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London Anarchist Bookfair - 18/10/08
The ASN will be represented at the bookfair and will be running a stall for Anarchist Studies
ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
I am the founder of the ASN and I was recently awarded my PhD from the Department of Politics, IR and European Studies, Loughborough University. My PhD thesis is titled "Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)".
The idea for the group was first put forward in October 2005. After managing to convince three others to give papers on anarchism and world politics at the British International Studies Association conference at St Andrews in December last year, I thought I might try and get a couple of panels sorted for the 2006 Political Science Association conference at the University of Reading. Both conferences gave rise to 13 papers on anarchism accross the two biggest political studies conferences in the UK. (abstracts for these panels can be found in Documents) Since there also seemed to be a huge e-community of people interested in anarchism, and a significant number of academics and research students interested in the subect, it seemed to make sense to try and get some official recognition and, obviously, some money.
With the help and advice of Dr Eric Herring, the convenor of NASPIR, and Dr Ruth Kinna and Dr Dave Berry at Loughborough University, we managed to get a PSA specialist group founded. As far as I'm aware, this is the only such group in existence. The original proposal for the group can also be found in Documents.
A discussion with Dr Sharif Gemie also led to the formal affiliation of this group with the journal Anarchist Studies. This is the only peer-reviewed academic journal around that is entirely devoted to anarchism as theory and practice. you can find it here: Anarchist Studies
It seemed that with the Anarchist Academics email list in such boyant health, and the journal Anarchist Studies as an obvious publishing outlet, a specialist group was all we needed to finish this British-based initiative.
I have a BA Hons degree from Nottingham Trent University, an MA Hons (by research) from the University of Wollongong (NSW, Australia) and a taught MSc Econ from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Each of these degrees was in International Relations. My main research interests are in the political theory of international relations. I was also trained as a chef in Sydney, London and North Wales.
Contact: alprich[@]gmail.com