Anarchist Studies

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Vol 16 No 1
Editorial Ruth Kinna
FEATURES
Open Form and the Abstract Imperative: Herbert Read and Contemporary Anarchist Art Allan Antliff
Leo Tolstoy on the State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State Violence and Deception Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos
Beyond Primitivism: Towards a twenty-first century Anarchist Theory and Praxis for Science and Technology Charles Thorpe and Ian Welsh
REVIEW ARTICLE Communalism or caricature: patterns of Bookchin critique
Andy Price
REVIEWS Uri Gordon, Anarchy Alive! Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory Reviewed by Alex Prichard
Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes Reviewed by Chris Ealham
Michel Pigenet and Pierre Robin (eds.), Victor, Emile, Georges, Fernand et les autres …Regards sur le syndicalisme révolutionnaire Reviewed by Constance Bantman
The Kate Sharpley Library Reviewed by David Goodway

Vol 15 No 2
ANARCHIST STUDIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
A brief history of Anarchist Studies (so far) Lewis Call
Anarchist Studies: what should be done? Brian Martin
Facilitating diversity: some thoughts on being a book reviews editor Jon Purkis
Such, such were the joys: confessions of an anarcho-editorialist Sharif Gemie Epilogue Ruth Kinna
FEATURES
What is Anarchist Literary Theory? Jesse Cohn
'Deleuze, Derrida and Anarchism' N. J. Jun
Lysander Spooner's critique of the social contract Steve J. Shone
REVIEWS
Rob Knowles, Political Economy from Below - Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840 - 1914 Reviewed by John Quail
Michael Brocken, The British Folk Revival (1944-2002) Reviewed by James 'Bar' Bowen
Wayne Burns, Resisting Our Culture of Conformity: In the Hills of Southern Ohio and in the Groves of Academe Reviewed by David Goodway
Mark Leier, Bakunin: The Creative Passion Reviewed by Brian Morris

Vol.15 No.1
GUEST EDITORIAL
Ruth Kinna
FEATURES
Israeli anarchism: statist dilemmas and the dynamics of joint struggle
Uri Gordon
No past, no respect, and no power: an anarchist evaluation of Native Americans as sports nicknames, logos, and mascots
Dana M. Williams
Belief, anarchism and modernity
Daniel Colson
The cultural practice of Argentinean anarchism: The Buenos Aires Biblioteca Archivo de Estudios Libertarios (1995-2005) and the CNT-FAI's Instituto de Documentación Social (1938)
Pablo M. Pérez, Juan Manuel Heredia and Hernán Villasenin
REVIEW ARTICLES
We have heard the chimes at midnight: What have I done? Anurag Jain
REVIEWS
Lucy Sargisson and Lyman Tower Sargent, Living in Utopia: New Zealand's Intentional Communities
Reviewed by Ruth Kinna
Jonathan Purkis and James Bowen, Changing Anarchism: Anarchist theory and practice in a global age
Reviewed by Benjamin Franks
John P. Clark & Camille Martin, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The radical social thought of Elisée Reclus
Reviewed by Richard Cleminson

Vol.14 No.2
GUEST EDITORIAL
After the war
Uri Gordon
FEATURES
Anarchism, anthropology and Andalucia: an analysis of the CNT and 'New Capitalism'
Beltrán Roca Martínez
A revolt to live: post-structuralist anarchist resistance against the G8
Linden Farrer
Debate: re-inventing hierarchy
John Clark and Robert Graham
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)
Tom Cahill
REVIEW ARTICLES
Harold Barclay - anthropologist of anarchy
Robert Graham
Global anti-capitalism
Brian Morris

Vol.14 No.1
INTRODUCTION
Anarchism: Secularism, Religion and Diversity
Ruth Kinna
FEATURES
The Trial of Fatima: Anarchists, Muslims and the Monde Libertaire, 2003-05
Sharif Gemie
Some thoughts on 'The Trial of Fatima'
Neil Macmaster
Comment on "The Trial of Fatima: Anarchists, Muslims and the Monde Libertaire"
Harold B. Barclay
Some observations on Sharif Gemie's essay
Georges Ubbiali
The shadows of enlightenment: some Foucaultian perspectives on the French law and the veil
Beltrán Roca
Anarchism, anti-clericalism and religions
Paul Chambers
An immigrant in France: trying to understand the headscarf
Tom Cahill
The trial of Le Monde libertaire
Ronald Creagh
Afterword
L. Susan Brown

