Research
Anarchist Research Group
The ARG is based in the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences. Its aims are:
- to provide an informal space for the discussion, exploration and analysis of anarchist ideas and practices;
- to support anarchism research across scholarly disciplines in the University;
- to help raise the profile of anarchist studies through scholarship and public engagement;
- to co-ordinate with external networks to promote international collaborative work and anarchism research at Loughborough;
- to organise seminars for postgraduate researchers working on aspects of anarchist history and politics.
The ARG was established in 2008. It is contributes to the Communication, Culture and Citizenship (CCC) Challenge at Loughborough University and is networked nationally with the Anarchist Studies Network (a specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association) and internationally with the Anarchist Studies Initiative at SUNY, Cortland. We are also organising the Critical Citizenship, Activism and Art seminar series with the Politicised Practice Research Group, sponsored by the CCC Challenge.
Our seminars are free and open to all and we make papers and recordings available online.
If you are interested in receiving more information about our activities, please contact one of the co-ordinators (D.G.Berry@lboro.ac.uk; A.Christoyannopoulos@lboro.ac.uk; U.Gordon@lboro.ac.uk or R.E.Kinna@lboro.ac.uk) and see the information below. All are welcome to attend ARG seminars.
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Events / Seminars in 2016-17 |
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Anarchist Studies Network Fourth International Conference |
14-16 September 2016 |
Loughborough University |
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Independent |
What, Me Worry? The Rise Of The Surveillance State & What We Can Do About It |
Tuesday 27 October, 5pm |
J202 (in the Edward Herbert Building) |
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Grietje Baars |
City University London |
Explaining the 'obvious' interconnection of all struggles: Conversations on veganism, gender and queer liberation with the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall |
Wednesday 27 January, 5pm |
K105 (in Manzoni) |
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Nick Kiersey |
Ohio University |
Occupy Dame Street and Irish Left Strategy: Lessons and Possible Futures |
Wednesday 2 March, 5pm |
K105 (in Manzoni) |
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Colin Bruce |
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Towards Green Anarchism: Total Liberation and the Abolition of Hierarchy |
Wednesday 27 April 5pm |
K105 (in Manzoni) |
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Robert Lamb |
University of Exeter |
In Defence of the Citizen-Philosopher: Political Theory and the Idea of Expertise |
Wednesday 18 May 5pm |
K105 (in Manzoni) |
For past seminars and files available for download, please see below.
Co-ordinators:
Dave Berry; Alex Christoyannopoulos; Uri Gordon; Ruth Kinna
Members & Associates:
Professor Peter Ackers, Professor of Employment Relations, Faculty of Business and Law, De Montford University
Dr Maurizio Atzeni, Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University
Will Boisseau, Postgraduate Researcher, Loughborough University
Dr John Cromby, Reader in Psychology, University of Leicester
Dr Jennifer Cooke, Lecturer in English, Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University
James Donaghey, Postgraduate Researcher, Loughborough University
Dr Simon Downs, Lecturer in Graphic Communication, School of the Arts, Loughborough University
Teresa Xavier Fernandes, Postgraduate Researcher, Loughborough University
Dr Cristos Iliopoulos, Former Doctoral Student, Loughborough University
Dr John Nightingale, Former Doctoral Student, Loughborough University
Dr Saku Pinta, Former Doctoral Student, Loughborough University
Dr Alex Prichard, Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Exeter
Dr Sureyyya Turkeli, Former Doctoral Student, Loughborough University
Dr Gillian Whiteley, Senior Lecturer in Visual and Material Culture, School of the Arts, Loughborough University
Dr Gwendolyn Windpassinger, Former Doctoral Student, Loughborough University
Dr Matthew Wilson, Former Doctoral Student, Loughborough University
The following publications are freely available on the university's Institutional Repository. See also below for papers and videos of ARG seminars.
