Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility : The Colin Ward Reader

Colin Ward

ISBN 10: 1849350205 / ISBN 13: 9781849350204

Published by AK Press Nov 2011, 2011

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Neuware - Six decades of revolutionary pragmatism from Britain's most famous living anarchist.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility : The Colin Ward Reader
• Publisher: AK Press Nov 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849350205
• ISBN 13: 9781849350204
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 232W x 151H x 25D millimeters 232 millimeters width by 151 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 496 grams

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Synopsis

"Britain's leading anarchist philosopher." —Anne Power, London School of Economics

Drawing inspiration from the everyday creativity of ordinary people, Colin Ward long championed a unique social and environmental politics that is premised on the possibilities of democratic self-organization and self-management from below. This collection provides a wide-ranging overview of Ward's earliest journalism, with seminal essays, extracts from his most important books, and examples of his most recent work.

Damian F. White is assistant professor of sociology at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Chris Wilbert is a lecturer in geography and tourism at Anglia Ruskin University.

About the Author

Colin Ward: Born in 1924, Colin Ward is Britain's foremost living anarchist writer. Editor of Freedom newspaper and then Anarchy magazine from 1947 to 1970, he is the author or co-author of over thirty books, including Anarchy in Action, Cotters and Squatters, The Allotment, and Arcadia for All. He is a former Visiting Centennial Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics.

Damian F. White: Damian F.White is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Science at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (Pluto Press, 2008) and the co-editor (with Chris Wilbert) of Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces and Places in the Twenty First Century (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009).

Chris Wilbert: Chris Wilbert is a Lecturer in Geography and Tourism at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge & Chelmsford, England. He writes on social and cultural geographies of tourism, human-animal relations, and environmentalism.