Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams 
The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism 

This handbook unites leading scholars from around the world in exploring anarchism as a political ideology, from an examination of its core principles, an analysis of its history, and an assessment of its contribution to the struggles that face humanity today. Grounded in a conceptual and historical approach, each entry charts what is distinctive about the anarchist response to particular intellectual, political, cultural and social phenomena, and considers how these values have changed over time. At its heart is a sustained process of conceptual definition and an extended examination of the core claims of this frequently misunderstood political tradition. It is the definitive scholarly reference work on anarchism as a political ideology, and should be a crucial text for scholars, students, and activists alike.

Table of Content

1. Introduction.- 2. The State .- 3. Individual and Community.- 4. Freedom.- 5. Anti-Capitalism and Libertarian Political Economy.- 6. Tactics: Conceptions of Social Change, Revolution, and Anarchist Organisation.- 7. Anarchism and Cosmopolitanism.- 8. Anti-Imperialism.- 9. Anarchism and Religion10. Anarchism and Science.- 10. Anarchism and Science.- 11. Mutualism.- 12. Individualism.- 13. Anarchist Communism.- 14. Syndicalism.- 15. Anarcha-Feminism.- 16. Green Anarchism.- 17. Postanarchism.- 18. The French Revolution and 1848.- 19. Anarchism and the First International.- 20. The Spectre of the Commune and French Anarchism in the 1890s.- 21. Haymarket and the Rise of Syndicalism.- 22. The Era of Propaganda by the Deed.- 23. Anarchism and the First World War.- 24. Anarchism and Marxism in the Russian Revolution.- 25. The Spanish Civil War.- 26. Anarchism and 1968.- 27. From the Zapatistas to Seattle: The ‘New Anarchists’.- 28. Utopianism and Intentional Communities.- 29. Anarchist Education.- 30. The City, Urban Planning & Architecture.- 31. Anarchism and Ethics.- 32. Literature and Anarchism33. Anarchism and Art.- 34. Gender and Sexuality.- 35. Post-Industrial & Digital Society.- 36. Farming and Food.- 37. Anarchism and the Newest Social Movements.- 38. Non-Western Anarchisms and Postcolonialism.- 39. Anarchism and Indigeneity.- 40. Squares, Occupy Movements and the Arab Spring.

About the author

Carl Levy is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author of eleven single-authored and edited books and over 75 journal articles and chapters in edited books.



Matthew S. Adams is Lecturer in Politics, History and Communication at Loughborough University, UK. His first book focused on the work of Peter Kropotkin and Herbert Read, and examined their efforts to articulate a distinctive anarchist politics. He has published on parallel themes in a number of intellectual history and history of political thought journals.