Apocalypse'.

This discussion is based on David's article in Anarchist Studies 32:1 https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies/vol-32-issue-1/

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, David Christopher explores and unpacks the mutually anarchistic and apocalyptic propensities in the early films of David Cronenberg. Christopher positions Cronenberg's films as exemplary of an innovative new methodology of cinem...

22/05/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #81!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Andrew Whitehead presents 'The Anarchist Big Three and the Siege of Sidney Street'.

Andrew's latest book, 'A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street' is published by Reaktion Books.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Andrew Whitehead examines the two most lethal incidents linked to anarchism in London's history: the murder of three police officers during an attempted armed robbery at Houndsditch in December 1910 and the ensuing siege of Sidn...

08/05/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #80!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais discuss 'An Anarchist Approach to Housing Precarity'.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais unpack an anarchist approach to confronting housing precarity by bringing together existing anarchist scholarship while proposing housing interventions that support agency, anti-colonial work, an...

23/04/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #79!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Sean Scalmer presents 'Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept'.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. This essay examines the rise of 'direct action' as a key concept in anarchist and radical politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the transnational arguments, texts and networks that made this possible. Sean....

16/04/2024

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #78!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Sam C. Tenorio discusses 'Black Cataclysm: Anarchism and Ruination'.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Sam C. Tenorio (he/they) reconsiders the Watts Rebellion of 1965 and its ruinous disruptions, like arson, theft, and vandalism, as a cataclysm that clears material and discursive ground....

05/04/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #77!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Nolan Bennett discusses 'Alexander Berkman's Anti-Prison Activism'.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Nolan Bennett traces through Alexander Berkman's 1912 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist an unresolved tension between two approaches to the prison: advocacy for political prisoners and advocacy against the politics of prisons. Berk...

21/03/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #76!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Peterson Silva discusses 'Mechanical Failures and Anarchist Freedom'.

In this essay, Peterson talks about metaphors for freedom among anarchists. He particularly discusses a metaphor concerning failure in complex systems, pointing out that anarchists relate freedom to the deep transformation of social patterns.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Peterson Silva talks about metaphors for freedom among anarchists. He particularly discusses a metaphor concerning failure in complex systems, pointing out that anarchists relate freedom to the deep transformation of social patt...

01/03/2024

Anarchist Studies 32.1 (Spring 2024) is out now!

AS 32.1 contains 4 original articles and 8 reviews. But it starts with 2 tributes to Ronald Creagh (1929-2023), who also appears on the cover.

CONTENTS:

APPRECIATIONS:
Marianne Enckell, 'Ronald Creagh, an appreciation'

John Clark, 'Ronald Creagh (1929-2023)'

ARTICLES:
David Christopher, 'Early Cronenberg and the Anarchist-Apocalypse'

Jon Burke, 'Qalang Smangus: Successful Aboriginal Christian Anarchism in Taiwan'

Francis Dupuis-Déri, 'How to Occult Misogyny and Antifeminism in the History of Political Ideas: The Case of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon'

Bernard Gowers, 'Graeber and Wengrow’s Middle Ages'

REVIEWS:

Rhiannon Firth reviews Alissa Starodub and Andrew Robinson (eds.), Riots and Militant Occupations: Smashing a System, Building a World – A Critical Introduction

Declan Lloyd reviews Mark Antliff, Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde

Ivanna Margarucci reviews Fernando O’Neill Cuesta, Direct Action in Montevideo: Uruguayan Anarchism, 1927–1937

Constance Bantman reviews Steve J. Shone, Women of Liberty

Marina Lademacher reviews Murray Bookchin, The Modern Crisis &
Y. Tarinski (ed.), Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray
Bookchin

Chantelle Gray reviews Thomas Swann, Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics

Jon Be**en reviews Richard Morgan, The Making of Kropotkin’s Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-Political Dimension

Michael Bush reviews Antonio Negri, The End of Sovereignty

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27/02/2024

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #75!!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group Chris Robé presents ‘Anarchism, Video Activism and State Repression’

In this essay, Robé explores the origins of video activism from the ecology, women’s liberation, and anarchist movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then traces the state’s increasing surveillance of video activism and recent debates regarding the value of such activism among participants of the Stop Cop City movement.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Chris Robé explores the origins of video activism from the ecology, women’s liberation, and anarchist movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then traces the state’s increasing surveillance of video activism and rec...

