Rethinking Anarchy: Anarchism and World Politics

Anarchist Studies Network
A research colloquium supported by the International Politics Research Group, University of Bristol, the ESRC and the PSA Anarchist Studies Network
AUDIO RECORDINGS OF ALL PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND THE FOLLOWING Q&A SESSIONS NOW AVAILABLE!!
Sessions 1 - 4
Sessions 5 & 6

7th-18th June, 2010

Papers:

All articles may also be downloaded in pdf format from the Anarchist Studies Network. Many thanks to Alex Prichard and the authors for permission to reproduce these articles here.
Adam Goodwin (Ottawa) ’Evolution and Anarchism in International Relations: The Challenge of Kropotkin’s Biological Ontology’
Alex Prichard (Bristol) ‘David Held is an Anarchist. Discuss.’
Shannon K. Brincat (Queensland) and Leah Aylward (Queensland) ‘Overcoming the Cosmopolitan/Communitarian Divide through Anarchism: La Via Campesina and the Principles of Anarchism
Roy Krøvel (Oslo) ‘Global Social Movements and International Relations. Anarchism and social movements in light of the Zapatista insurgency in Mexico.’
Daniel Murray (Stanford) ‘Democratic Insurrection, or, what does the alterglobalization movement have in common?’
April Carrière (Ottawa) ‘Social Movements and the Bolivian State: Anarchistic Trends in Practice and Theory’
Luke Ashworth (Limerick) ‘Anarchy against anarchism. The global anarchical society as a statist world’
Chris David La Roche and Jordan A. Guthrie (Toronto) ‘Anarchy is What Scholars Make of It: Anarchist Thought, IR Theory, and the ’Domestic Analogy’ Reversed’
Claire Harrison (Exeter) ‘Beyond the politics of demand: The politics of the act as exemplified by anarchist practices’
Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden (UEL) ’Anarchy and Anarchism: Towards a Theory of Complex International Systems’
Nathan Eisenstadt (Bristol) ‘Anarchism as Global Assemblage: The Paradoxes of ’Emacipatory Governmentalities’’
Carl Levy (Goldsmith’s) ‘Anarchism on the Potomac, when Cheney met Ravachol: the historiography of anarchism and securocrats since 9/11’
Paul Stott (UEA) ‘Anarchism, terrorism studies and Islamism’
Chris Rossdale (Warwick) ‘Rethinking Agency: Anarchist Interventions in the International’
Carissa Honeywell (Sheffield Hallam) ‘Mutiny and the Warfare State: The Prosecution of the War Commentary anarchists, 1945’
Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Kent) ‘“Him Only Shalt Thou Serve”: A Christian anarchist critique of the Westphalian international order’

Articles

PRICHARD, Alex.- Justice, Order and Anarchy

Routledge (Series : New International Relations), 2013. 226 pages. ISBN : 978-0-415-59688-6 Publisher’s presentation This book provides a (...)

GOODWIN, Adam. "Evolution and Anarchism in International Relations: The Challenge of Kropotkin’s Biological Ontology"

This project will utilize Peter Kropotkin’s theory of Mutual Aid to reconsider ontology in IR. Mutual Aid Theory holds that the evolution of (...)

PRICHARD, Alex. "David Held is an Anarchist. Discuss"

Abstract David Held’s international political theory is an echo of many of many of the core ideas at the heart of the anarchist tradition. These (...)

BRINCAT, Shannon K. and Leah AYLWARD "Overcoming the Cosmopolitan/Communitarian Divide through Anarchism: La Via Campesina and the Principles of Anarchism"

Abstract The cosmopolitan and communitarian dualism has long been a dividing line in the field of IR theory. On the one hand, cosmopolitan (...)

KRØVEL, Roy. ‘Global Social Movements and International Relations. Anarchism and social movements in light of the Zapatista insurgency in Mexico.’

Introduction Speaking to a group of tourists in San Cristobal de las Casas on the 1st of January 1994, explaining why they could not travel on (...)

STOTT, Paul.- "Anarchism, Terrorism Studies and Islamism"

The period following 9/11 saw those looking for historical precedent for Al Qaeda rediscover the Anarchist terrorists of the nineteenth and early (...)

CHRISTOYANNOPOULOS, Alexandre."‘Him Only Shalt Thou Serve’ A Christian Anarchist Critique of the Westphalian International Order "

Presented at the “Rethinking Anarchy: Anarchism and World Politics” colloquium held at Bristol University in June 2010. Author’s mail Abstract (...)

ROSSDALE, Chris. "Reclaiming Agency: Anarchist Interventions in the International"

To date, critical theories of international relations and security have not engaged substantively with the potentials and promises of anarchist (...)

CARRIÈRE, April. "Social Movements and the Bolivian State : Anarchistic Trends in Practice and Theory"

Abstract Latin America’s remarkable history of contentious politics has long been theorized through liberal, Marxist and post-Marxist paradigms of (...)

PRICHARD, Alex. Introduction: Anarchism and World Politics

Despite the re-emergence of anarchism as a political movement with a corresponding outpouring of academic and movement literature, despite IR (...)

PRICHARD, Alex. Conference Report

The above conference was convened by Alex Prichard and hosted by the International Politics Research Group in the Department of Politics, (...)