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8th ASN Conference: Anarchism in/with/as/beyond CONFLICT

From Anarchist Studies Network

Call for Papers

Is conflict a problem to solve, an awkward fact of life, or even a virtue to uphold? Are particular conflicts ‘good’ or ‘bad’? Is anarchism in conflict with itself? Does peace simply equate to an absence of conflict, or is it an ‘equilibrium’ of conflicting social forces? War, huh? What is it good for? ‘Absolutely nothin’!’ (Edwin Starr, 1970).

Sacco and Vanzetti 1927-2027 International Conference: Call for Papers

From fabula

The conference will be held at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (France) in 2027 (date to be fixed). A deadline will be set in 2026 for the receipt of intervention proposals. Interested people can already come forward to announce their wish to participate in the conference by sending the broad outlines of their proposed intervention.

Deadline: May 15, 2026

Building Black Anarchist Futures: A Review Essay

From Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies
Volume 43, Issue 2, Fall 2023
By Huey Hewitt

Full title: Building Black Anarchist Futures: A Review Essay on Lorenzo Ervin’s Anarchism and the Black Revolution and William Anderson’s The Nation on No Map

Decolonization, Islam, Palestine & Turtle Island

From Muhammad Abdou's facebook
October 11, 2023

...Decolonization is an inherently violent, yes, but it's also a spiritual act in restoring neocolonialism's disfiguring impact on the native's racialized, sexualized, gendered, material, historical, symbolic, political, and spiritual relationship to our mother earth, non-humxn life and land (that are also spiritual subjects not objects). While i understand the many impulses in secularizing Palestine and claiming that it isn't a religious struggle (myself having been involved in diasporic Palestinian organizing for over 22 years in Turtle Island) i never agreed with this approach.

New Issue of Anarchist Studies journal out now

Anarchist Studies Volume 31 (2023) Issue 1
https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies/vol-31-issue-1/

Contents

Editorial: What Happened to the Anarchist Century?, pages 6‑11
Matthew Wilson

Radical Politics, Left Convergence and the War of Position, pages 11‑24
Owen Worth

Against Prefiguration: An Anarchist Iconoclasm, pages 25‑45
Frankie Hines

Review: "Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean"

From Anarchist Studies Volume 31 (2023) Issue 1

Laura Galián, Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2020; 218pp; ISBN 9783030454487

An Anthology of Puerto Rican Anarchist Texts from the Start of the 20th Century

Cover imgage of: "Free Pages: A Brief Anthology of Anarchist Thought in Puerto Rico (1900-1919)"

From 80grados.net English translation by Anarchist News

[Free Pages: A Brief Anthology of Anarchist Thought in Puerto Rico (1900-1919)], edited by Dr. Jorell Meléndez Badillo and published by [Emergent Education Editions] in 2021, compiles a sample of texts from anticlerical and secular Puerto Rican anarchism from the first two decades of the 20th Century, one of the least studied periods of that century.

‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’

Ecological anarchist and anti-extractivist struggle by Riona O’Regan

From Taylor & Francis Online by Alexander Dunlap

Full title: ‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization

Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented practice carried out across the world by groups or individuals rejecting domination and subjugation by state, capital, and other forms of power.

Chiara Bottici: Anarchafeminism

via autonomies

[T]here is hardly any publication in the field today that does not engage with the concept of intersectionality — whether to promote it, to criticize it, or simply to position oneself with regards to it. Yet, strikingly enough, in all the literature engaging with intersectionality, there is barely any mention of the feminist tradition of the past that has been claiming exactly the same point for a very long time: anarchist feminism, or as I prefer to call it “anarchAfeminism.” The latter term has been introduced by social movements trying to feminize the concept, and thereby give visibility to a specifically feminist strand within the anarchist theory and practice. This anarchafeminist tradition, which has largely been neglected both in the academia and in public debate more in general, has a particular vital contribution to offer today.

A few words about the intervention to Professor A. Drakos

A few words about the intervention to Professor A. Drakos

The age we live in finds us trapped in a spectacular, imposing but at the same time fragile normality, the normality of the “aristocrats” and their slaves. Sitting behind their seats, with wide smiles and over-inflated bank accounts, the ‘excellent’ are the dream of every petty bourgeois. However much they may communicate this image, the pervasive rot and stench that pervades them is everywhere, infesting the space where they stand and breathe.

Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches

Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches

From Empty Hands History

“Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century (Panel Recording)

I recently organized an online panel at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair on November 14th (2021), which was recorded and uploaded to Youtube. My own talk, which begins around 41:20, is titled “‘We’re Pro-Choice and We Riot’: Anarcha-Feminism in Love and Rage (1989-98).” It is based on research and interviews that I have been conducting for my dissertation on North American anarchism in the late 20th century.

Call for Submissions - Burning the Ballot: Feminism Meets Anarchy

from anon.

Call for Papers for Burning the Ballot: Feminism Meets Anarchy
A Special Issue of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power
https://coilsoftheserpent.org/

Guest Editors: Tammy Kovich & Adam Lewis (Canada)

Anarchism’s engagement with the question of gender is at once ambiguous and contradictory. Historically, the anarchist response to the “woman/sex question” was mixed. During the period of ‘classical anarchism’ (1840-1939), women took on active roles in anarchist movements – they were active in anarchist organizations, publications, and projects across the globe. They took part in uprisings, rebellions, and revolutions, as well as in the work of day-to-day anarchist organizing, propaganda, and more. While many (though not all) rejected the label of feminist, they nonetheless spoke out against sexual subordination and called for the emancipation of women with the overthrow of all forms of social, political, and economic hierarchy. At the same time, many others were at best ambivalent to the idea of sexual equality and at worst outright hostile to it. Frequently credited as the founding father of anarchism, Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) was an outright misogynist who spoke out against the idea that women could (or should) ever be anything other than wives and mothers, and claimed that the only option available to women outside of the family was prostitution

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