20/02/2024

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #74!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Pranay Somayajula presents 'Nationhood Beyond Nationalism: Towards an Anarchist Politics of Anti-Colonial Liberation'.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Pranay Somayajula critically examines the anarchist movement’s relationship to anticolonial politics. Drawing on a rich history of anticolonial movements, from the Kurds in Rojava to the Zapatistas in Chiapas, who have sought ...

30/01/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #73!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Christopher Powell discusses 'Shame Economies', in which he argues that sovereign statehood generates an economy of shame that fosters identification with the imagined sovereign. Achieving anarchy requires a shift in who is shamed and for what, shifting self-worth from ‘higher' ideals to horizontal solidarity.

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16/01/2024

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #72!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group Elena Pagani offers 'Interpersonal Freedom as Pluralist Radical Horizontality'.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Elena Pagani presents theorising and practices of freedom as interpersonal and intersubjective. She does this through the conceptions of agonistic self-creation and agonistic empathy in conversation with empirical findings from....

12/01/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #71

We're back! In the first episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group of the year, Deric Shannon discusses 'The Anarchist Critique of Capitalism'.

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22/12/2023

In our last podcast episode of the year, Sonia Hernández discusses the role Mexican women played in the emergence of anarcho-syndicalist organising during the early twentieth century.

Listen to Anarchist Essay #70 'For a Just and Better World' here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever your find your podcasts.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Sonia Hernández describes the central role Mexican women played in the emergence of anarcho-syndicalist organizing during the early 20th century. She examines the emergence of transnational feminism influenced by anarchist idea...

13/12/2023

🎙️Anarchist Essay #69!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group Benjamin Franks discusses 'Anarchism and Elections'. https://bit.ly/3NhHyS8

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Listen to Anarchist Essays on Spotify. Brought to you by Loughborough University’s Anarchism Research Group (ARG), Anarchist Essays presents leading academics, activists, and thinkers exploring themes in anarchist theory, history, and practice. For more on the ARG, please visit https://www.lboro.a...

28/11/2023

🎙️Anarchist Essay #68!

In the latest episode our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Carne Ross argues that 'Anarchy is Love'.

This episode originally appeared in DOPE Magazine.

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Carne explores the spiritual dimension of anarchism, which he once assumed was more a ‘political’ philosophy about how people make decisions and transact business. He concludes that there is indeed a vital spiritual element ...

08/11/2023

🎙️ Two new episodes in the Anarchist Essays podcast:

In essay #66, Rhiannon Firth discusses 'Disaster Anarchy' https://spoti.fi/45Ki1XS

And in essay #67, William Marling explores 'Anarchism and Rhetoric'. https://bit.ly/3QuZc5o

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, William Marling asks why there seems to be so much rhetoric in/about anarchism. He digs for an answer in his recent book on Ammon Hennacy, finding an answer in the practice of "parrhesia," or speaking truth to power. William Mar...

20/10/2023

🥳Anarchist Studies is 30 years old this year!

Here's a look back at our first ever issue.

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16/10/2023

🎙️Three episodes of our podcast 'Anarchist Essays', in collaboration with the Anarchism Research Group, have been published since our last update.

In essay #63, Ryan Essex discusses 'Anarchy, and Why It Matters for Health' https://bit.ly/3Ezv5o0

In essay #64, Javier Sethness Castro offers 'Q***r Tolstoy: A Psychobiography' https://bit.ly/45bARH3

And in essay #65, Gabriele Montalbano discusses 'Anarchism and Labour Movements in Tunisia'. This episode is available in both English and Italian. https://bit.ly/46MExAx

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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Gabriele Montalbano considers the Italian-speaking anarchists of the end of the nineteenth century and their involvement and legacy in trade union movements and strikes in Tunis during the first decade of the twentieth century.....

10/10/2023

Anarchist Studies 31.2 (2023) is out now!

New issue out now!

Issue 31.2 is a special issue on 'One Hundred Years with and without Kropotkin', featuring an editorial, 5 original articles, and 5 book reviews.

Contents:

1. Cord-Christian Casper, Billy Godfrey, Adeline Coignet,
'Editorial: One Hundred Years with and without Kropotkin'

2. Ole Martin Sandberg, ''Everything Changes in Nature': Kropotkin's Process Philosophy'

3. Claudia Firth, 'Mutual Aid and Technology in the Time of Covid'

4. Tomas Pewton, 'Reimagining the Food System: Kropotkin, Food Sovereignty and OrganicLea'

5. Jelena H. Pantel, Selva Varengo, and Federico Venturini, 'Peter Kropotkin and Social Ecology: Between Biology and Revolution'

6. Zoe Baker, 'Kropotkin and Revolution'

As ever:

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11/09/2023

🎙️ There have been 13(!) episodes of our podcast series 'Anarchist Essays' since our last update.

