Description
Book SynopsisThe essential reader on Post-Anarchism, a movement blending traditional anarchist ideas with post-structuralist and post-modernist thought.
Trade Review'Collects together key readings in post-anarchist theory and highlights the complexity and diversity of this current of thought. Acknowledging the critical attention post-anarchism has received, it provides an excellent guide to the central themes of contemporary debate. A marvellous, valuable book' -- Ruth Kinna, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University. Editor of Anarchist Studies and author of The Beginner's Guide to Anarchism (2009).
'I would expect readers at all academic levels, from undergraduates and/or street activists right up to the highest levels of academia, to find this work intellectually stimulating, exciting and fresh' -- Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex
Table of ContentsPreface by Duane Rousselle
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Süreyyya Evren
PART 1: When Anarchism Met Post-structuralism
1. Post-structuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism by Andrew Koch
2. Is Post-structuralist Political Theory Anarchist? by Todd May
3. The Politics of Post-anarchism by Saul Newman
4. Post-anarchism Anarchy by Hakim Bey
PART 2: Post-anarchism Hits the Streets
5. Empowering Anarchy: Power, Hegemony, and Anarchist Strategy by Tadzio Mueller
6. Hegemony, Affinity, and the Newest Social Movements at the End of the 00s by Richard J. F. Day
7. The Constellation of Opposition by Jason Adams
8. Acracy_Reloaded@post1968/1989: Reflections on Postmodern Revolutions by Antón Fernendez de Rota
PART 3: Classical Anarchism Reloaded
9. Things to do with Post-structuralism in a Life of Anarchy: Relocating the Outpost of Post-anarchism by Sandra Jeppesen
10. Anarchy, Power and Post-structuralism by Alan Antliff
11. Post-anarchism: A Partial Account by Benjamin Franks
PART 4: Lines of Flight
12. Buffy the Post-anarchist/Vampire Slayer by Lewis Call
13. Sexuality as State-Form by Jamie Heckert
14. When Theories Meet: Emma Goldman and 'Post-anarchism' by Hilton Bertalan
15. Reconsidering Post-structuralism and Anarchism by Nathan Jun
16. A Post-anarchist Politics of Technology by Michael Truscello
Notes on Contributors
Index
