Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism

Carl Levy is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of eleven single-authored and edited books and over 75 journal articles and chapters in edited books.Matthew S. Adams is Lecturer in Politics, History and Communication at Loughborough University, UK. His first book focused on the work of Peter Kropotkin and Herbert Read, and examined their efforts to articulate a distinctive anarchist politics. He has published on parallel themes in a number of intellectual history and history of political thought journals.

“This resource provides a thorough account of anarchist history and ideas. … This exceptional book makes an important contribution to the study of this topic. Essays could be assigned to students in various disciplines including history, political science, environmental studies, and women’s studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (E. S. Danowitz, Choice, Vol. 56 (5), January, 2019)​

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The State .- 3. Individual and Community.- 4. Freedom.- 5. Anti-Capitalism and Libertarian Political Economy.- 6. Tactics: Conceptions of Social Change, Revolution, and Anarchist Organisation.- 7. Anarchism and Cosmopolitanism.- 8. Anti-Imperialism.- 9. Anarchism and Religion10. Anarchism and Science.- 10. Anarchism and Science.- 11. Mutualism.- 12. Individualism.- 13. Anarchist Communism.- 14. Syndicalism.- 15. Anarcha-Feminism.- 16. Green Anarchism.- 17. Postanarchism.- 18. The French Revolution and 1848.- 19. Anarchism and the First International.- 20. The Spectre of the Commune and French Anarchism in the 1890s.- 21. Haymarket and the Rise of Syndicalism.- 22. The Era of Propaganda by the Deed.- 23. Anarchism and the First World War.- 24. Anarchism and Marxism in the Russian Revolution.- 25. The Spanish Civil War.- 26. Anarchism and 1968.- 27. From the Zapatistas to Seattle: The ‘New Anarchists’.- 28. Utopianism and Intentional Communities.- 29. Anarchist Education.- 30. The City, Urban Planning & Architecture.- 31. Anarchism and Ethics.- 32. Literature and Anarchism33. Anarchism and Art.- 34. Gender and Sexuality.- 35. Post-Industrial & Digital Society.- 36. Farming and Food.- 37. Anarchism and the Newest Social Movements.- 38. Non-Western Anarchisms and Postcolonialism.- 39. Anarchism and Indigeneity.- 40. Squares, Occupy Movements and the Arab Spring.