1st Edition
Constructive Anarchy Building Infrastructures of Resistance
By Jeff Shantz
Copyright 2010
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Constructive Anarchy, the result of more than a decade of direct study within a variety of anarchist projects, provides the most wide-ranging and detailed analysis of current anarchist endeavours. The compelling discussions of anarchism and union organising, anti-poverty work and immigrant and refugee defence represent truly groundbreaking undertakings from a rising scholar of contemporary... Read more
Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 Organizing Anarchy: Debates and Directions; Chapter 2 “Seize the Switches”: Media and Anarchy; Chapter 3 Whatever it Takes: The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; Chapter 4 Anarchy at Work: Developing Workers’ Autonomy; Chapter 5 Building Bridges: Anarchism, Borders and Resistance; Chapter 6 Anarchy Goes to School: The Anarchist Free Skool; Chapter 7 Re-Thinking Revolution: A Constructive Anarchist Approach; “Quiet Revolutions”: Constructive Anarchy and Mutual Aid;
Biography
Jeff Shantz, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
'Few sociologists have been as astute observers of the modern anarchist movement as Jeff Shantz. His "Constructive Anarchy" is, hands down, the best study available of anarchism’s active vision for, and practical experimentation with, the transformation of society.' Dana M. Williams, Valdosta State University, USA 'Constructive Anarchy powerfully confirms the Marxian adage that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created. Shantz portrays anarchism here less as a renunciation of what exists than a celebration of positive assemblages of new praxes. It should give hope to us all.' Roger Keil, York University, Canada
