Anarchist Studies

29/04/2025

14/04/2025

🎙️Anarchist Essay #101!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Jesse Spafford discusses 'The Anarchist Case Against Private Property'.

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24/03/2025

Anarchist Studies 33.1 (Spring, 2025) is out now!

The issue features 4 original articles and 6 book reviews.

Contents:

1. Ole Birk Laursen, ''Deserter in Scandinavia': August Souch, Transregional Networks, and the Scandinavian Syndicalist Press, 1914-1919'

2. Dai O'Brien and Steve Emery, 'L.A. Motler: a Deaf Anarchist'

3. Jason Garner, 'Updating Anarchism: The Transnational Debate on Anarchist Ideology and Tactics in the Aftermath of the First World War'

4. Levon Kwok, 'A Cry for the Future of Hong Kong: Blackbird's The Return of the Orphan'

In the reviews, Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez looks at Comotto's 'The Life of Anarchist Octavio Alberola'. Robert Graham reviews Giovanna Gioli and Hamish Kalin (eds.) 'Thinking as Anarchists: Selected Writings from Volonta'. Nathan Jun reviews Steve J. Shone's 'Dangerous Anarchist Strikers'. Sidonie Verhaeghe reviews Clara Schildknecht's 'Hardi, compagnons! Masculinités et virilité anarchistes à la Belle Époque', and Davide Turcato reviews Susana Sueiro Seoane's 'El anarquista errante: La aventura transatlántica
del tipógrafo Pedro Esteve (1865–1925)'

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03/03/2025

🎙️Anarchist Essay #100 (Happy birthday to us 🎉)

In the 100th episode of our series with the Anarchism Research Group, Ruth Kinna discusses 'Mutual Aid: What It Is and What It Is Not'.

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24/12/2024

🎙️Anarchist Essay #95!

In the final episode our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Groupfor the year, Alexandria Hollett presents 'No Gods, No Masters: Practicing Freedom through Anarchist Civics'

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19/12/2024

Anarchist Essays Episodes #93 and #94!

In episode #93 of our podcast series with the Anarchism Research Group, Alexander Sawatsky discusses 'Anarchist Perspectives for Social Work Practice: Disrupting Oppressive Systems'. This episode is available here: https://bit.ly/3D3q7lI

In episode #94, Libera Pisano presents 'Embracing Life: Gustav Landauer's Anarchism as Rejection of Death'. The episode is available here: https://bit.ly/3OQYpLT

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15/11/2024

Anarchist Essay #92!

In the latest episode of our podcast series with Anarchism Research Group, Leonard Williams offers 'A Response to the US Presidential Election'.

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09/10/2024

Anarchist Studies 32:2 (2024) is out now!

The latest issue of AS features 4 original articles, 2 review essays, and 6 book reviews.

Contents:

Allan Antliff, 'About this Issue’s Cover: Ben Benn’s Portrait of Hippolyte Havel' pp. 5‑6

Matthew Wilson, 'Colin Ward: An Ambiguous Legacy' pp. 7‑14

Ondřej Slačálek & Michael Polák, 'The Story of Czech Anarchism: Ideas and Practices of Czech Libertarians, 1883-1930', pp.15‑43

Claire Aniel-Buchheit, 'Politics Walking The Tightrope Of The Law: The New York Criminal Anarchy Act Of 1902', pp. 44‑74

Grzegorz Piotrowski, 'Insurrectionary Anarchism in Poland: The Case of the People’s Liberation Front', pp. 75‑102

Review Articles:

Robert Graham, 'Three Recent Introductions to Anarchism', pp. 103-108

Morris Brodie, 'The Spanish Revolution, Revisited', pp. 109-113

Also in the reviews section:
Constance Bantman reviews Kathy E. Ferugon, 'Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchism Print Culture'
Iwona Janicka reviews Benjamin Franks, 'Anarchisms, Postanarchisms, and Ethics'
Tim Waterman reviews Paul Dobraszczyk, 'Arcitecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority'
Nathan Jun reviews Tom Wetzel, 'Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century'
Rhiannon Firth reviews Tim Waterman, 'The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design'
Koshka Duff & Chris Rossdale review Richard Gilman Opalsky, 'The Communism of Love'.

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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...

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...