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Volume 4 Number 4 October 2011
Theory in Action - The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute
Book Review: Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for New Society by And...
Oppose and Propose is an attractively packaged, field-guide-sized “organizational biography” of Movement for a New Society (MNS), an organization devoted to nonviolent social change that ...
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Book Review: How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz
For his 1970 piece Injustice Case, African American artist David Hammons covered himself in margarine and pressed his body against a large sheet of paper. He sprinkled the resulting impre...
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Book Review: Constructions of Neoliberal Reason by Jamie Peck
I have always held an ambivalence about the neoliberal message, I must admit, and not because of its conservative project or fastidious belief in market-as-solution to every problem. Rath...
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Goldman’s Nietzschean Anarchism: A Greimasian Reading of Minorities Versus Ma...
In this paper I conduct a close reading of Emma Goldman’s essay “Minorities versus Majorities,” published in her book Anarchism and Other Essays, taking methodological cues from the work ...
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Fighting in the New Terrain: What’s Changed since the 20th Century
Tremendous technological and cultural shifts have occurred since we published Days of War, Nights of Love, our first book. On reflection, it seems that many of the incidental changes radi...
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Triangulating Freedom, Power, and Education: Learning Webs, Subjectivity, and...
Ivan Illich and Michel Foucault both began their careers with sweeping critiques of modern society; Illich focusing on the contradictory aspects of industrialization while Foucault analyz...
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The Emancipatory Struggle
Violence used for the purpose of protest is often heavily contested. Common uses of violence during a protest such as violent destruction of property, the clash with the police and the sc...
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Anarchism and Psychology
Many anarchists are suspicious of “psychologizing” and make little reference to psychology as a discipline beyond dismissing its individualist focus. Yet psychological assumptions about p...
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Defining an Anarchist-Sociology: A Long Anticipated Marriage
There is no established intellectual tradition of an “anarchist-sociology”—yet. A vibrant synthesis of anarchism and sociology has yet to be generated, whether that synthesis would be mer...
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Introduction
In November 2009 I had the distinct privilege and pleasure of helping co-organize the inaugural conference of the North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN) with Deric Shannon, Abbe...
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