Vol.13 No.2
FEATURES
Power: Some anthropological perspectives
Harold Barclay
'Israeli Anarchism - Being Young, Queer and Radical in the Promised Land: An interview with Yossi
Aaron Lakoff
Paradigm Crash, Paradigm Shift
Thomas S. Martin
Political Violence and Morality in Anarchist Theory and Practice: Luigi Galleani and Peter Kropotkin in Comparative Perspective
Niall Whelehan

Vol.13 No.1
FEATURES
Anarchy in Political Philosophy
Francis Depuis-Deri
'Nowhere At Home', Not Even in Theory: Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Political Theory
Jim Jose
Proudhon: From Aesthetics to Politics
Ali Nematollahy
The Torture Show - Reflections on Irq and the West
Sharif Gemie, Sureyya Evran, Alan Antliff and Marcus Milwright

Vol.12 No.2
FEATURES
Violence, Non-violence, and the Concept of Revolution in Anarchist Thought
Andy Chan
Literature and Politics in early twentieth-century Argentina: The Anarchist Modernism of Roberto Arlt
Glen S. Close
Carnival against capital: a comparison of Bakhtin, Vaneigem and Bey
Gavin Grindon
`A Mighty, Reckless, Shameless, Conscienceless, Proud – Crime’: Re-evaluating The Criminal in Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own
James Ward

Vol.12 No.1
FEATURES
Looking Back and Moving Forward: The Radical Humanism of The Politics of Individualism L. Susan Brown
Reinventing Hierarchy: The Political Theory of Social Ecology Robert Graham
Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State Saul Newman
Russian Sources of Radical Environmentalism Viktor Postnikov

Vol.11 No.2
FEATURES
The Libertarian Insurrection of the'Arrooch' Assembly Movement in Kabylia (Algeria), 2000-02. George Riviere
Anarcho-Punk: Local Scenes and International Networks. Alan O'Connor
Empowering Anarchy: Power, Hegemony, and Anarchist Strategy. Tadzio Mueller
Globalisation Versus Humanisation:Contemporary Anti-Capitalism and Anarchism. Karen Goaman.

Vol.11 No.1
FEATURES
The direct action ethic Benjamin Franks
Shape shifting: civil society, complexity and social movements. Graeme Chesters
Anarchy in art: strategies of dissidence. Allan Antliff
Tribute to John Moore, 1957 - 2002. Sharif Gemie, Leigh Starcross, Lewis Call, Jon Purkis, Karen Goaman, Carl Levy

Vol.10 No.2
FEATURES
Islam, Muslim societies and anarchy. Harold B. Barclay
Anarchistic gift economies in contemporary science fiction. Lewis Call
The insubordination of words: Poetry, insurgency and the situationists. John Moore
Jean B. Elsthtain: the unjust philosopher of the just war. Sharif Gemie

Vol.10 No.1
FEATURES
Neither Soldiers nor Terrorists: Anarchism after 11 September. Introduction: Sharif Gemie. Contributors: Ronald Creagh; Nnoam Chomsky;CNT of Fraga; Johannes von Hosel; The Istanbul Anarchist Platform; Karen Goaman
Politcal Philosophy in Mary Shelley's Early Novels: A Reassessment. Raimund Schaffner
Anarchism, Alternative Publishers and Copyright. Ellie Clement and Charles Oppenheim
Remembering Anarchism Lancastrium: Notes on 'the cult seventies prankster' 1974-1981. Mike Waite

Vol.9 No.2
FEATURES
Anarcho-Feminist Discourse in Prewar Japan: Ito Noe's Autobiographical Social Criticism. Helene Bowen Raddeker
The Prehistory of Post-Scarcity Anarchism: Josef Weber and the Movement for a Democracy of Content (1947-1964). Marcel van der Linden
War on the State: Stirner's and Deleuze's Anarchism. Saul Newman
Kropotkin's Metaphysics of Nature. Brian Morris

Vol.9 No.1
FEATURES
Maoism and Anarchism: Mao Zedong's Response to the Anarchist Critique of Marxism. John A. Rapp
Chasing Rainbows? Utopian Pragmatics and the Search for Anarchist Communities. Randall Amster
The Ecological Libertarian Approach: What Role in UK Social Housing Development?. Ben Lawley
REVIEW ARTICLE
All Nietzscheans Now? (John Moore)

