---

Number of articles: 21

Articles

0 | 10

WORPOLE, Ken. "Colin Ward obituary"

Writer, social theorist and anarchist who believed in self-sufficiency, allotments and better town planning Colin Ward, who has died aged 85, lived with the title of Britain’s most famous anarchist for nearly half a ­century, bemused by this ambivalent soubriquet. In Anarchy in Action (1973), he set out his belief that an anarchist society was not an end goal. Following Alexander Herzen, the (...)

HONEYWELL, Carissa. "Utopianism and anarchism"

Journal of Political Ideologies (October 2007), 12(3), 239–254. "challenges the assumption that utopian traditions of social and political thought have ceased to have any relevance, or make any contribution to, contemporary thinking. Key utopian ideas, specifically the importance of a focus on transforming the circumstances and environments of the present, are transmitted to (...)

WALKER, Jesse.- Colin Ward, RIP

My favorite left-anarchist writer, Colin Ward, has passed away at age 85. Ward was the most practical radical I’ve ever read: Rather than sketching out utopian blueprints of a society without a state, he searched for empirical examples of everyday people organizing to solve their own problems. Once he started looking, he found that voluntary, non-authoritarian cooperation was everywhere. (...)

GRAHAM, Robert. Anarchism. A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Vol. II

Black Rose Books, 535 pages, 6x9, bibliography, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55164-310-6 $28.99 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55164-311-3 $48.99 Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin, Emma Goldman, George Woodcock, Marie Louise Berneri, Herbert Read, Alex Comfort, Martin Buber, Paul Goodman, Colin Ward, Paul Feyerabend, Pierre Clastres, Ivan Illich, Daniel Guerin and many more. (...)

WHITE, Stuart. "Making anarchism respectable? The social philosophy of Colin Ward"

Journal of Political Ideologies (Feb 2007) Vol. 12 Issue 1, p. 11-28. Abstract Anarchism suffers from a respectability deficit, a problem of achieving a threshold level of credibility in the eyes of non-anarchists. One anarchist thinker who has grappled persistently with this problem over 60 years of activism is the influential post-war British anarchist, Colin Ward. Responding directly to (...)

GORDON, Gareth.- Horizons of Change: Deconstruction and the Evanescence of Authority. - Chapter 4. Journey’s End/New Beginning.

Previous: Abstract and Contents List of abbreviations used Introduction Chapter 1. False Start Chapter 2. Departures Chapter 3. The Bridge: Where it Hinges] Chapter 4.- Journey’s End/New Beginnings But, for God’s sake, when we have demolished all a priori dogmas, do not let us think of indoctrinating the people in our turn. […] Let us never consider any question (...)

JOFF. "The Possibility of an Antihumanist EcoAnarchism" (6) Poststructuralist Anarchism

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Poststructuralist Anarchism Todd May formulates the relationship between anarchism and PS political philosophy in terms of PS thought forming a framework for thinking the concrete and particular without recourse to universal transcendent ideals. [1] May constructs a ‘triadic’ ethical schema which distinguishes formal, strategic and (...)

WARD, Colin. Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, October 2004. 141 pages. Paperback ISBN: 0-19-280477-4 Book Description What do anarchists want? Can anarchy ever function effectively as a political force? Is anarchism more ’organized’ and ’reasonable’ than is currently perceived? Colin Ward explains what anarchism means and who anarchists are in this illuminating and accessible introduction to the subject. (...)

WARD, Colin. A Bibliography: 2. Articles

“Allied Military Government”, War Commentary, London (Dec. 1943). 9 articles in Freedom (1945) on the postwar squatters movement “Origins of the Welfare State“, Freedom (June 1959) 12. “Last Look Round at the 50s“, Freedom (Dec. 1959) 26 As from March 1961 Ward edits a new monthly, Anarchy. “Workers’ Control: Looking for a Movement”, Anarchy. (Apr. 1961) 2:33-36. “Moving with (...)

BENELLO, C. George From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots and Workplace Democracy. Rev. by Colin Ward

From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots & Workplace Democracy by C. George Benello. Edited by Len Krimerman, Frank Lindenfeld, Carol Korty and Julian Benello. 251 pp. Boston: South End Press, 1992. Paul Goodman remarked that "a free society cannot be the substitution of a ’new order’ for the old order; it is the extension of spheres of free action until they make up the most of (...)

0 | 10

---

Bibliography

• Bibliografia dei libri di Colin Ward in italiano  
• GRAHAM, Robert. Anarchism. A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Vol. II  
• HONEYWELL, Carissa. "Utopianism and anarchism"  
• PESSIN, Alain. La culture libertaire  
• WARD, Colin. Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction  
• WARD, Colin. Dopo l’automobile  
• WARD, Colin. L’Anarchia. Un approccio essenziale  
• WARD, Colin. A Bibliography: 1. Books  
• WARD, Colin. A Bibliography: 2. Articles  
• WHITE, Stuart. "Making anarchism respectable? The social philosophy of Colin Ward"  

---

See also:

français

• TRAIMOND, Jean-Manuel. "Colin Ward (14 août 1924 - 11 février 2010)  
• PESSIN, Alain. La culture libertaire  

italiano

• WARD, Colin. Architettura del dissenso  
• WARD, Colin. Dopo l’automobile  
• Bibliografia dei libri di Colin Ward in italiano  
• WARD, Colin. L’Anarchia. Un approccio essenziale  

---

Search a bibliography with this name: WorldCat