Contemporary Anarchist Studies

Amster, Randall; DeLeon, Abraham P.; Fernández, Luis A.; Nocella, Anthony J.; Shannon, Deric

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“…109 Anarchy's substantive form as political philosophy is rarely considered worth international law's attention. 110 Anarchism does not offer a single vision of a society, but traces of it can be found in libertarianism, communism and republicanism. 111 Anarchy, or the absence or rejection of centralised authority, offers far more than chaos.…”

Section: Anarchymentioning

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“…Following Proudhon, later iterations embraced both collectivism and individualism. 121 Collectivism is most often connected to radical left politics, while individualism is embraced by libertarianism. Both reject states' monopoly on force; however, collectivism regards community and collective decision-making as essential, whereas libertarianism prioritises individual decision-making.…”

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Syria & Locating Tyranny, Hegemony and Anarchy in Contemporary International Law

O’Donoghue

2020

Jus Cogens

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Substantive renderings of tyranny, hegemony or anarchy as governance forms within international law seldom appear. When invoked, tyranny and anarchy are presented as exceptional while hegemony, in accounts often borrowed from international relations scholarship, is defined as mundane and a natural explanation of international legal governance. This article puts forward substantive accounts of all three-tyranny, anarchy and hegemony-and utilises these to understand a single event, the airstrikes against Syria after the use of chemical weapons by the Assad Government in 2018. This event is first described in detail. The article examines the current use of the three theories in international legal theory and considers their substantive content. Next, these three theories are applied both singularly and in combination to the events in Syria to demonstrate what can be observed about international law through their deployment. This article shows the value of understanding the operation of international law through each of these prisms in their substantive form but also, and most markedly, what can be understood when all three frames are combined to explore a single event.

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Section: Anarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Anarchymentioning

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Syria & Locating Tyranny, Hegemony and Anarchy in Contemporary International Law

O’Donoghue

2020

Jus Cogens

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“…This is not to suggest such a disposition is monolithic; it is not. There are LGBT and even queer activists as well as anarchists who preclude an anti-capitalism from their analysis (Goldstein, 2002;Guerin, 1970), yet for the most part, both camps share an emphasis on the use of space for alternate means to accumulation; they approach building space with an emphasis on pleasure and direct democracy rather than profitmaking (Amster et al, 2009;Brown, 2007;Holtzman et al, 2004).…”

Section: Anarchist Queermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Anarchism and queer politics support a critique of the normative assumptions about the world (Goldman, 2001(Goldman, [1923; Kissack, 2008;Warner, 1993). Both emphasize practices, rather than fixed social or cultural identities (Amster et al, 2009;Hall, 2003;Sedgwick, 1990). Both support free will and choice, favoring the consent of those involved, not the approval of government or religious institutions (Highleyman, 1995(Highleyman, [1988).…”

Section: Anarchist Queermentioning

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Bridging the divide between queer theory sage and anarchism

Shepard

2010

Sexualities

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Much of the struggle for a queer public commons involves tactics and philosophical understandings embraced by anarchists and queers alike. A few of these overlapping positions include: an embrace of the insurrectionary possibilities of pleasure; a rejection of social controls and formal hierarchies in favor of mutual aid networks and DIY community building; the use of direct action; and a culture of resistance. The interconnections between these movements are often under-theorized and under-valued. Yet, rather than build on these linkages, much of today’s queer theory finds itself facing a divide separating theory from practice. This article explores this divide in relation to historically-informed examples of current queer activist practices in which queers and anarchists share common cause. The examples highlight the links between anarchism and efforts aimed at reproductive health and sexual self-determination, public assembly, and battles against social prohibitions and vice squads. The article concludes with a call for a mutual engagement between queer activism and anarchism.

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Anarchism and Urban Planning

Vanolo

2019

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Anarchy is a philosophy whose core value is the opposition to ideas of authority, hierarchy, domination, exploitation, and ruling. Anarchy includes a vast and variegated universe of different theories, practices, political visions, and projects, and it is possible to name a number of different subcategories including, for example, individual anarchism, collectivist anarchism, anarchist-communism, pacifist anarchism, insurrectionary anarchism, or post-anarchism. These different strands of anarchism share the desire for eliminating authoritarian, coercive, and repressive structures and relations, including capitalism and the state. A pivotal argument of social anarchists is that co-operation, mutual aid, and sociospatial networks offer alternatives to utilitarianism and competition for the organization of collective life and for privileging human relations in regulating social phenomena.Anarchic arguments and views have had major implications for geography, urbanism, and spatial thinking in general, and it is not a coincidence that two major authors in the history of anarchism, Élisée Reclus (1830Reclus ( -1905 and Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) were geographers. They both assumed that land use, human settlements, and built environments may have a role in transforming social, economic, and ecological relationships, which is a position that shares many perspectives with urban planning (Breitbart, 2009;Crouch, 2017). Among relevant anarchic ideas about space and politics, decentralization and self-government must be mentioned, originally advocated by intellectuals such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Particularly, Kropotkin elaborated decentralism as a spatial pattern based on federations of autonomous associations, villages, and urban neighborhoods, allowing communal development and the voluntary, reciprocal exchange of goods, ideas, art, knowledge, experiences, and ways of life. In his vision, mutual aid and common benefit may be driving forces in communities, an idea quite at odds with the Darwinist and colonialist perspectives that dominated social sciences and geography at that time. Anarchist ideas have been also innovative in conceptualizing relations between the social and the environmental spheres. In a pioneering way, Reclus developed a kind of systemic understanding of natural and social phenomena, by intending land

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Contemporary Anarchist Studies

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Syria & Locating Tyranny, Hegemony and Anarchy in Contemporary International Law

Syria & Locating Tyranny, Hegemony and Anarchy in Contemporary International Law

Bridging the divide between queer theory sage and anarchism

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