In essay #51 Kiara Mohamed & Priya Sharma explore 'Psychedelic Liberation' https://bit.ly/3r5czkj

In essay #52 Nora Ziegler considers 'Radical Hospitality'
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In essay #53 Charlotte Lowell asks 'Is Love a Synonym for Anarchism?'
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In essay #54 Chris Rossdale considers 'The Limits of Rebellion'
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In essay #55 Spencer Beswick explores 'Anarchist Anti-Fascism'
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In essay #56 Jesse Cohn explores 'White Anarchism's Trouble with Modernity'
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In essay #57 Richard White offers 'A Purity of Rebellion: Anarchism, Animals and More Than Human Worlds'
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In essay #58 Pablo Angel Lugo presents 'Practices of Disobedience and Clandestine Citizenship: A Proposal Towards an Anarchist Theory of Art'
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In essay #59 DaN McKee gives us 'Anarchist: Subverting the System from Within'
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In essay #60 Chi Shing Lee discusses 'Anarchism and Nationalism: Ng Chung-Yi's Anarchist Envisioning of Hong Kong in the early 1970s'
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In essay #61 Robert Leach presents 'Subverting Good Order'
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In essay #62 Clara Vlessing offers 'Remembering Louise Michel: From Anarchist Assassin to Banksy Boat'
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and finally, in essay #63 Ryan Essex discusses 'Anarchy, and Why it Matters for Health'
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Listen to this episode from Anarchist Essays on Spotify. In this essay, Kiara Mohamed Amin and Priya Sharma explore the liberatory potential of psychedelic trips, arguing that such practices possess the potential to humanise parts of the self that have been dehumanised by capitalist systems of livin...

18/01/2023

🎙️Anarchist Essays podcast!

There are two recent episode of the Anarchist Essays podcast, in conjunction with the Anarchism Research Group.

In episode #49 Kim Kelly argues that 'Guns aren't just for right-wingers'. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/20K7VLHk7vp1T35H6xXFtW?si=c7e43c64c9344fcc

And episode #50 is a special trimodal release. Watch, hear, or read Dai O'Brien and Steve Emery discuss 'Deaf People and Anarchism'.

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Article: Anarchism and deaf people by Dai O’Brien & Steve Emery 16th January 2023   Look, it’s quite simple. We want to put everything in common, starting from the principle that everybody should do some work and all should live as well as possible. It’s not possible to live in this world wit...

27/10/2022

Anarchist Studies 30.2 is out now!

This issue features 4 original articles:

* Frank Jacob, 'An Anarchist Has to Live off Something: Emma Goldman as a Capitalist Publicist'

* Spencer Beswick, 'From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)'

* Nora Ziegler, 'Power Relations in Grassroots Organising: An Anarchist Dialectics'

* Brian Morris, 'Remembering Murray Bookchin (1921-2006): Dialectical Naturalism'

and 14 book reviews.

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30/08/2022

Call for Contributions: Anarchist Essays Podcast - paid opportunity

DEADLINE THURSDAY 1st Sept!!

Anarchist Studies & the Anarchism Research Group have recently secured funding to support a series of paid contributions to the podcast from individuals underrepresented in academia. For more info, see the link, and submit your proposals before the deadline this Thursday!

https://anarchiststudiesnetwork.org/2022/07/20/call-for-contributions-anarchist-essays-podcast/

The ‘Anarchist Essays’ podcast was launched in September 2020 by Loughborough University’s Anarchism Research Group (ARG) and the journal Anarchist Studies. The series currently comprises 40 episod…

09/08/2022

Call for Paid Contributions: Anarchist Essays podcast

Anarchist Studies and the Anarchism Research Group have recently secured funding from The Lipman-Miliband Trust to support a series of paid contributions to the podcast from individuals in communities typically underrepresented in academia. To that end, we are seeking 5 ‘essays’ from individuals who may face barriers to inclusion in academia, including, but not limited to: scholars from BAME backgrounds; LBGTQI+ and non-binary scholars; disabled scholars and scholars marginalised due to economic class or other factors.

A typical episode of the podcast lasts 15 minutes (approximately 2000 words) and an honorarium of £150 will be paid for each contribution. These episodes will be released in December and January 2022/3.

For more info and for details on submitting your proposals, see here: https://anarchiststudiesnetwork.org/2022/07/20/call-for-contributions-anarchist-essays-podcast/

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15/06/2022

🎙️ Anarchist Essay #37!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Janet Biehl discusses her new graphic memoir 'Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS'.

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