Editorial: PM Press

ISBN: 9781629632384

192 págs.

Año: 2017

Format: Rústica

Idioma: Anglès

Anarchy In Action

The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism.

Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions and the solutions anarchists offer so remote, that all too often people find it hard to take anarchism seriously. This classic text is an attempt to bridge the gap between the present reality and anarchist aspirations, “between what is and what, according to the anarchists, might be.”

Through a wide-ranging analysis—drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few—Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organize themselves when left alone to do so.

The result is both an accessible introduction for those new to anarchism and pause for thought for those who are too quick to dismiss it.

For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New Society, Freedom, and Town and Country Planning.

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Colin Ward. Arquitecto e historiador, es una de las figuras clave del anarquismo británico del siglo XX. Tras la II Guerra Mundial, en la que participó y se politizó, trabajó como editor en el periódico Freedom, creado por Kropotkin. Así mismo, fundó la revista Anarchy en 1961. Su formación en arquitectura fue determinante a la hora de abordar los problemas espaciales con soluciones empíricas. Para Ward, el anarquismo se expresa en el entorno construido, ahí donde las personas diseñan sus propios espacios. En su mirada integradora y revolucionaria la libertad y la democracia son indisociables de la autonomía. Una de sus obras más influyentes es El niño en la ciudad, cuya primera edición es de 1978 y Katakrak publica en 2025, donde explora la relación entre entornos urbanos y rurales y el desarrollo infantil. Es autor de Anarquía en acción (Enclave de Libros, 2013), Contra el automóvil. Sobre la libertad de circular (Virus, 1996) y Arquitectura del disenso. Formas y prácticas alternativas del espacio urbano (Gallo Nero, 2023). Sus ideas siguen siendo una fuente de inspiración para quienes conciben el cambio social desde un enfoque comunitario y participativo.
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Anarchy In Action

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The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism.

Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions and the solutions anarchists offer so remote, that all too often people find it hard to take anarchism seriously. This classic text is an attempt to bridge the gap between the present reality and anarchist aspirations, “between what is and what, according to the anarchists, might be.”

Through a wide-ranging analysis—drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few—Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organize themselves when left alone to do so.

The result is both an accessible introduction for those new to anarchism and pause for thought for those who are too quick to dismiss it.

For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New Society, Freedom, and Town and Country Planning.

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Editorial: PM Press

ISBN: 9781629632384

192 págs.

Año: 2017

Format: Rústica

Idioma: Anglès

Colin Ward. Arquitecto e historiador, es una de las figuras clave del anarquismo británico del siglo XX. Tras la II Guerra Mundial, en la que participó y se politizó, trabajó como editor en el periódico Freedom, creado por Kropotkin. Así mismo, fundó la revista Anarchy en 1961. Su formación en arquitectura fue determinante a la hora de abordar los problemas espaciales con soluciones empíricas. Para Ward, el anarquismo se expresa en el entorno construido, ahí donde las personas diseñan sus propios espacios. En su mirada integradora y revolucionaria la libertad y la democracia son indisociables de la autonomía. Una de sus obras más influyentes es El niño en la ciudad, cuya primera edición es de 1978 y Katakrak publica en 2025, donde explora la relación entre entornos urbanos y rurales y el desarrollo infantil. Es autor de Anarquía en acción (Enclave de Libros, 2013), Contra el automóvil. Sobre la libertad de circular (Virus, 1996) y Arquitectura del disenso. Formas y prácticas alternativas del espacio urbano (Gallo Nero, 2023). Sus ideas siguen siendo una fuente de inspiración para quienes conciben el cambio social desde un enfoque comunitario y participativo.
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