This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form ...of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.
While moments of historic rupture do usher in radically new conditions for claiming urban space and power, the eras they cleave do not align neatly in the lives of the urban precariat. Rather, they ...overspill and interdigitate, saturating the present. This paper vivifies heterotemporality as an analytic, rather than descriptive, category for urban politics and scholarship. Drawing together Walter Benjamin's radical mode of historical and image‐centric inquiry with Mimi Nguyen's and Dai Jinhua's critiques of recombinant imperial formations, I seek to unsettle the uncritical chronopolitics of rupture that has practically and discursively undergirded dispossession in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Arguing against strategic representations of urban rupture as only a break from the past, I offer instead a dialectical conception of rupture as interacting movements of break and amplification of the past in the present. Advancing ‘archiveology’ as an urban research praxis that activates a heterotemporal, collective urban archive – composed of the built landscape, oral accounts, historical records and filmic representations – shocks the potential of what has been, constellating alternative politics of the present. I suggest that this theoretical‐methodological framework offers critical insights beyond Phnom Penh, especially for other historic‐geographies that have been strategically attenuated via categorical post‐s (e.g., post‐colonial, post‐socialist, post‐conflict).
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Arguing against strategic representations of urban rupture as only a break from the past, this paper offers instead a dialectical conception of rupture as interacting movements of break and amplification of the past in the present. Methodologically, the paper advances ‘archiveology’ as an urban research praxis that actives a heterotemporal, collective urban archive in order to shock the potential of ‘what has been’, for an alternative politics of the present.
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.
One of the most modern currents of anarchism - crypto-anarchism - arose as a response to the global development of digital technologies and the Internet and operates exclusively within the framework ...of the “global web”. The paper attempts to study one of the most unusual branches of anarchist philosophy and its impact on the digital life and politics of several states. With the help of functional and comparative methods of political research, the author analyzes crypto-anarchism as part of the ideology of anarchism, the main goal of which is to find out how viable crypto-anarchism is as an independent movement. The article raises the question of whether the ideas of crypto-anarchism can be used to effectively address current socio-political problems. The theoretical basis of crypto-anarchism looks more and more relevant, as it affects the security of the individual on the Web and is aimed at fighting against widespread state control. Despite the fact that, as the study showed, cryptoanarchism as a movement does not have sufficient elaboration and influence on real politics, its deeper study can be useful for preparing political programs aimed at Internet users (which constitute around 62.5 % of the global population), as well as studying political models and their development paths using virtual simulations and virtual states (Liberland, Wirtland), which are characteristic of crypto-anarchism.
El trabajo analiza un corpus de fanzines producidos durante los años 1986-1993 en distintas ciudades de la provincia de Buenos Aires y en la capital argentina. Confeccionadas con técnicas y ...materiales asequibles que no perseguían fines de lucro, estas publicaciones formaban parte de distintas iniciativas político-culturales ligadas al activismo anarquista y la escena del punk underground. Adoptando una perspectiva metodológica para la cual las revistas constituyen objetos polivalentes y heterogéneos, nuestro análisis considera sus dimensiones materiales, textuales y visuales, así como las formas de distribución adoptadas. Bajo esa premisa nos avocamos a reponer los elementos residuales y emergentes que desde allí dialogaron con el pasado y el presente de un periodo signado por el proceso recuperación y consolidación democrática. Por último rastreamos las vinculaciones entabladas entre estas publicaciones, a partir de la superposición de espacios, personas y acontecimientos aludidos dentro del corpus.
The political diaspora played a major part in the history of the international anarchist movement: in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries hundreds of militants, escaping from domestic ...persecution and following their internationalist ideals, took the path of exile and established colonies in European and non-European countries.
This book unveils the intriguing world of anarchist refugees in London from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. It is the first book to combine an investigation of anarchist political organisations and activities with a study of the everyday life of militants through identifying the hitherto largely anonymous Italian anarchist exiles who settled in London. Central to the book is an examination of the processes and associations through which anarchist exiles created an international revolutionary network which European and American governments and police forces esteemed to be an extremely dangerous threat. By investigating political, social and cultural aspects of the colony of Italian anarchist refugees in London, the nature of the transnational anarchist diaspora and its relevance in the history of the anarchist movement will be made evident. This monograph will also be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the fascinating history of social and political radicalism in immigrant communities in Britain.
Outside philosophy departments, most self-identified anarchists are social anarchists who reject both the legitimacy of the state and private property. By contrast, most anarchist philosophers are of ...the pro-market variety. As a result, a philosopher has yet to write an analytic defence of social anarchism. Jesse Spafford fills this gap by arguing that social anarchism is a coherent philosophical position that follows from a more basic, plausible principle that constrains which moral theories are acceptable. In the process of articulating and defending social anarchism Spafford stakes out a number of bold and original positions (e.g. that people own themselves and nothing else), while providing novel solutions to some of classic problems of political philosophy (e.g. luck egalitarianism's problem of stakes). His distinctive study offers an overarching, unified political theory while also advancing many of the more fine-grained debates that occupy political philosophers. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This article follows up on the book The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914 (2013), by exploring some primary material uncovered since this publication, and considering the ways in which research ...into the history of anarchism as a transnational movement has evolved. In the years since the publication of this book, a great deal of research has furthered or challenged its findings, especially in relation to print culture and the study of global anarchist networks. The mass digitisation of periodicals (both anarchist and mainstream) and archives in the last ten years offers new tools to find detailed information about the personal and political lives of these elusive anarchists in London – and further afield, thus rectifying the original study’s London-centric focus. These sources are also crucial in documenting the ways in which anarchists were perceived and portrayed in Britain, France and internationally, and constructed into a major public threat through media discourse.
