Constitutionalising Anarchy

Ruth Kinna is a political theorist and historian of ideas at Loughborough University. Her books include The Government of No One (2019) and Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition (2016). She is co-founder of the Political Studies Association's Anarchist Studies Network and co-editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. Alex Prichard is an IR theorist at the University of Exeter. His books include Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (2022), and Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2013). He is co-founder of the PSA Anarchist Studies Network and co-editor of the 'Contemporary Anarchist Studies' monograph series.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: constitutionalising anarchy; 1. Constitutionalising and the spectre of anarchy; 2. The anarchist critique of constitutionalism; 3. Anarchy, culture and association; 4. War, pacification and decentralised federalism; 5. Decentralised federalism and class war constitutionalism in the IWW; 6. Democracy vs. anarchy in Occupy Oakland; 7. Cultures of anarchy in radical routes; Conclusion: anarchist constitutionalising as everyday revolutions; Bibliography; Index.

''Constitutionalising Anarchy' is easily one of the most thought-provoking and groundbreaking works on anarchist theory published this century. Kinna and Prichard masterfully bridge the gap between powerful examples of anarchy in action and intellectual histories of societal norms-making to challenge dominant statist paradigms. This is an urgent appeal for activists to further conceptualize their organizational structures and political theorists to take seriously the anti-state tradition of collective decision-making from below.' Mark Bray, Assistant Teaching Professor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Author of 'The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France'