The Continuum Companion to Anarchism 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd i 6/9/2001 3:18:11 PM The Continuum Companion to Anarchism Edited by Ruth Kinna 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd iii 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Ruth Kinna and Contributors, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitt ed, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the permission of the publishers. E ISBN: 978-1-4411-4270-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record of this title is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in the United States of America 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd iv 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contents Contributors viii Acknowledgements xiv Part I – Research on Anarchism 1 Introduction 3 Ruth Kinna Part II – Approaches to Anarchist Research 2 Research Methods and Problems: Postanarchism 41 Saul Newman 3 Anarchism and Analytic Philosophy 50 Benjamin Franks 4 Anarchism and Art History: Methodologies of Insurrection 72 Allan Antliff 5 Participant Observation 86 Uri Gordon 6 Anarchy, Anarchism and International Relations 96 Alex Prichard Part III – Current Research in Anarchist Studies 7 Bridging the Gaps: Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Anarchist Thought 111 Carissa Honeywell 8 The Hitchhiker as Theorist: Rethinking Sociology and Anthropology from an Anarchist Perspective 140 Jonathan Purkis 9 Genders and Sexualities in Anarchist Movements 162 Sandra Jeppesen and Holly Nazar v 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd v 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contents 10 Literature and Anarchism 192 David Goodway 11 Anarchism and the Future of Revolution 212 Laurence Davis 12 Social Ecology 233 Andy Price 1 3 Leyendo el anarchismo a través de ojos latinoamericanos : Reading Anarchism through Latin American Eyes 252 Sara C. Mo a 14 Geographies and Urban Space 278 Ian G. Cook and Joanne Norcup 15 There Ain’t No Black in the Anarchist Flag! Race, Ethnicity and Anarchism 299 Süreyyya Evren 16 Where to Now? Future Directions for Anarchist Research 315 Ruth Kinna Part IV – Materials for Further Research 17 Key terms 329 M a hew Wilson and Ruth Kinna 18 Resources 353 19 Bibliographies, Reference Materials and Reading Lists 390 Bibliographies 390 Reading Lists and Course Guides 394 Catalogued Collections 395 Reference Works/Encyclopaedia 395 Documentary Histories 396 Dissertations 398 Review Journals 398 Zines 399 Academic Journals: Special Issues 399 Bibliographical Essays: A Guide to Non-English Language Sources 401 Works on Anarchism: The Low Countries 401 Bert Altena Anarchism in France 404 David Berry vi 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd vi 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contents Anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Libertarian Movement in Spain, Portugal and Latin America 411 Richard Cleminson Italian Anarchism 417 Pietro Di Paola The Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden 420 Gabriel Kuhn The Anarchist Revival in Russian Historiography 428 Martin A. Miller Chinese Works on Anarchism in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), 1949–2010 433 John A. Rapp Anarchist Literatures in the German-Speaking World 439 Peter Seyferth and Gabriel Kuhn Index 451 vii 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd vii 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contributors Bert Altena is Assistant Professor in the Modern and Contemporary History of Western societies at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University, Rott erdam. He has published widely on labour history and the history of anarchism. He is currently completing a biography of an unknown worker and planning research on the role of the nation and nationalism in the work of Max Nett lau. A longer-term project is to write a history of anarchism in the Netherlands. Allan Antliff is the Canada Research Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Director of the Anarchist Archive, University of Victoria, Art Editor for the journals Anarchist Studies and Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism . Antliff has authored two books, Anarchist Modernism (2001) and Art and Anarchy (2007) and edited Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (2004). Active as a theorist and historian of anarchism, he has writt en on a wide range of topics including radical pedagogy, post-structuralism and aesthetics. He has published numerous art reviews and feature articles in journals such as Canadian Art Magazine , Fuse , C Magazine and Galleries West and contributed to exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery and other institutions. David Berry has researched and published on the history of the French anarchist movement, the post-1945 libertarian communist current, the contemporary ‘alter- native le ’ and most recently Daniel Guérin. He is the author of A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 (Westview, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002) and co-editor, with Constance Bantman of New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University. Richard Cleminson is Reader in the History of Sexuality in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds. He has worked on the his- tory of the reception of ideas on sexuality in Spanish anarchism and on the his- tory of sexuality more generally in Spain. He is now writing a history of eugenics viii 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd viii 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contributors in Portugal. His most recent book is Anarchism and Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power (Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2011) (edited with Jamie Heckert) and he has previously published Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960 (Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009) and ‘Los Invisibles’: A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1939 (Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007) (both with F. Vázquez García). Ian G. Cook is now Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at Liverpool John Moores University. An experienced teacher, researcher and PhD supervisor Ian has co-edited or co-authored nine books to date and helped supervise 17 PhDs to com- pletion. His interest in anarchism goes back to the 1970s and he was co-editor with David Pepper of Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) of Anarchism and Geography in 1990; this was the fi nal issue of the radical campaigning journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education . Laurence Davis is Lecturer in Government at University College Cork, Ireland. A Series Editor of the Contemporary Anarchist Studies book series published by Continuum Press, and a founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network, he has taught politics and sociology at a wide range of universities in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including Oxford University, Ruskin College, University College Dublin, the National University of Ireland Galway and the National University of Ireland Maynooth, where he co-created the new MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism. His recent publications include Anarchism and Utopianism (Manchester University Press, 2009, co-edited with Ruth Kinna), The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2005, co-edited with Peter Stillman) and numerous articles and book chapters on anar- chist and utopian political thought, democratic and revolutionary theory and prac- tice and the politics of art, work and love. He is also an active participant in a range of social movements including the Irish Ship to Gaza campaign, of which he is a Coordinator and Spokesperson. Pietro Di Paola is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln. He is inter- ested in the experience of anarchist exiles and he is currently writing a monograph entitled The Knights-Errant of Anarchy. London and the Diaspora of Italian Anarchists (1870–1914) for LUP. He is also engaged in a research on British deserters in World War II. Süreyyya Evren teaches at Kultur University, Istanbul, and writes on contempo- rary art, literature and radical politics. He has published several books in Turkish and several articles in English and German. He is the editor and founder of the postanarchist magazine Siyahi and the postanarchist journal Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies. His collection, Post-Anarchism: A Reader , co-edited with Duane Rousselle, was published by Pluto in 2011. ix 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd ix 6/9/2001 3:18:14 PM Contributors Benjamin Franks is Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms (AK Press, 2006) and co-editor with Matt hew Wilson of Anarchism and Moral Philosophy (Palgrave, 2010). David Goodway taught history to mainly adult students from 1969 until the University of Leeds closed its School of Continuing Education in 2005. His fi rst book was London Chartism 1838–1848 . But for 20 years he has writt en principally on anarchism and libertarian socialism, publishing collections of the writings of Alex Comfort, Herbert Read, ‘Maurice Brinton’ and Nicolas Walter and of the cor- respondence between John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman; Talking Anarchy with Colin Ward ; as well as Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow: Left -Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward, now reissued in a second edi- tion by PM Press. Uri Gordon (DPhil, Oxon) is the author of Anarchy Alive! and numerous articles on contemporary anarchism. He is currently active in Israel with the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality and Anarchists against the Wall. Uri has participated in local squatt ing, independent media and community garden initiatives as well as in the PGA, Indymedia and Dissent! networks.