# Constitutionalising Anarchy - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : constitutionalising anarchy, présentation de l’éditeur anarchism is often assumed to stand outside constitutionalism, yet it forms a significant, if ...

## Parution

- **ISBN** : 978-1-009-78549-5
- **Éditeur** : Cambridge University Press

## Résumé

Présentation de l’éditeur
Anarchism is often assumed to stand outside constitutionalism, yet it forms a significant, if overlooked, tradition of constitutional thought. Addressing global constitutional crises and the impasses of state-centred politics, this book brings anarchism into productive dialogue with constitutional, political and international theory. At its core is a reconstruction of anarchist social theory grounded in an ontology of anarchy shaped by European social science and republican concerns with dividing and balancing power. These ideas were reinterpreted by major anarchist thinkers - from Proudhon to Lucy Parsons, and from Tolstoy to Kōtoku Shūsui - who advanced decentralised, federalist alternatives to imperial and hierarchical orders. Combining intellectual history with co-produced research alongside anarchist groups, Constitutionalising Anarchy shows how constitutional practices developed within militant labour unions, protest movements and cooperatives across the twentieth century. It reconsiders anarchy, constitutionalism and the possibilities of political organisation. 
Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University, Alex Prichard, University of Exeter
Sommaire
Introduction. Constitutionalising Anarchy
1 - Constitutionalising and the Spectre of Anarchy
2 - The Anarchist Critique of Constitutionalism
3 - Anarchy, Culture and Association
4 - War, Pacification and Decentralised Federalism
5 - Decentralised Federalism and Class War Constitutionalism in the IWW
6 - Democracy versus Anarchy in Occupy Oakland
7 - Cultures of Anarchy in Radical Routes
Conclusion. Anarchist Constitutionalising as Everyday Revolutions


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2026-10-30

## Tags

crise, Droit constitutionnel, Droit public, Europe, Histoire des idées politiques, Pouvoirs, Régimes politiques, Science politique, Sciences politiques

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