#anarchiststudies — Public Fediverse posts

The Anarchist Essays #podcast from @arglboro brings together people working in the diverse area of #AnarchistStudies (check out their extensive back catalog!) I've done an essay for their latest episode focused on the ways that #anarchism and #sociology overlap (and don't). It's a distillation of quite a few years of writing and thinking about the topic. Enjoy...

Essay #96: Dana Williams, ‘Concerning Anarchist Sociology: Working Within and Against Discipline’

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yz90qX8KzA0idYH1aRodc

I [virtually] presented my paper entitled "Inequality, Power, & #Hierarchy: #Anarchism as Conflict #Sociology?" today at the 8th Anarchist Studies Network conference (physically held in Belfast). I identified four different types of "conflict" in sociology, which have commonalities with, but also stark differences to, the analysis offered by anarchism. #AnarchistStudies #ASN @sociology

Just heard from a colleague that #anthropologist James C. Scott died a few days ago. He has had such a dramatic impact upon my thinking and scholarship. His books "Seeing Like a State" and "The Art of Not Being Governed" are modern-day #AnarchistStudies classics. Rest in Power, Professor Scott! #JamesCScott

The pioneering French #AnarchistStudies scholar and sociologist Ronald Creagh has died at 94. I got a chance to "meet" him via Skype at the 2015 #NAASN conference, and years later he was kind enough to answer my questions about #sociology and #anarchism. Rest in power, Ronald!

https://skap.noblogs.org/interviewees/ronald-creagh/

I recently finished Martha Ackelsberg's book "Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women" about the Mujeres Libres organization during the Spanish Revolution. It might be one of the most impressive explorations of what came to be anarcha-feminism (even though ML rejected the "feminism" label).

They organized against "ignorance, capitalism, and women's subordination", within the anarchist movement and among the working classes.

#Reading #AnarchistStudies

Attention anarcho-scholar comrades: I'm in urgent need of a high-res copy of Estudios: Revista Ecléctica Número 141 (1935), page 28 (whole page) at 6 inches/300 dpi. Does anyone have the wherewithal to find and photograph that page within the next week? Email me at [email protected]. #anarchism #anarchiststudies

One year ago, the journal Anarchist Studies published an article of mine entitled "Taming All Challengers", assessing why anarchist thought is mostly absent from N. American sociology (unlike feminism/marxism, which have found a home there). I interviewed academics about this question, considered various substitutes (like public sociology, humanist sociology, liberation sociology), & sketched out what anarchist-sociology could look like. #AnarchistStudies #Sociology

https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies/vol-30-issue-1/abstract-9523/

Nice to see my work cited in the new issue of Anarchist Studies journal, included in a group of writings one paper calls “the most relevant works published this century”which “represent ‘the new wave’ of anarchism in education”. 👌 I needed that this week - it’s been a tough one.

https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies/vol-31-issue-1/abstract-9685/

(Annoying it’s behind a paywall though!)

My own Anarchist Studies paper on education is free though - here: https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies/vol-29-issue-2/article-9445/

#AnarchistStudies #Anarchism #Education #Philosophy #Anarchist #Pedagogy #AnarchistEducation

A Brief History of Anarchism in Indonesia
https://anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-a-brief-history-of-anarchism-in-indonesia/

Also in podcast format (english):
https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-7i5fp-92b9a2

#anarchiststudies #anarchistpodcast #anarchisthistory

Thanks to WordPress using the ActivityPub protocol, my Sociologists' Knowledge of Anarchism Project is now connected to the Fediverse. SKAP contains ~30 interviews at present.

You can follow it here: @skap

(I can't guarantee they'll be much activity, though!)

#Sociology #Anarchism #AnarchistStudies

Today = 1st 🎂 of Λέων #Τολστόι: Η δουλεία της εποχής μας: το #κράτος, which includes Greek translation of my #AnarchistStudies titled "Leo #Tolstoy on the #State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State #Violence & #Deception". https://www.politeianet.gr/books/ch19789609470865-tolstoi-leon-panoptikon-i-douleia-tis-epochis-mas-331280

Been sharing this with a few folk individually recently but might as well share it further for anyone else interested. A paper I wrote for Anarchist Studies journal making an anarchist critique of attempts at ‘character education’ in English state schools. How can teachers in such contexts be role models of character when to succeed professionally we become riddled with vice? https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies/vol-29-issue-2/article-9445/
#education #anarchism #school #Aristotle #virtue #VirtueEthics #CharacterEducation #AnarchistStudies #Ofsted #character #teaching

I wonder if there is a community on here around #anarchiststudies yet.