Inventing Ordinary Anarchy in Cold War Britain
| Autor: | Sophie Scott-Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Modern Intellectual History. :1-22 |
| ISSN: | 1479-2451 1479-2443 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1479244323000057 |
| Popis: | When you think of 1960s anarchism, community playgrounds and financial planning for tenants’ associations may not spring to mind, yet these, along with similar topics, were Anarchy's (1961–1970) staple fare. The A5 monthly, edited by British journalist Colin Ward (1924–2010), maintained a steady output of ‘anarchist applications’ in the spheres of education, housing, and community development. Although published during the 1960s, the origins and ethos of the journal lay in the previous decade. Responding to this heightened Cold War “moment,” Ward developed an idiosyncratic radical pragmatism prioritizing the practice of popular democracy over the theory of it. In reconstructing Anarchy's intellectual formation, this article contributes to revisionist scholarship acknowledging a more experimental radical culture in 1950s Britain than is usually granted, one that prefigured aspects of the later counterculture but also differed from it in important respects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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