Description: Constructive Anarchy draws on over a decade of direct study within a variety of anarchist projects to provide the most wide-ranging and detailed analysis of current anarchist endeavours to date. The book offers compelling discussions of anarchism and union organizing, anti-poverty work and immigrant and refugee defence, and is a ground-breaking achievement from one of the rising scholars of contemporary anarchism.
Review Quotes: 'Few sociologists have been as astute observers of the modern anarchist movement as Jeff Shantz. His "Constructive Anarchy" is, hands down, the best study available of anarchism's active vision for, and practical experimentation with, the transformation of society.' Dana M. Williams, Valdosta State University, USA 'Constructive Anarchy powerfully confirms the Marxian adage that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created. Shantz portrays anarchism here less as a renunciation of what exists than a celebration of positive assemblages of new praxes. It should give hope to us all.' Roger Keil, York University, Canada