Anarchism

This book is a profound search for a theory of social change.

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive.

'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William GodwinWilliam Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

Political obligation refers to the moral obligation of citizens to obey the law of their state and to the existence, nature, and justification of a special relationship between a government and its constituents.

This volume traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx's teaching on his followers.

';One of the world's most widely read social scientists' (New York Times) offers his most personal and accessible booka celebration of how ordinary people can resist oppression and injusticeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state.

This book reveals Marx's moral philosophy and analyzes its nature.

Successive waves of global protest since 1999 have encouraged leading contemporary political theorists to argue that politics has fundamentally changed in the last twenty years, with a new type of politics gaining momentum over elite, representative institutions.

Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic ritual played out in an iconic public space has provided a potent symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a feature of European life under the rule of "e;austerity.

A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state.

Though widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the World's leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the first book-length biography of Frank Little.

After escaping from forced residency on an island off the coast of Italy, Malatesta made his way to London and eventually Paterson, New Jersey, in 1899.

This study examines Marx's disputes with, and attacks upon, those anarchist theoreticians he encountered at various stages of his career.

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world.

"e;Karastoyanov's novel is set in Bulgaria in the 1920s, but also invokes the spirit of John Lennon, and brings to mind Dostoevsky's Demons with its anarchists and assassins, lighthouses, zeppelins, and synthesis of modernist narrative techniques and Balkan storytelling.

This book, first published in 1965, is a scrupulously fair study of the origins and evolution of Castroism and an assessment of the impact of the Cuban revolution and of Castro's subsequent domestic and foreign policies on the rest of Latin America.

An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Millerand to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape ';the air-conditioned nightmare' of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's critical reputationif not his popular readershiphas been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in Sexual Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art.

In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics.

The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's Trade Center twin towers, the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent austerity, and latterly Brexit, the rise and fall (for now) of Donald Trump, including the Capitol attack, and Covid-19.

Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars.

Over the last sixty years many radicals have had their eyes opened by the writing of Maurice Brinton.

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy.

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality.

Contesting conventional assumptions of the modern nation-state, this book challenges us to rethink the segmentation of the political realm and its underlying economic and social processes.

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project.

This is the first book by Carlos Taibo, a prolific and well-known social theorist in Spain, to be translated into English.

This book delves into the rich history of Spanish anarchism, tracing its development from its early roots in the late 19th century through the Spanish Civil War.

This book explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice?

This timely book introduces readers to anarchism's relationship to broader history, offering not only a history of anarchism in the modern period, but a critical introduction to debates on anarchist history.

';Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited.

This original and impressively researched book explores the concept of anarchyunimposed orderas the most humane and stable form of order in a chaotic world.

Were the occupations of 2010-11 - from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street - a success or failure?

War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought.

The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing agendas.

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project.

Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice.

The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma - first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive follower.

Rudolf Rocker's classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain.

In Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities Bernd Reiter contributes to the ongoing efforts to decolonize the social sciences and humanities, by arguing that true decolonization implies a liberation from the elite culture that Western civilization has perpetually promoted.

In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence.

The first English translation of Gurins monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one volume.

Anarchism is by far the least broadly understood ideology and the least studied academically.

The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism.

"e;Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen instead of the Molotov cocktail.

Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism.