Anarchist Essays
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Essay #110: Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, ‘Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate?’
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh reflects on an experience of creating a microcosm of an anarchist community in a Yucatecan Maya Village in Mex...
Essay #109: Jason Garner, ‘Updating Anarchism’
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jason Garner, looks at the debate between anarchists in countries on both side of the Atlantic about the need, or not, to revise anarch...
Essay #108: Steve Emery & Dai O’Brien, ‘L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist’
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Steve Emery and Dai O'Brien discuss the life and politics of a deaf anarchist communist, Leonard A. Motler. Steve and Dai explain his s...
Essay #107: Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, & Charles W., ‘Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid’
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, and Charles W. draw distinctions and connections between two important aspects of social movements: org...
Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Josie Holland breaks down key characteristics of queer anarchism and its connection to anarchist principles of prefiguration and revolu...
Essay #105: Javier Sethness Castro, ‘From Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism’
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this reading from Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism (2025), Javier Sethness Castro reflects on Leo Tolstoy an...
Essay #104: Theresa Warburton, ‘Other Worlds Here: Embracing Story as Place-Based Practice in Anarchist Social Movements’
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Theresa Warburton talks about the power of story for building a place-based method in anarchist organizing. Building on their own exper...
Essay #103: Iain McIntyre & Owen Clayton, ‘Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life: T-Bone Slim and the Industrial Workers of the World’
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This essay is based on the introductory chapter from a collection edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre entitled The Popular Wobbly: Selected Wr...
Essay #102: Graham McGeoch, ‘Anarchism, Orthodoxy, and Latin America’
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Graham McGeoch speaks about his research of Orthodox Christian influences on Anarchism in Latin America. A fuller version of the resear...
Essay #101: Jesse Spafford, ‘The Anarchist Case Against Private Property’
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jesse Spafford argues that plausible libertarian premises support the classical anarchist conclusion that no one has any moral proper...
Essay #100: Ruth Kinna, ‘Mutual Aid: What It Is and What It Is Not’
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This essay is adapted from Jim Donaghey's excellent collection, Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis . ...
Essay #99: Keith Jacobs, ‘The Writings of Colin Ward and the Legacy of Anarchism for Housing Studies’
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay Keith Jacobs considers the relevance of Colin Ward’s work for addressing contemporary housing challenges. It is claimed that Ward’s...
Essay #98: Rhiannon Firth, ‘Afterword to Fight for a New Normal: Anarchism and Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis’
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Rhiannon provides an Afterword summarizing some of the key themes in a recently published volume of collected essays edited by Jim ...
Essay #97: Matt Grimes, ‘I’m not someone who calls themselves an anarchist, I am an anarchist’: The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Latter Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk’
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Matt Grimes discusses the continuing significance of anarchism among a group of ageing anarcho-punks, who first engaged with anarchist ...
Essay #96: Dana Williams, ‘Concerning Anarchist Sociology: Working Within and Against Discipline’
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Dana Williams discusses the many complicated connections between sociology and anarchism. In particular, Williams explores what could b...
Essay #95: Alexandria Hollett, ‘No Gods, No Masters: Practicing Freedom Through Anarchist Civics’
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alexandria Hollett describes how liberal and conservative approaches to civic education in the so-called United States dangerously posi...
Essay #94: Libera Pisano, ‘Embracing Life: Gustav Landauer’s Anarchism as Rejection of Death’
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Libera Pisano explores Gustav Landauer’s unique approach to anarchism, grounded in a rejection of death as both a literal and symboli...
Essay #93: Alexander Sawatsky, ‘Anarchist Perspectives for Social Work Practice: Disrupting Oppressive Systems’
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alexander Sawatsky talks about his recent book, Anarchist perspectives for social work: Disrupting oppressive systems. Along with a s...
Essay #92: Leonard Williams, ‘A Response to the US Presidential Election’
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Leonard Williams reflects on the course of the 2024 presidential campaign in the United States. He then explores some implications of a...
Essay #91: Jim Donaghey, ‘DIY: A Radical Culture and Ethic Beyond Punk’
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jim Donaghey reads an adaption from the introduction to DIY or Die! Do-it-yourself, do-it-together and punk anarchism – the latest ...
Essay #90: Alex Christoyannopoulos, ‘Anarchist Qualms with Pacifism and Nonviolence: Accusations and Rejoinders’
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alex Christoyannopoulos maps out and discusses the main qualms aired by anarchists about pacifism and nonviolence (around effectiveness...
Essay #89: Jon Burke, ‘Qalang Smangus: Successful Aboriginal Christian Anarchism in Taiwan’
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jon Burke describes Qalang Smangus, an aboriginal village in Taiwan which has been collectively organized. Jon makes a case for identif...
Essay #88: Jess Dillard-Wright & Danisha Jenkins , ‘Dangerous and Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams for Alternate Nursing Futures’
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jess Dillard-Wright and Danisha Jenkins make the case for an anarchist approach to nursing. Part love note to a problematic profession ...
Essay #87: Cahal McLaughlin, ‘Participatory Filmmaking: Anarchist Principles and Practices’
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Cahal McLaughlin reflects on the influence of anarchist principles on his documentary filmmaking practices in societies affected by s...
Essay #86: Henry Brown, ‘Anarchists in Epaulettes’
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Henry Brown examines the controversial participation of anarchists in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9). Des...
Essay #85: Alex Doyle, ‘Anarchism and the Nation in Cuba’
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alex Doyle examines how anarchists in late 19th and early 20th century Cuba grappled with thorny issues of the nation and nationalism i...
Essay #84: Diogo Duarte, ‘Anarchy in the Streets’
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Diogo Duarte proposes a different look at the history of the State, urban planning and social housing in Portugal, by bringing into the...
Essay #83: Joshua Newmark & Sophie Turbutt, ‘Introduction: Iberian Anarchism in Twentieth-Century History’
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This essay introduces a short series of podcasts emanating from last year's 'Iberian Anarchism in Twentieth Century History' special issue. Joshua Ne...
Essay #82: David Christopher, ‘Early Cronenberg and the Anarchist Apocalypse’
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, David Christopher explores and unpacks the mutually anarchistic and apocalyptic propensities in the early films of David Cronenberg. Ch...
Essay #81: Andrew Whitehead, ‘The Anarchist Big Three and the Siege of Sidney Street’
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Andrew Whitehead examines the two most lethal incidents linked to anarchism in London's history: the murder of three police officers...
Essay #80: Jayne Malenfant & Hannah Brais, 'An Anarchist Approach to Housing Precarity'
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais unpack an anarchist approach to confronting housing precarity by bringing together existing anarchist ...
Essay #79: Sean Scalmer, ‘Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept’
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This essay examines the rise of 'direct action' as a key concept in anarchist and radical politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...
Essay #78: Sam C. Tenorio, ‘Black Cataclysm: Anarchism and Ruination’
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Sam C. Tenorio (he/they) reconsiders the Watts Rebellion of 1965 and its ruinous disruptions,...
Essay #77: Nolan Bennett, ‘Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism’
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Nolan Bennett traces through Alexander Berkman's 1912 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist an unresolved tension between two approaches to ...
Essay #76: Peterson Silva, ‘Mechanical Failures and Anarchist Freedom’
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Peterson Silva talks about metaphors for freedom among anarchists. He particularly discusses a metaphor concerning failure in complex s...
Essay #75: Chris Robé, ‘Anarchism, Video Activism and State Repression’
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Chris Robé explores the origins of video activism from the ecology, women’s liberation, and anarchist movements of the late 1960s an...
Essay #74: Pranay Somayajula, ‘Nationhood Beyond Nationalism: Towards an Anarchist Politics of Anti-Colonial Liberation’
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Pranay Somayajula critically examines the anarchist movement’s relationship to anticolonial politics. Drawing on a rich history of an...
Essay #73: Christopher Powell, ‘Shame Economies’
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Christopher Powell examines how sovereign statehood generates an economy of shame that fosters identification with the imagined soverei...
Essay #72: Elena Pagani, ‘Interpersonal Freedom as Pluralist Radical Horizontality’
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Elena Pagani presents theorising and practices of freedom as interpersonal and intersubjective. She does this through the conceptions...
Essay #71: Deric Shannon, ‘The Anarchist Critique of Capitalism’
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Deric Shannon outlines the anarchist analysis and critique of capitalism. He also gives some potential explanations for capitalism's re...
Essay #70: Sonia Hernández, ‘For a Just and Better World’
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Sonia Hernández describes the central role Mexican women played in the emergence of anarcho-syndicalist organizing during the early ...
Essay #69: Benjamin Franks, ‘Anarchism and Elections’
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Benjamin Franks identifies the core principles that lead anarchists to reject participation in democratic elections. It then explores t...
Essay #68: Carne Ross, ‘Anarchy is Love’
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Carne explores the spiritual dimension of anarchism, which he once assumed was more a ‘political’ philosophy about how people make ...
Essay #67: William Marling, ‘Anarchism and Rhetoric’
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, William Marling asks why there seems to be so much rhetoric in/about anarchism. He digs for an answer in his recent book on Ammon Hen...
Essay #66: Rhiannon Firth, ‘Disaster Anarchy’
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Rhiannon Firth reads from an article published in DOPE Magazine issue 22, which is part 2 of a 2-part summary of her latest book, D...
Essay #65: Gabriele Montalbano, ‘Anarchism and Labour Movements in Tunisia’
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Gabriele Montalbano considers the Italian-speaking anarchists of the end of the nineteenth century and their involvement and legacy in...
Essay #64: Javier Sethness Castro, ‘Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography’
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Javier Sethness Castro presents a new, queer reading of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life and art. By referencing homoeroticism in ...
Essay #63: Ryan Essex, ‘Anarchy, and Why It Matters for Health’
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Ryan Essex considers what anarchy could do for health and healthcare. Drawing on a number of historical and contemporary examples he ar...
Essay #62: Clara Vlessing, ‘Remembering Louise Michel: From Anarchist Assassin to Banksy Boat’
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Clara Vlessing looks at the cultural memory of Louise Michel (1830-1905). The essay compares Michel’s domestic remembrance with her i...
Essay #61: Robert Leach, ‘Subverting Good Order’
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Robert Leach discusses the gradual awakening of British radicals after the sleepy 1950s, especially some of the festivals that they mou...
Essay #60: Chi Shing LEE, ‘Anarchism and Nationalism: Ng Chung-yin’s Anarchist Envisioning of Hong Kong in the Early 1970s’
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Chi Shing LEE discusses the relationship between anarchism and nationalism. He introduces the anarchist thought of Ng Chung-yin, an imp...
Essay #59: DaN Mckee, ‘Anarchist: Subverting the System from Within’
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher, DaN McKee reflects on his personal experiences with the...
Essay #58: Pablo Angel Lugo, ‘Practices of Disobedience and Clandestine Citizenship: A Proposal Towards an Anarchist Theory of Art’
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Pablo Angel Lugo analyzes the involvement of anarchists in assisting illegal immigrants through the production of forged documents, fac...
Essay #57: Richard White, ‘A Purity of Rebellion: Anarchism, Animals, and More Than Human Worlds’
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Richard White encourages us to think about why anarchists should embrace the plight of farmed animals, insects and more than human worl...
Essay #56: Jesse Cohn, ‘White Anarchism’s Trouble with Modernity’
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jesse Cohn reconsiders the European anarchist tradition's place in modernity. How might our commitments to modernity's foundations co...
Essay #55: Spencer Beswick, ‘Anarchist Anti-Fascism’
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Spencer Beswick argues that anarchist infrastructure, values, and tactics played a key role in the development of militant antifascism ...
Essay #54: Chris Rossdale, ‘The Limits of Rebellion’
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Chris Rossdale reflects on the status of rebellion as a political concept. While Extinction Rebellion have been the most prominent advo...
Essay #53: Charlotte Lowell, ‘Is Love a Synonym for Anarchism?’
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Saidiya Hartman asks, “Is love a synonym for abolition?”. bell hooks writes that “true love requires an ongoing commitment to constructive strug...
Essay #52: Nora Ziegler, ‘Radical Hospitality’
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Nora Ziegler critically explores “radical hospitality” as a diversity of tactics that co-construct relationships of mutual aid acro...
Essay #51: Kiara Mohamed Amin & Priya Sharma, ‘Psychedelic Liberation’
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Kiara Mohamed Amin and Priya Sharma explore the liberatory potential of psychedelic trips, arguing that such practices possess the pote...
Essay #50: Dai O’Brien & Steve Emery, ‘Deaf People and Anarchism’
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Dai and Steve discuss the issues that deaf people and deaf communities face in capitalist society and the ways in which deaf people h...
Essay #49: Kim Kelly, ‘Guns aren’t just for right-wingers’
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Kim Kelly discusses her opinions and experiences with the past and present of leftist gun ownership and armed self-defense. Kim Kell...
Essay #48: Gloria Truly Estrelita, ‘A Short History of Anarchism in Indonesia’
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Gloria Truly Estrelita provides an overview of the history of anarchism in Indonesia. Co-authored with Jim Donaghey, Sarah Andrieu and ...
Essay #47: Jim Donaghey, ‘Smash All Systems!’
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jim Donaghey reads the introductory chapter to the newly published book Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, e...
Essay #46: Maia Ramnath, ‘The Not So Postcolonial and the Racial Capitalocene’
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Maia Ramnath discusses the concept of the racial capitalocene as a framework for linking anticolonialism and climate justice. As part...
Special episode: Black Autonomy Podcast, ‘Black Anarchism Across the Generations’
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This special issue of the Anarchist Essays podcast features a discussion between JoNina Ervin, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, and William C. Anderson. It ori...
Essay #45: Hannah Kass, ‘Food Anarchy and the State Monopoly on Hunger’
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Hannah Kass discusses how the state, capitalism, and property are interconnected systems, working together to produce peasant disposses...
Essay #44: Jennifer Cole, ‘Social Kropotkinism: The Best New Normal for Survival’
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jennifer Cole discusses how Peter Kropotkin's early writings on mutualism sit alongside Charles Darwin's writings on human evolution an...
Essay #43: Laura Galián, ‘Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean’
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Laura Galián delves into the history of anarchism in the south of the Mediterranean from a historical and historiographical perspectiv...
Essay #42: Sophie Scott-Brown, ‘Adventures in Anarchist Autobiography’
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Sophie Scott-Brown explores the life and times of anarchist autobiography. From Proudhon to Kropotkin, Goldman to Read, many anarchists...
Essay #41: Nathaniel Andrews, ‘Anarchist Children and Childhoods in the ‘Argentinian Barcelona’’
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Nathaniel Andrews explores both the role of children within anarchist activism, and anarchist understandings of childhood, focusing spe...
Essay #40: Sarah Gelbard, ‘Practicing Performances of Punk Anarchism in the Academy’
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Sarah Gelbard reflects on the messy relationship between punk, anarchy, and anarchism and ways it can be conceived of as identity, poli...
Essay #39: Frankie Hines, ’Anarchism, Literature, and the Problem of Representation’
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Frankie Hines argues that an anarchist literary theory requires engaging with the anarchist critique of representation and considering ...
Essay #38: Dorian Wallace, ‘Liberation Music Therapy’
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Dorian Wallace discusses the use of music as a source of emancipatory inspiration, revolutionary practice, and transformational communa...
Essay #37: Janet Biehl, ‘Their Blood Got Mixed’
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Janet Biehl discusses her new graphic memoir, Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS, an exploration of the R...
Essay #36: Elizabeth Vasileva, ‘The Curse of Morality’
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Elizabeth Vasileva discusses what kind of ethics are compatible with anarchist principles and makes the case for joyful, relational way...
Essay #35: Mark Bray, ‘The Anarchist Inquisition’
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Mark Bray discusses propaganda by the deed and the roles of human rights and 'terrorism' in the anarchist-led transnational campaigns a...
Essay #34: Alice Béja, ‘Emma Goldman, the Glorious Undesirable”
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alice Béja discusses how Emma Goldman and other anarchists "Americanized" anarchism in the United States at the turn of the twentieth ...
Essay #33: Chantelle Gray, ‘Algorithms, Automated Politics, and Anarchist Responses’
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Chantelle Gray talks about algorithmic governance - a new art of governing and government that treats individuals as data and the socia...
Essay #32: Michael Denner, ‘Anarty’
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Michael A. Denner explores anarchism’s aesthetic attitude towards reality: What does anarchism "look like" in art? Using examples dra...
Essay #31: Anthony Ince, ‘Uncharted Territory: Thinking about Space Beyond the State’
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Anthony Ince explores how a state-centric understanding of the world, how it fits together, and our place in it, limits both popular...
