1st Edition

Reassessing the Transnational Turn Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies

Edited By Constance Bantman, Bert Altena Copyright 2015
252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of... Read more

Part I: Introduction  1. Introduction: Problematizing Scales of Analysis in Network-Based Social Movements  Constance Bantman and Bert Altena  Part II: Anarchist Theories of Nation, State, and Internationalism  2. Nations Without Borders: Anarchists and National Identity  Davide Turcato  3. Kropotkin’s Theory of the State: A Transnational Approach  Ruth Kinna  4. A Networking Historian: The Transnational, the National and the Patriotic in and Around Max Nettlau’s Geschichte der Anarchie  Bert Altena  Part III: Transnational Practices and Identities, Diasporic Cultures  5. Anarchists as Emigrants  Isabelle Felici  6. A Golden Gate of Anarchy: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Anarchism in San Francisco, 1880s-1930s  Kenyon Zimmer  7. “The Game of the Goose” Italian Anarchism: Transnational, National, or Local Perspective?  Pietro DiPaula  8. Sedentary Anarchists  Raymond Craib  Part IV: The Resilience of Localism and Nationalism  9. More Than an Antonym: A Close(r) Look at the Dichotomy Between the National and Anarchism  Nino Kühnis  10. The Dangerous Liaisons of Belle-Epoque Anarchists: Internationalism, Transnationalism, Nationalism in the French Anarchist Movement (1880-1914)  Constance Bantman  11. “Mother Spain, We Love You!”: Nationalism and Racism in Anarchist Literature During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)  Martin Baxmeyer

Biography

Constance Bantman is lecturer in French at the University of Surrey.

Bert Altena is a former lecturer at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication.