The Anarchist Imagination Is More Than a Comprehensive Introduction to Anarchist and Anarchist-Inspired Scholarship Across the Disciplines
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“The Anarchist Imagination is more than a comprehensive introduction to anarchist and anarchist-inspired scholarship across the disciplines. It is a clear and unambiguous testament to the vitality of anarchist thought both within and without the academy. I cannot endorse it strongly enough.” – Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University, USA “These wide-ranging essays trace anarchism’s extensive intersections with academic fields and studies. Anarchism’sinfluence, the essays demonstrate, is impressively wide and appears both directly, in the relevance of recognized authors, texts and events, and indirectly, in the spill-over of anarchist ways of asking questions and pursuing inquiries into key concepts such as power, order, and change.” – Kathy E. Ferguson, University of Hawai'i, USA This page intentionally left blank The Anarchist Imagination This is a broad ranging introduction to twenty-first-century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives. The book demonstrates how the anarchist imagination has influenced the humanities and social sciences including anthropology, art, feminism, geography, international relations, political science, postcolonialism, and sociology. Drawing on a long historical narrative that encompasses the ‘waves’ of anarchist movements from the classical anarchists (1840s to 1940s), the post-war wave of student, counter-cultural, and workers’ control anarchism of the 1960s and 1970s to the DIY politics and Temporary Autonomous Zones of the 1990s right up to the Occupy! Movement and beyond, the aim of this volume is to cover the humanities and the social sciences in an era of anarchist revival in academia. Anarchist philosophy and anarchistic methodologies have re-emerged in a range of disciplines from Organization Studies, to Law, to Political Economy to Political Theory and International Relations, and Anthropology to Cultural Studies. Anarchist approaches to freedom, democracy, ethics, violence, authority, punishment, homelessness, and the arbitration of justice have spawned a broad array of academic publications and research projects. But this volume remembers an older story, in other words, the continuous role of the anarchist imagination as muse, provocateur, goading adversary, and catalyst in the stimulation of research and creative activity in the humanities and social sciences from the middle of the nineteenth century to today. This work will be essential reading for scholars and students of anarchism, the humanities, and the social sciences. Carl Levy is a Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of twelve single-authored and edited books and over 75 journal articles and chapters in books. Saul Newman (PhD UNSW 1998) is a Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His research is in continental political theory, postanar- chism and radical political thought. His most recent publication is Political Theology: A Critical Introduction (2018). Interventions The Series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first 5 years we have published 60 volumes. We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics. We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: just contact us for advice or proposal guidelines. Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors: • Jenny Edkins ([email protected]) and • Nick Vaughan-Williams ([email protected]). ‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, "knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" In this spirit The Edkins - Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in inter- national relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopoli- tical imaginary.’ Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe Maurice Stierl EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality Turkey and Beyond Hanna L. Muehlenhoff Autonomy of Migration? Appropriating Mobility within Biometric Border Regimes Stephan Scheel The Anarchist Imagination Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences Carl Levy and Saul Newman For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/series/INT The Anarchist Imagination Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences Edited by Carl Levy and Saul Newman First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Carl Levy and Saul Newman; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Carl Levy and Saul Newman to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Levy, Carl, 1951- editor. | Newman, Saul, 1972- editor. Title: The anarchist imagination : anarchism encounters the humanities and the social sciences / edited by Carl Levy and Saul Newman. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2018057716 (print) | LCCN 2019005002 (ebook) | ISBN 9781315693163 (eBook) | ISBN 9781138781184 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138782761 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Anarchism--Philosophy. | Social sciences--Research--Political aspects. | Humanities--Research--Political aspects. Classification: LCC HX833 (ebook) | LCC HX833 .A5697 2019 (print) | DDC 335/.83-- dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057716 ISBN: 978-1-138-78118-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-78276-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-69316-3 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books Contents List of tables ix List of contributors x Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction: Anarchism encounters the humanities and the social sciences 1 CARL LEVY 2 The two anarchies: The Arab uprisings and the question of an anarchist sociology 30 MOHAMMED A. BAMYEH 3 Contesting the state of nature: Anarchism and International Relations 42 ZAHEER KAZMI 4 Anarchism and Critical Security Studies 62 CHRIS ROSSDALE 5 Postanarchism today: Anarchism and political theory 81 SAUL NEWMAN 6 Anarchism and political science: History and anti-science in radical thought 95 RUTH KINNA 7 Toward an anarchist-feminist analytics of power 110 SANDRA JEPPESEN 8 Loving politics: On the art of living together 132 VISHWAM J. HECKERT 9 Black flag mapping: Emerging themes in anarchist geography 146 ANTHONY INCE 10 In dialogue: Anarchism and postcolonialism 163 MAIA RAMNATH viii Contents 11 What is law? 181 ELENA LOIZIDOU 12 Anarchism and education studies 194 JUDITH SUISSA 13 Anarchism and religious studies 210 ALEXANDRE CHRISTOYANNOPOULOS 14 Aesthetics of tension 229 ALLAN ANTLIFF 15 Conclusion in three acts: False genealogies and suspect methodologies? 240 CARL LEVY Index 259 Tables 2.1 Basic features of self-conscious and organic anarchy 32 2.2 Anarchist sociology as synthesis 37 7.1 Toward an anarchist-feminist analytics of power 114 Contributors Allan Antliff: Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, Canada. Mohammed Bamyeh: Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos: Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough Uni- versity, UK. Vishwam Jamie Heckert: Independent Scholar, Yoga Teacher and Healer, UK. Anthony Ince: Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Sandra Jeppesen: Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies/Media Studies and Research University Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements, Media Studies Programme, Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Lakehead University Orillia, Canada Zaheer Kazmi: Senior Research Fellow, Mitchell Institute of Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University