Anarchism is a set of ideas and practices focused upon the elimination of hierarchies (political, economic, social), and prioritizes creating horizontal, self-managing, cooperative, egalitarian, and empowered communities. Anarchist movements have been active since the mid-Nineteenth century and have pursued insurrectionary, mass-organizing, and…[Read more]

Genealogy necessitates historical records, the majority of which derive from government sources, despite families’ “private” lives. State records weren’t intended to service future family historians, but were a means to state-formation and power. Consequently, records used by family historians reflect statist concerns, not state subject…[Read more]

This article tests the general explanatory power of political opportunity theory for cross-national variations in protest throughout the world, and considers how opportunities influence individual-level characteristics crucial for coalition-formation and campaigns. This study constructs a multilevel model of protest potential, using survey data…[Read more]

Anarchism’s formal influence upon the discipline of sociology has been negligible. To understand why, this paper begins by considering the impact of two other movements – Marxism and feminism – within sociology. Notably, the nature of academia and scholarly disciplines, anarchism’s shortcomings, and the deliberate exclusion of anarchist voices…[Read more]

Since its origins in the Industrial Revolution, anarchism has observed and criticized a wide swath of inequalities. Likewise, some sociologists have independently developed theoretical understandings of inequality that reflect anarchist interests and sentiments. This paper develops an anarchist-sociological grand theory of domination, offering the…[Read more]

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 ana…[Read more]

While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements-namely, autonomous indigenous movements in the periphery and anarchist worker movements in the core and semi-periphery-it relegates them to secondary importance to statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide…[Read more]

The purpose of this research was to explore support for Native American sports nicknames. A survey of students at the University of North Dakota, a school with substantial Native student enrollment, was conducted to determine support or opposition to the school’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname and logo. A majority of Native American and a minor…[Read more]

As nation states equivocate over meaningful climate change agreements, hundreds of cities worldwide and in the US have joined to promote climate change policies and actions. Many US cities have taken a leadership role in promoting ameliorative public policy and best practices, overcoming significant disincentives for doing so, particularly low…[Read more]