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Constructive Anarchy
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 anarchism. Organised to illustrate the development of the diversity of anarchist strategies and tactics over time, the book begins with a discussion of alternative media projects before turning attention to anarchist involvement in broader community-based movements. Case studies include a discussion of anarchists and rank-and-file workplace organising, anarchist anti-borders struggles and \"No One Is Illegal\" movements in defence of immigrants and refugees since 9/11, and anarchist free schools and community centres. Jeff Shantz's analysis demonstrates serious and grounded practices rooted in anarchist organising: practices that may draw on previous traditions and practices but also innovate and experiment. The varied selection of case studies allows the author to compare groups that are geared primarily towards anarchist and radical subcultures with anarchist involvement in more diverse community-based coalitions, an approach that is otherwise lacking in the literature on contemporary anarchism.
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Manufacturing Phobias
Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and – when it is manipulated – a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and social policy and advance their own agendas.
The contributors to the collection, experts in criminology, law, sociology, and politics, explain how and why social phobias are created by pundits, politicians, and the media, and how they target the most vulnerable in our society. Emphasizing how social phobias reflect the interests of those with political, economic, and cultural power, this work challenges the idea that society’s anxieties are merely expressions of individual psychology. Manufacturing Phobias will be a clarion call for anyone concerned about the disturbing consequences of our culture of fear.
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Against All Authority
This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production. Anarchists have used literary production to express opposition to values and relations characterizing advanced capitalist (and socialist) societies while also expressing key aspects of the alternative values and institutions proposed within anarchism. Among favoured themes are anarchist critiques of corporatization, prisons and patriarchal relations as well as explorations of developing anarchist perspectives on revolution, ecology, polysexuality and mutual aid. A key component of anarchist perspectives is the belief that means and ends must correspond. Thus in anarchist literature as in anarchist politics, a radical approach to form is as important as content. Anarchist literature joins other critical approaches to creative production in attempting to break down divisions between readers and writer, audience and artist, encouraging all to become active participants in the creative pr.
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Green Syndicalism
It is widely understood that the burdens of ecological
destruction are borne disproportionately by working-class and poor
communities, both through illness and disease caused by pollutants
and through the depletion of natural resources from which they make
a living. Yet, consistently, the voices of the working class are
the most marginalized, excluded, and silenced when discussing how
to address ecological concerns and protect the environment from
future destruction. Both mainstream environmental groups, such as
the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, and radical environmentalists, such
as EarthFirst!, are reluctant to engage with working-class and poor
communities, often viewing blue-collar workers as responsible for
the destruction these groups are trying to prevent. In Green
Syndicalism , Shantz issues a call to action to the
environmental movement and labor activists, particularly rank and
file workers, to join forces in a common struggle to protect the
environment from capitalism, corporate greed, and the extraction of
resources. He argues for a major transformation to address the
\"jobs versus the environment\" rhetoric that divides these two
groups along lines of race and class. Combining practical
initiatives and theoretical perspectives, Shantz offers an approach
that brings together radical ecology and revolutionary unionism in
a promising vision of green politics. Green syndicalists work as
coalitions to increase community-based economics and productive
decision making that encourages the participation of all
stakeholders in the process. Drawing, in part, on his own
experiences growing up in a working-class family and organizing
within radical ecology and labor movements, Shantz charts a path
that accesses the commonalities between these groups in an effort
to take on the forces that destroy the environment, exploit people,
and harm their communities.
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Anarchy and Society
'Anarchy and Society' explores the many ways in which the discipline of sociology and the philosophy of anarchism are compatible. The book constructs possible parameters for a future 'anarchist sociology', by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers, as well as an anarchist interrogration of key sociological concepts.
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