Overview

New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's cosmopolitan setting created a unique interplay between anarchism's human actors and an urban space that invites constant reinvention. Tom Goyens gathers essays that demonstrate anarchism's endurance as a political and cultural ideology and movement in New York from the 1870s to 2011. The authors cover the gamut of anarchy's emergence in and connection to the city. Some offer important new insights on German, Yiddish, Italian, and Spanish-speaking anarchists. Others explore anarchism's influence on religion, politics, and the visual and performing arts. A concluding essay looks at Occupy Wall Street's roots in New York City's anarchist tradition. Contributors: Allan Antliff, Marcella Bencivenni, Caitlin Casey, Christopher J. Castañeda, Andrew Cornell, Heather Gautney, Tom Goyens, Anne Klejment, Alan W. Moore, Erin Wallace, and Kenyon Zimmer.

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Author:   Tom Goyens ,  Allan Antliff ,  Marcella Bencivenni ,  Caitlin Casey
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9780252082542

ISBN 10:   0252082540
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   12 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CoverTitleCopyrightDedicationContentsIntroduction - Tom GoyensJohann Most and the German Anarchists - Tom GoyensSaul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side - Kenyon ZimmerFired by the Ideal: Italian Anarchists in New York City, 1880s–1920s - Marcella BencivenniTimes of Propaganda and Struggle: El Despertar and Brooklyn’s Spanish Anarchists, 1890–1905 ChristopFrom Union Square to Heaven: Dorothy Day and the Origin of Catholic Worker Anarchism - Anne KlejmentNew Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942–1954 - Andrew CornelPoetic Tension: The Aesthetic Politics of the Living Theatre - Allan AntliffUp against the Wall Motherfucker: Ideology and Action in a “Street Gang with an Analysis” - Caitlin CaseyGordon MattaClark’s Anarchitecture - Erin WallaceABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space - Alan W. MooreThe Influence of Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street - Heather GautneyList of ContributorsIndex

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With its chapters on labor, class, gender, culture, and prefigurative politics, this is a cutting-edge synthesis that shows how anarchism survived from the 1880s to the present in New York City--one of the central nodes in global anarchist networks. --Kirwin Shaffer, coeditor of<i> In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History</i>

With its chapters on labor, class, gender, culture, and prefigurative politics, this is a cutting-edge synthesis that shows how anarchism survived from the 1880s to the present in New York City--one of the central nodes in global anarchist networks. --Kirwin Shaffer, coeditor of In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History

Author Information

Tom Goyens is an associate professor of history at Salisbury University. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914.

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