Vol.8 No.2
Anarchism and Sexuality
FEATURES
Mujeres Libres: Identity, Community, Sexuality, and Power. Martha Ackelsberg
From the Solitary Vice to 'The Rehabilitation of Onanism': Changing Anarchist Discourses on Masturbation in Spain in the Early Twentieth Century. Richard Cleminson
The German Student Movement and Sexual Revolution. Ulrike Heider
The Misfortunes of Libertinage: Sexual Identities, de Sade and Anarchism. Karen Goaman and Mo Dodson
REVIEW ARTICLES
'Facts aren't Always the Most Interesting': Hagiology and Cultural Politics in Popular Music (George McKay)
Protest Movements and Violence (Karen Goaman)
The Paris Commune (Sharif Gemie)
The Political Crisis of Spanish Anarchism (Chris Ealham)

Vol.8 No.1
FEATURES
American Writers, Modernism, and Representations of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. Carol Vanderveer Hamilton
Tolstoy, God and Anarchism. Terry Hopton
REVIEW ARTICLES
Roads to Utopia (Ruth Kinna)
'Carrying it on': Politics as Culture; Culture as Politics in the Twentieth-Century American Left (Ron Mendel)
Habermas, the Postmodern Turn and their (Ir?)relevance to Anarchism (Karen Goaman and Mo Dodson)
Fanatics and Civil Society (Harold Barclay)

Vol.7 No.2:
Anarchism and Science Fiction
Anarchy in the Matrix: Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Lewis Call
An Exemplary Failure: Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After and the Dilemmas of Anarchist Utopian Fiction. Jesse Cohn
All the Sisters of Shora: An Anarcha/Ecofeminist Reading of Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean. Edrie Sobstyl
A 'double-dyed distilled detractor and denigrator of decency, dignity and decorum': Eric Frank Russell as Anarchist. Edward James
Borg: A Critical Encounter. Paul-F. Tremlett

Vol.7 No.1
FEATURES
Assassination, Self-Expression and Social Change. Cliff Hawkins
Green Anarchist. Chris Atton
DISCUSSION
Locke and Anarchism
REVIEW ARTICLES
Endless Deferral...Simulation, Surveillance, Social Postmodernism, Postsocialism... (Karen Goaman)
New Social Movements Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ian Welsh) Reforming Capitalism: The Endless Treadmill (John Crump)

Vol.6 No.2
FEATURES
Anarchism as Moral Theory: Praxis, Property, and the Postmodern. Randall Amster
Composition and Decomposition: Contemporary Anarchist Aesthetics. John Moore
Daoism and Anarchism Reconsidered. John A. Rapp
REVIEW ARTICLES
Historians, Anarchism and Political Culture (Sharif Gemie)
Liberal Democracy and its Discontents (Michael Levin)
Muggletonian Marxism (David Goodway)
The State in China and Japan (John Crump)

Vol.6 No.1
FEATURES
Locke and Anarchism: The Issue of Consent. Lewis Call
An Unencumbered Freedom: Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed Finn Bowring
Bookchin, Biehl, Brown: An Unbridgeable Chasm? Thomas Martin
DEBATE
Godwin and Nursey-Bray
REVIEW ARTICLES
Colin Ward on Social Policy (Ed Randall)
Taming the State (Michael Levin)
City Planning and the Anarchist Tradition (Mike Small)
The Anarchist Case, Propagated (Colin Ward)
Nineteenth Century American Utopias (Ronald Creagh)
Marginal Influences? (Jon Purkis)
Rhetoric and Rights (Judy Greenway)
Tea and Anarchy (Nicholas Walter)
Anarchy on the World Wide Web (Chris Atton)

Vol.5 No.2
Max Stirner: The Last Hegelian or the First Poststructuralist? Andrew M. Koch
Kropotkin and Spatial Social Theory: Unfolding an Anarchist Contribution. Shaun Huston
I'm Not Your Boss: The Paradox of the Anarchist Superhero. Josh Lukin
REVIEW ARTICLES
Anarchism and Poststructuralism. John Moore Anarchism
Social Movements and Sociology. Ian Welsh
The Bookchin Prescription. Colin Ward

Vol.5 No.1
FEATURES
The Revolutionary Underclass of Bakunin and Marcuse. Chris McDonald
Feyerabend, Dawkins and the Politics of Cultural Diversity Derek Gatherer
Sexuality and the Revolution of Mentalities Anarchism, Science and Sex in the Thought of Felix Marti Ibanez. Richard Cleminson
DEBATE
A Critique of van den Berg. John Crump A Repl to John Crump. Patricia Clark
REVIEW ARTICLES
The Anarchist canon. Robert Graham William Morris:
News from Everywhere. Ruth Kinna
Youth Culture, Situationism and Anarchy. Karen Goaman