PhD theses completed at Loughborough:
Christos Iliopoulos, Nietzsche and anarchism: an elective affinity and a nietzschean reading of the December 08 revolt in Athens
John Nightingale, The Concept of Solidarity in Anarchist Thought
Saku Pinta, Towards a libertarian communism: a conceptual history of the intersections between anarchisms and Marxisms
Alex Prichard, Justice, order and anarchy: the international political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
Sureyya Turkeli, What is anarchism? A reflection on the canon and the constructive potential of its destruction
Gwendolyn Windpassinger, Queer anarcha-feminism: an emerging ideology? The case of Proyectil Fetal
Matthew Wilson, Rules without rulers: the possibilities and limits of anarchism
Publications by current staff:
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (see personal website for more)
Dave Berry
- ‘“Workers of the world embrace!” Homophobia in the French Extreme Left’, Public talk, Cowley Club Bookshop, Brighton, 11 May 2011.
- ‘Entrevista a los creadores del grupe de investigación: Anarchist Studies Network’, in CNT. Organo de la Confederación Nacional del Trabajo no.364 (February 2010), 4pp.
- ‘Anarchist Scholarship’ (Interview) in ZNet – The Spirit of Resistance Lives, 29 August 2008
- ‘Anarchist Scholarship’ (Interview) in Revolution by the Book: The AK Press Blog (2008)
- ‘A Failed Revolution? The experience of the French Popular Front of 1936-38’ in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review no.48/49(Winter 2008), pp.34-38.
Alex Christoyannopoulos
- 'War & Peace: Tolstoy's unconventional Christianity', Premier Christianity, 12 January 2016.
- 'In Depth' live interview with Ed Stagg, BBC Radio Leicester, aired 3 February 2015, 08:30 to 59:38.
- 'Christian anarchism', Public talk, DaseinLab philosophy café, Athens, December 2014
- ‘The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy’s Postsecular International Thought’, Keynote talk, Dialogue of Civilizations: World Public Forum, Rhodes, Greece, September 2014, available available via on WPF 2014 livestream (24:00 to 46:40).
- ‘Tolstoy and Christian Anarchism’, Public talk, Leicester Secular Society, October 2013
- ‘It's Only Shorthand for a Cluster of Ideas and Practices’, JesusRadicals, 20 July 2012
- ‘Contrasting Revolutions: Russia, China, Spain and Iran’, Public talk, Peace News Summer Camp, near Shrewsbury, June 2012
- ‘Should Christians be Anarchists?’, New Left Project, 8 June 2012
- ‘Le Christianisme libertaire’, Public talk, Christianisme et subversion atelier organised by L’association culturelle de Boquen and Le Mouvement du christianisme social, Paris, France, February 2012
- ‘Nev-i Şahsına Münhasır Bir Hristiyan Anarşist: Tolstoy’, Qijika Reş Dergisi'nin 5. Sayısı Çıktı, January 2012, 115-119
- ‘Exclusive Interview with Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, author of Christian Anarchism’, Interview, The Firebrand: A Magazine of Liberatory Politics, 11 July 2011
- ‘The biblical roots of Christian anarchism’, Public talk, Catholic Worker ‘Eurogathering’, near London, June 2011
- ‘An Introduction to Christian Anarchism’, Interview, The Mormon Worker, issue 10, 28 April 2011
- ‘Putting God back in His Throne: Christian anarchists on 1 Samuel 8’, Public talk, Finchley Progressive Synagogue, London, December 2010
- ‘De Tolstoï et Ellul aux Catholic workers, redécouvrir et interroger les perspectives d'une théologie politique de la subversion’, Public talk and atelier at ‘Parvis: Grand Rassemblement’ conference, Lyon, France, November 2010
- ‘Tolstoy's Anarchism’, Radio interview with C. S. Soong, KPFA (Pacifica) Radio’s Against the Grain programme, 8 September 2008
- ‘Una discusión sobre anarquismo cristiano: Entrevista a Alexandre Christoyannopoulos’, Interview by Pedro García Guirao, Erosión: Revista de Pensamiento Anarquista número 3, December 2013, pp. 111-120
- ‘Was Jesus an Anarchist?’, Radio interview with William Crawley, BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence programme, 29 May 2011
- ‘Was Jesus an Anarchist?’, Interview, Will and Testament, William Crawley's BBC blog, 17 May 2011
Uri Gordon
- Anarchist politics in the revolutions of our time, Café Scientifique, Nottingham, 2014
