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20 Years of Anarchist Studies

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From Anarchist Studies Network Jesse Cohn, Kathy Ferguson, Ruth Kinna, Saul Newman & Alex Prichard, Call for Papers: Anarchist Futures

This roundtable explores the history, purpose and some of the insights and innovations in Anarchist Studies over the past fifteen years. It was recorded for submission to the Political Studies Association’s 2022 online conference, and features five longstanding members of the Anarchist Studies Network and the North American Anarchist Studies Network: Jesse Cohn, Kathy Ferguson, Ruth Kinna and Saul Newman. The discussion is chaired by Alex Prichard, co-convenor of the ASN from 2006. The roundtable will be published as a Critical Exchange in Contemporary Political Theory.

APN School Revolt 2022

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From Anarchist Pedagogies Network

We are inviting you to send us proposals for participation in the first ever APN School Revolt!

APN School Revolt 2022 is a two-week festival of talks, workshops, and special events that deal with Anarchism, Education, and Intersectionality. It will take place online between the end of February 2022 and the beginning of March 2022. Final dates will be shared after proposals have been collected.

An anarchist & trade-unionist critique of education

An anarchist & trade-unionist critique of education

From Freedom News UK by Mohamed Khougali

This essay is an attempt to further elucidate and elaborate on a previous article written about the British Eurocentric education curriculum. In the instigating article, I write about the usurpation of history through academic revival and conserving a certain historic and narrative arc. I go on to talk about the purposeful deification of white accomplishment and what that means to the students. I suggest four chief concerns that come out of this practice of historic ‘cleansing’? “(1) whitewashing, (2) loss of history, and intellectual ignorance, (3) frozen time, consequently moulding of identity, and (4) intellectual privilege”.

TOTW: Anarchy and Trauma

TOTW - Anarchy and Trauma

I know that, before I had ever encountered critical discourse or radical politics, before I'd attended my first protest or meeting, before I had debated anyone on political theories either face to face or on the Internet, my first experiences of disenfranchisement towards the state, capitalism, civilisation, etc., and desires to rebel came from direct personal experiences that were mostly, in some way or another, traumatic. The trauma of childhood poverty, of bullying teachers in school, of family members dependent on drugs and alcohol, these all left me with a feeling of "I hate this shit", long before I had read anything on economics or anarchism.

TOTW: Anarchists in the Academy

The further away I get from college, the stranger the academy appears to me. My education as an anarchist came after I graduated, and as a result I was spared some of the seriousness anarchist academics seem to ascribe to pluralizing nouns like anarchy, praxis, or whiteness (lest any readers assume there was just one kind).

Education, Infrastructure, Insurrection: Mark Bray on Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School

From It's Going Down

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we welcome back to the program Mark Bray, an anarchist, a historian, and author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook and Translating Anarchy. In his new new book, Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader, which is also edited by Robert H. Haworth, Bray brings forth a new collection of writings, some translated for the first time in English, about the infamous Spanish anarchist Francisco Ferrer and the movement that he helped shape, The Modern School.

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