Essay #30: Eric Laursen, ‘Climate Change, Anarchy, and the End of the State’
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Eric Laursen discusses the roots of the climate change crisis in the forces driving the modern State. He lays out an analysis that loca...
Essay #29: Jeff Ferrell, ‘Dumpster Diving as Direct Action‘
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jeff Ferrell discusses his lifelong practice of ‘dumpster diving’ (trash picking, skip diving) as a form of anarchist direct action...
Essay #28: Hayyim Rothman, ‘Anarcho-Judaism and the Thought of Avraham Heyn‘
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Hayyim Rothman discusses religious Jewish anarchism. Beginning with a survey of its historical and some of its theological foundations...
Essay #27: Adam Barker, ‘Pitfalls of Anarchist Solidarity with Indigenous Communities‘
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Adam Barker discusses recurrent problems around non-Indigenous anarchists involved in land reclamation actions, along with Audra, a Ka...
Essay #26: Iwona Janicka, ‘Anarchism: Solidarity with Singularity and Mimesis‘
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Iwona Janicka talks about one of the possible ways to understand contemporary anarchism in practice, that is, through the concept of ‘...
Essay #25: Laney Lenox, ‘Methodology as Political Process‘
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Laney Lenox discusses working as an anarchist anthropologist and the practical implications of designing methodological tools to reflec...
Essay #24: Vittorio Frigerio, ‘Anarchism and Literature in France: A Complex Love Affair‘
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Vittorio Frigerio explores the often-fraught relationship between anarchism and the literary milieu in France, starting with a discussi...
Essay #23: Hamish Kallin, ‘Anarchism, Marxism, and the Right to the City‘
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Hamish Kallin muses on the links between Henri Lefebvre’s idea of a right to the city and the politics of anarchism. Hamish Kallin ...
Essay #22: Jim Yeoman, ‘Anarchy on Two Wheels‘
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jim Yeoman explores the intersection of anarchism and cycling, through the case study of Amsterdam's Provo movement of the mid-1960s. Y...
Essay #21: John-Erik Hansson, 'William Godwin as an Anarchist: Reinventing a Canonical Figure'
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, John-Erik Hansson examines how and why the 18th-century philosopher William Godwin has been portrayed – positively and negatively ...
Essay #20: Emma Brown Dewhurst, 'Recovering Redemption: Maximus the Confessor, Anarchism, and their Importance for Christian Ethics'
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Emma Brown Dewhurst discusses the relevance and importance of anarchist theory for reorientating Christian ethics, especially in re...
Essay #19: Ruth Kinna, 'Peter Kropotkin: Well-Being for All'
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Ruth Kinna discusses Peter Kropotkin's defence of communism. Exploring his idea of 'well-being for all' she argues that libertarian...
Essay #18: Jon Bigger, 'The Case for an Anarchist Exploration of Dr Who'
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Jon Bigger sets out the case for an anarchist ‘exploration’ of the BBC TV drama Doctor Who. Jon tutors in A-Level Government and P...
Essay #17: James Flexner, 'Food Fight: Subsistence and Stable Heterarchies in Vanuatu'
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, about the islands of southern Vanuatu, which presents an alternative to the traditional Western Civilisation narrative, James Flexner e...
Essay #16: Sky Croeser, 'Anarchist Teaching Online'
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Sky Croeser reflects on her experience attempting to make anarchist interventions into university teaching, including teaching onlin...
Essay #15: Lauren Golder, 'Voltarine de Cleyre and the Stakes of Anarchist Free Love'
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Lauren Golder looks at gendered interpretations of free love and sex radicalism through the life of American anarchist-feminist Voltai...
Essay #14: Alexander Aston, 'Flame of the Red Flag: Reflections on ecology, social cognition and the Paris Commune'
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Alexander Aston investigates the relationship between urban ecology, social cognition and the emergence of the Paris Commune of 1871. H...
Essay #13: Anders Sandström, 'Anarchist Accounting'
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Anders Sandström explores the history of accounting and argues for the need for accounting and bookkeeping also in a future anarchist ...
Essay #12: Deaglán Ó Donghaile, 'Oscar Wilde: Anarchism and Aestheticism'
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this essay, Deaglán Ó Donghaile discusses Oscar Wilde’s interest in and support for anarchism. Anarchism influenced Wilde’s literary writing...