The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism

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Carl Levy, Matthew S. Adams
Springer, Jun 22, 2018 - Political Science - 750 pages
This handbook unites leading scholars from around the world in exploring anarchism as a political ideology, from an examination of its core principles, an analysis of its history, and an assessment of its contribution to the struggles that face humanity today. Grounded in a conceptual and historical approach, each entry charts what is distinctive about the anarchist response to particular intellectual, political, cultural and social phenomena, and considers how these values have changed over time. At its heart is a sustained process of conceptual definition and an extended examination of the core claims of this frequently misunderstood political tradition. It is the definitive scholarly reference work on anarchism as a political ideology, and should be a crucial text for scholars, students, and activists alike.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Core ProblemsProblématiques
24
The State
25
Individual and Community
47
Freedom
70
AntiCapitalism and Libertarian Political Economy
91
Tactics Conceptions of Social Change Revolution and Anarchist Organisation
107
Anarchism and Cosmopolitanism
124
The Era of Propaganda by the Deed
370
Anarchism and the First World War
389
Anarchism and Marxism in the Russian Revolution
408
The Spanish Civil War
429
Glossary of Political Groups
442
Anarchism and 1968
449
From the Zapatistas to Seattle The New Anarchists
471
Applications
489

AntiImperialism
149
Anarchism and Religion
169
Anarchism and Science
193
Core Traditions
210
Mutualism
213
Individualism
225
Anarchist Communism
237
Syndicalism
248
AnarchaFeminism
265
Green Anarchism
280
Postanarchism
293
Key EventsHistory
304
The French Revolution and 1848
307
Anarchism and the First International
325
The Spectre of the Commune and French Anarchism in the 1890s
343
Haymarket and the Rise of Syndicalism
353
Utopianism and Intentional Communities
491
Anarchist Education
511
The City Urban Planning and Architecture
530
Anarchism and Ethics
549
Literature and Anarchism
570
Anarchism and Art
589
Gender and Sexuality
603
PostIndustrial and Digital Society
623
Farming and Food
640
Anarchism and the Newest Social Movements
659
NonWestern Anarchisms and Postcolonialism
677
Anarchism and Indigeneity
697
Squares Occupy Movements and the Arab Revolutions
715
Index
733
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Carl Levy is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of eleven single-authored and edited books and over 75 journal articles and chapters in edited books.
Matthew S. Adams is Lecturer in Politics, History and Communication at Loughborough University, UK. His first book focused on the work of Peter Kropotkin and Herbert Read, and examined their efforts to articulate a distinctive anarchist politics. He has published on parallel themes in a number of intellectual history and history of political thought journals.