- Anarchists Against the Wall, 2014 Public talks and book presentations at: The Cowley Club, Brighton; New Anarchist Research Group, London; Leicester People’s University; Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham; States of Independence student conference, De Montfort
- Anarchism and the politics of technology, 2014 Public talks at: Breaking the Frame gathering, Derbyshire; Earth First! Summer gathering, Devon
- Anarchismus und Technologie, ASTA / FH Düsseldorf, 2014
- Panelist on war in Gaza, Reclaim Power gathering, Blackpool, 2014
- Participant research in the Israeli Tent Protests, Panelist, Israel Center for Democracy, 2012
- Die Utopie in den Alltag tragen. tachles: Das jüdische Wochenmagazin 12:9, 2012
- ‘Anarchism: The A Word’, The New Internationalist 443, 2011
- ‘System change, not climate change’, Ha’aretz, 10 December 10 2009
- ‘Why the G20 can't deliver’, Ha’aretz, 10 April 2009; in Russian: Aнархизм: слово на буква «А», socialistinfo.ru, October 13; in Japanese: アナーキストとは何か, NI Japan 131
Ruth Kinna
- Interview on anarchy and anarchism, www.minerva.audio, January 15 2016
- Contributor to discussion on anarchism in the academy, ‘El ascenso del septentrión negro. Entrevista sobre los estudios anarquistas en Quebec e Inglaterra’, Opticon, no. 192, http://opcion.itam.mx
- 'Slavery and the anarchist rejection of democracy', public talk, 2015 Mellon Symposium organised by Andrew Cornell, Haverford College, Philadelphia PA., 27 March 2015. http://ww3.haverford.edu/HCAH/center/events/anarchism.php
- 'Is anarchism a useful ideology', BushGreen Live Debate at Bush Theatre, London, 27 May 2015 online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEoeQ1sqq0
- 'An Anarchist Guide to Christmas', STRIKE! Magazine, November 2014
- 'Anarchism', Public talk, Bread and Roses Weekend, Nottingham Writers Studio, 23 November 2014
- 'Anarchism', Podcast Interview, Stand Up and Fight Back, 30 September 2014
- 'Waving bye-bye', Seminar, London Anarchism Research Group, 27 September 2014
- 'An Anarchist Guide to Feminism', STRIKE! Magazine, 14 July 2014
- 'Anarchy and Anarchist Studies', Public talk, Housmans bookshop, London, 25 January 2014
- 'Self-seekers, madmen and poets', Public talk, Café Scientifique, Nottingham, 18 November 2013
- 'Imagined Futures', Public talk, Friends of the William Morris Gallery, 22 May 2013
- 'Guy Aldred', Mayday Magazine, #7, Winter 2012-13
- 'Fighting for a Cause', Documentary interview, William Morris Gallery, 16 April 2012
- 'Remembering Colin Ward', Public talk, Housmans bookshop, London, 7 December, 2011
- 'Anarchism', Public talk, Café Scientifique, Nottingham, 14 November 2011
- 'Guy Aldred: Rebel with a cause', Berfrois, 30 September 2011
- 'Anarchism', Public talk, Lowdham Book Festival, 25 June 2011
- 'Anarchism', Guest post, Liberal England 24 March 2011
- 'Anarchism', Public talk, Independent Publishers Fair, 'States of Independence', De Montfort University, March 2011
- 'Proudhon', Nightwaves, Radio 3, 14 January 2009
- 'Anarchism' online interview, November 2009
Past speakers (2014-15)
An exciting innovation in 2014-15 was the Critical Citizenship, Activism and Art Series 2014-15, whereby The Politicized Practice Research Group and the Anarchism Research Group joined forces with a broader range of Loughborough researchers to convene a series of events on Critical Citizenship, Activism and Art. The events, under the banner of the Communication, Culture and Citizenship Research Challenge, exhibited and reflected on the use of diverse forms of art to question prevailing political, economic and cultural orthodoxies. In our shrinking world, where communication media remain dominated by entrenched interests and surveillance, critical citizens are developing creative tactics and performances to provoke debate in the public sphere. This series is a space to showcase and critically discuss art activists’ efforts to give a voice to the excluded, promote inclusive alternatives, and enrich global culture and citizenship. This series builds on local multidisciplinary strengths and specialisms, and contributes to the University’s strategic ambitions to enhance the global community’s social, cultural and economic wellbeing, to put forward solutions to contemporary global challenges, and to impact national and international citizenship practices.
