NEW DEVELOPMENTS in ANARCHIST STUDIES Thought | Crimes 2015 NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ANARCHIST STUDIES pj lilley, Jeff Shantz & each of the respective authors, 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This work is Open Access, which means that you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work as long as you clearly attribute the work to the author, that you do not use this work for commercial gain in any form whatsoever, and that you in no way, alter, transform, or build upon the work outside of its normal use in academic scholarship without express permission of the author and the publisher of this volume. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. First published in 2015 by Thought | Crimes an imprint of punctumbooks.com ISBN-13: 978-0988234093 ISBN-10: 0988234092 and the full (color!) book is available for download at www.thoughtcrimespress.org a project of the Critical Criminology Working Group, publishers of the Open Access Journal: R ADICAL C RIMINOLOGY : journal.radicalcriminology.org Contact: Jeff Shantz (Editor), Dept. of Criminology, KPU 12666 72 Ave. Surrey, BC V3W 2M8 NAASN :: North American Anarchist Studies Network / La Red Norteamericana de Estudios Anarquistas / Le Réseau Nord-Américain d'études Anarchistes This collection is based on contributions compiled from the open call for papers for the 5th Annual NAASN Conference (held January 2014, in Surrey, on unceded Coast Salish territories) NAASN . ORG Conferences: 2009: Hartford, CT | 2011: Toronto, ON | 2012: San Juan, Puerto Rico | 2013: New Orleans, LA | 2014: Surrey, BC (Coast Salish Territories) | 2015: San Francisco, CA This 2014 conference was organized by the Critical Criminology Working Group (including faculty, students & comrades of the KPU Criminology Dept.) AND with the support of a grant from the Faculty of Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University AND with the support of the Kwantlen Student Association and the KPU Criminology Student Society — naasn2014.org & 2014.naasn.org — built with free, open source software, ‘Open Conference Systems’ from the Public Knowledge Project @ Simon Fraser University—http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs} [ design & open format publishing by pj lilley ] iii Contents 1 | Anarchism from the Margins: Introducing New Developments in Anarchist Studies ........................................1 Jeff Shantz 2 | Social Capital In Anarchist Movements.............................11 Dana M. Williams 3 | Marginalization of Anarchism within Mainstream Criminology: A Content Analysis........................................37 Christopher Howell 4 | Sexuality, Assault, Police Infiltration and Foucault: Notes for Further Inquiry........................................................63 Dr. Michael Loadenthal 5 | Abolition Journal, Introduction & Manifesto ................89 Introduced by Brian Lovato & Eli Meyerhoff 6 | In Defense of Counterposed Strategic Orientations: Anarchism and Antiracism......................................................97 Jakub Burkowicz 7 | Anti-State Resistance On Stolen Land: Settler Colonialism, Settler Identity And The Imperative Of Anarchist Decolonization........................................................145 Adam Gary Lewis 8 | A Diversity of Media Tactics: Grassroots Autonomous Media in Montreal .......................................187 Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Aaron Lakoff and→ v vi | New Developments in Anarchist Studies Rachel Sarrasin—Collectif de recherche sur l’autonomie collective (CRAC) 9 | Radical Politics in a Conservative Capital: Anarchist Groups and Projects in Edmonton...............199 Robert Hlatky 10 | The Right to the City Begins on the Street.................249 Dr. Katherine Dunster 11 | Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept........................................................................................331 James Gifford 12 | ¡Mesoamerica Resiste! Excerpts from the companion guide to the graphic narrative........................................... 357 with the Beehive Design Collective Appendix 1: NAASN Statement of Purpose..............363 Appendix 2: NAASN5 Call for Papers (Fall, 2013)...366 Appendix 3: NAASN5 Full Schedule + + Forum on Indigenous Food Sovereignty + Surrey Anarchist Bookfair ..............................369 Appendix 4: A few words about Surrey......................372 Appendix 5: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Forum..374 Appendix 6: Surrey Anarchist Bookfair Poster.........382 Appendix 7: Surrey Anarchist Bookfair Tablers.........383 1 | Anarchism from the Margins: Introducing New Developments in Anarchist Studies Jeff Shantz1 narchism is enjoying a rather remarkable renais­ A sance, in theory and in practice, through the first decades of the twenty­first century. Notably this renais­ sance is taking place simultaneously in the streets and in the schools, in activism as well as in academia. The reas­ ons for the resurgence of anarchism are varied but without question the primary impetus has been the community op­ position to neoliberal capitalist globalism and associated regimes of austerity and repression along with the pressing fact of ecological crisis. Many are inspired to act by the enormity of current social and ecological harms and the 1 Jeff Shantz teaches in the criminology department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey 1 2 | New Developments in Anarchist Studies growing realization among wider sectors of the popula­ tion that these are not problems that can be resolved with­ in the framework of state managed capitalist develop­ ment. At the same time many among newer generations of activists, and some of the earlier generations, have seen or learned from the failures of previous frameworks of resistance politics, particularly the statist forms of the various Marxisms and social democracies. For many, an­ archism stands as the most promising basis for analyzing and understanding contemporary capitalist societies and for informing an opposition to capitalist arrangements in such as way as to pose a realistic, positive, liberatory al­ ternative. In the North American context it is reasonable to sug­ gest that anarchism, both as social movement and as so­ cial theory, is presently at the highest level of activity and influence it has achieved at least since the flourishing of New Left politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also safe to say that the diversity and depth of anarchist ideas, and the range of research and scholarship, are well beyond that achieved in that earlier wave (which does not detract from the great quality of many of those works of the 1960s and 1970s). Not only areas of study for which anarchism has a more ready association, such as soci­ ology or politics, but fields such as horticulture, literary criticism, aeasthetics, urbanism, and technology studies among others have seen developments in anarchist re­ search. Introduction: Anarchism from the Margins | 3 Impetus Significantly, social developments in terms of struggle and resistance have intersected with developments in terms of academic research and scholarship at various levels. Younger people engaged in struggles in the streets against capitalist globalization and neoliberal austerity have entered the post­secondary classrooms bringing their critique of existing structures with them and turning their critical eye toward academic disciplines that too often re­ inforce or sustain existing relations of power rather than, as scholarship should anyway, contesting them. At the same time current students are faced with the political im­ potency and inaction of the recent challengers to radical theory, notably postmodernism and postructuralism and various cultural theories that have lost attentiveness to political and economic structures of power, exploitation, and inequality, and which have substituted detached per­ sonalistic cynicism for engaged collective action. And such “critical” theories have proven of little use as tools in the most pressing struggles of the day, particularly against neoliberal austerity and the new enclosures of land and labor. Indeed, the trajectory of postmodernist theorizing has shown it to be too easily rendered an apo­ logy for or facilitator of such processes. The new scholars have sought alternatives to moribund mainstream and orthodox theories and, as they may have in the streets, found overlooked, forgotten, discarded his­ tories of critical and radical theory that provide better, 4 | New Developments in Anarchist Studies more insightful answers to their questions—they have found anarchism. Notably they have found that not only does anarchism address important contemporary con­ cerns, they have also found that anarchist theory was of­ ten present at the inception of the academic field they are studying yet has been written out of the disciplinary re­ cord with only status quo political motivations to answer why. Attention, thus, has been given to applying anarch­ ist analysis to understanding and advancing social struggles but also to rethinking the narratives framing re­ cognized academic disciplines and scholarly practices. From the Margins: The NAASN Conference In the present context there is growing interest in anarch­ ism as an important area of scholarly activity. In the cur­ rent period anarchism has emerged as a vital critical per­ spective within disciplines as diverse as criminology and literary studies, geography and communications. At