Vol.4 No.2
FEATURES
Autonomy and Community: William Godwin and the Anarchist Project. Paul Nursey-Bray
Anarchy on the Internet: Obstacles and Opportunities for Alternative Electronic Publishing. Chris Atton
DEBATE.
A Reply to Murray Bookchin's Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (L. Susan Brown);
A Reply to Susan Brown (Janet Biehl)
REVIEW ARTICLES
The Anarchist's Eye on the Future: Theories and Culture. George McKay

Vol.4 No.1
FEATURES
'Free Love' in Imperial Germany: Anarchism and Patriarchy 1870 - 1918. Hubert van den Berg
The European Road to Nowhere: Anarchism and Direct Action against the UK Roads Programme. Ian Welsh and Phil McLeish
Anarchism and Nationalism in East Asia. John Crump
REVIEW ARTICLES
Taming the Market: Capitalism and the State. Michael Levin
All-American Anarchism. Tony Powell
Anti-Art: The Limits of Critique. Leigh Starcross
Papers about People and Power. Peter Cadogan
Revolution and Evolution. Ruth Kinna

Vol.3 No.2
Features
Feminism, Privacy and Radical Democracy. Val Plumwood
Chomsky, Propaganda and the Politics of Common Sense. Tom Jennings
Communitarian Anarchism and Human Nature. David Hartley
Review Articles
Active Currents. Karen Goaman Ecology and Politics. John Crump Encounters with Marx: Before and After Communism. Michael Levin The Legacy of Paul Goodman. Colin Ward
The Anarchism of George Woodcock. Peter Marshall

Vol.3 No.1
Features
The First Anarchist Daily Newspaper: The Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung.Jon Bekken
Malatesta and the Anarchist revolution. Paul Nursey-Bray
Anarchists, Violence and Social Change: Perspectives from Today's Grassroots. Andy Chan
Review Articles Markets, Money and Social Change. John Crump Gender, Sexuality and Anarchism. Judy Greenway
Images and Anarchism. John Moore
Ambassadors to the Reading Public. Colin Ward
Reformism and Anarchism. Sharif Gemie
Utopia in the Amazon. Brian Morris

Vol.2 No.2
Features
Ethics, Anarchy and Sustainable Development. Glenn Albrecht
Kropotkin, Self-valorization and the Crisis of Marxism. Harry Cleaver
Peter Marshall's Nature's Web. John Clark
Review articles
Green Politics. John Crump
The Place of Human Beings and other Animals in Nature. Andrew Belsey
Chaos and Anarchism. Graham Purchase
Planning and Freedom. Ursula Huws

Vol.2 No.1
Features
Mirbeau and Anarchism.Sharif Gemie
The Power-Persuasion-Identity Nexus: Anarchism and Actor-NAnarchistetworks. Mike Michael
Whither the Municipality? Defining the Municipal in Confederal Municipalism. Mike McConkey
Discussion
Social Anarchists or Economistic Syndicalists: A Real Split? Richard Cleminson
Review Articles
New Social Movements and Nonviolent Direct Action. Andrew Rigby
Anarchism and Terrorism. Ruth Kinna
Anarchism in China. John Crump
Confronting the State: East Europe. J. Frank Harrison

Vol.1 No.2
Features
Massachusetts 'Anarchy' in the 1780s. David Porter
Antisurveillance. Brian Martin
On the Present Situation of Anarchism in Japan. Mihara Yoko
Some Notes on 'Anarchism'. Alan Carter
Classical Anarchism: A Reply to Kinna. George Crowder
Reply to a Reply. Ruth Kinna
Review Articles
Still Demanding the Impossible? Michael Levin
Anarchist gangsters? David Berry
Fin de Siecle Anarchism. David Goodway
Kenneth Rexroth: Poetry, Politics and Mysticism. John Moore

Vol.1 No.1
Features
The Ghost of Anarcho-syndicalism. Murray Bookchin
First Steps Towards Mass Sex-economic Therapy? Wilhelm Reich and the Spanish Revolution.
Richard Cleminson The Anarchist Art of John Cage (1912-92). Richard Kostelanetz
Review Articles
George Crowder's Classical Anarchism and the Uniqueness of Kropotkin's Thought. Ruth Kinna
The End of Nature and the Bioregional Vision. Brian Morris
Apocalypse And/Or Metamorphosis:
A Surre(gion)al View. Max Cafard