Past speakers (2012-13)
| Name | Affiliation | Title | Date | Room |
| Allan Antliff | University of Victoria |
Pacifist-Anarchism and the Arts: Kenneth Patchen, Jackson MacLow, John Cage and Donald Judd |
31 October, 5-6:30pm | A204 (Schofield) |
| Kathy Ferguson | Hawaii |
Anarchist women of the first wave |
7 November, 5-6:30pm | A204 (Schofield) |
| Diogo Duarte | Instituto de Historia Contemporânea, Lisbon | Anarchism and the State in Portugal in the early 20th century | 5 December, 5-6:30pm | A204 (Schofield) |
| Peter Ryley | Independent |
Anarchism's Hidden Histories: Researching Individualism in 19th Century Britain
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13 February, 5-6:30pm | A204 (Schofield) |
| Uri Gordon | Loughborough | Contemporary Anarchist Critiques of the State | 24 April, 5-6:30pm | A204 (Schofield) |
| Constance Bantman | Surrey | Transnational lives - internationalism and nationalism in Belle Epoque anarchism | 1 May, 5-6:30pm | A204 (Schofield) |
Past speakers (2011 - 2012)
| Name | Affiliation | Title | Date |
| Georgios Sagriotis | Panteion and Patras |
Benjamin and Anarchism (paper available below) |
2/11/11 |
| Anthony Fiscella | Lund University, Center for Theology and Religious Studies | From Anarcho-Fascism to Libertarian Spirituality: What Does it Men to be Free? | 29/11/11 |
| Christos Memos | University of York | Anarchism and Marxism: In Search of Lost Revolutionary Time | 18/1/12 |
| Judy Greenway | East London | ‘Not the Church and not the State, women must decide our fate’: anarchist feminists and the politics of reproduction. | 8/2/12 |
| Diane Morgan | Leeds | Seriality and Everyone's Place Under the Sun: Proudhon with Kant (paper available below) | 7/3/12 |
| Andrew Cornell | Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3 | The Evolution U.S. Anarchism in the Mid-20th Century: From Mother Earth to the Fifth Estate | 25/4/12 |
| Richard Morgan | UCL | Hygiene is the best of medicines': Petr Kropotkin and Criminological Science. | 16/5/12 |
Past speakers (2010-11)
| Name | Affiliation | Title | Date |
| Cris Iliopoulos | Loughborough | The anarchist aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy (paper available below) |
06/12/10 |
| Maurizio Atzeni | Loughborough | Worker Occupations in Argentina (paper available here) | 26/01/11 |
| Charlotte Alston | Northumbria | Tolstoyism: An international movement in the late 19th / early 20th centuries | 09/03/11 |
| Emma Dixon | Bangor | Women, Love and Anarchism: Anarcho-Sexism and The Rise of British Second Wave Feminism | 04/05/11 |
| Gabriel Kuhn | independent | Gustav Landauer, Erich Mühsam, and Anarchism in Germany | 05/05/11 |
Past speakers (2010)
| Name | Title | Date |
| Saul Newman | Postanarchism and contemporary politics (paper available below) | 10/12/08 |
| Paul McLaughlin | Bakunin and Marx: An Unbridgeable Chasm? (paper available below) | 26/01/09 |
| Ben Franks | Anarchism and the Problem of Political Philosophy (slides available below) | 13/05/09 |
| Paul Blackledge | Between science and morality: Victor Serge and Simon Critchley on Marxism, anarchism and the ethics of anti?capitalism | 10/03/10 |
