Book 55

Anarchy and Society

by Jeffrey Shantz and Dana M. Williams

Published 12 November 2013
Anarchy and Society explores the many ways in which the discipline of Sociology and the philosophy of anarchism are compatible. The book constructs possible parameters for a future 'anarchist sociology', by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers (including Kropotkin, Proudhon, Landauer, Goldman, and Ward), as well as an anarchist interrogation of key sociological concepts (including social norms, inequality, and social movements). Sociology and anarchism share many common interests-although often interpreting each in divergent ways-including community, solidarity, feminism, crime and restorative justice, and social domination. The synthesis proposed by Anarchy and Society is reflexive, critical, and strongly anchored in both traditions.

Book 153

Organizing Anarchy

by Jeffrey Shantz

Published 20 January 2020

Organizing Anarchy details the remarkable growth and diversity of anarchist organizational practice in a range of spheres of activity, from community centers to online activism to labor and workplace militancy, over the first decades of the twenty-first century. These projects involve innovative approaches by which anarchists resist current forms of exploitation and oppression while building anarchist relations for the future post-capitalist world in the present. Through direct action and solidarity they make anarchism manifest today, rather than encountering it as a distant goal.

Organizing Anarchy critically examines the possibilities and problems facing these anarchists who seek to pose effective challenges to capitalist forms of exploitation and domination. The work also engages theoretical developments around their emerging political practices, particularly the social movement theories that tend to downplay, overlook, or misunderstand anarchist movements and forms of organizing.


Anarchy and Society constructs possible parameters for a future 'anarchist sociology', by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers as well as an anarchist interrogation of key sociological concepts (including social norms, inequality and social movements). Sociology and anarchism share many common interests including community, solidarity, feminism, crime and restorative justice and social domination. The synthesis proposed by Anarchy and Society is reflexive, critical and strongly anchored in both traditions.