Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility
Subtitle: The Colin Ward Reader
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Place of publication: Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781849350204
Description: "Widely regarded as Britain's most influential anarchist thinker for over half a century, Colin Ward's work ranges in scope from urban planning to deschooling, from mutualism to geography, from Kropotkin to Buber, to cotters, squatters, and beyond. Drawing inspiration from the everyday creativity of ordinary people, Ward championed a unique social and environmental politics premised on the possibilities of democratic self-organisation and self-management from below. Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility provides a wide-ranging overview of Ward's earliest journalism and his later work, including seminal essays and extracts from his most important books."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337).
Table of contents: title: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
pagenum: v; title: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: vii; title: SECTION ONE: LIFE, POLITICS AND JOURNALISM; label: 1
title: Talking Anarchy: Colin Ward in Conversation with David Goodway
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The State
pagenum: 13; label: 3
title: Allied Military Government
pagenum: 21; label: 4
title: Political Use of Relief
pagenum: 25; label: 5
title: Contrary to Our Interests
pagenum: 27; label: 6
title: The Unwritten Handbook
pagenum: 29; label: 7
title: People and Ideas Takes a Last Look Round at the 50s
pagenum: 33; label: 8
title: Adventure Playground: A Parable of Anarchy
pagenum: 37; label: 9
title: Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward Reappraises the Titmuss Book That Gave New Meaning to the Expression “Blood Bank”
pagenum: 45; label: 10
title: Anarchism as a Theory of Organization
pagenum: 47; title: SECTION TWO: CULTURE, PLACE AND HOUSING; label: 1
title: Plotlands: The Unauthorised Version
pagenum: 57; label: 2
title: The People Act: The Postwar Squatters’ Movement
pagenum: 63; label: 3
title: The Do-It-Yourself New Town
pagenum: 71; label: 4
title: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Reference
pagenum: 85; label: 5
title: Self-Help in Urban Renewal
pagenum: 95; label: 6
title: Fringe Benefits: Squatters in Rural Norfolk Have a Message…
pagenum: 101; label: 7
title: The Land is Whose?
pagenum: 103; label: 8
title: Self-Help and Mutual Aid: The Stolen Vocabulary
pagenum: 109; label: 9
title: High Density Life
pagenum: 121; title: SECTION THREE: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND CREATIVITY; label: 1
title: The Future of the Design Professions
pagenum: 129; label: 2
title: Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward is Amazed at Getting Out of the Labyrinth
pagenum: 133; label: 3
title: Alternatives in Architecture
pagenum: 135; label: 4
title: Walter Segal—Community Architect
pagenum: 141; label: 5
title: Preface to John F.C. Turner’s Housing By People
pagenum: 145; label: 6
title: Chartres: The Making of a Miracle
pagenum: 149; label: 7
title: How the Child Sees the City
pagenum: 157; label: 8
title: Antiquarians, Explorers, Neophiliacs
pagenum: 167; label: 9
title: The Anarchist House
pagenum: 175; title: SECTION FOUR: WORK, LEISURE, EDUCATION AND PLAY; label: 1
title: The Factory We Never Had
pagenum: 185; label: 2
title: In the Sandbox of the City
pagenum: 189; label: 3
title: Pioneer Camps
pagenum: 183; label: 4
title: Images of Childhood in Old Postcards
pagenum: 219; label: 5
title: Whose Environment?
pagenum: 223; label: 6
title: The Anarchists and Schools
pagenum: 231; label: 7
title: Towards a Poor School
pagenum: 239; label: 8
title: Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward is alarmed as the City of London spreads over Spitalfields
pagenum: 251; title: SECTION FIVE: INFLUENCES AND ALTERNATIVES; label: 1
title: Anarchy and a Plausible Future
pagenum: 255; label: 2
title: Martin Buber (1878–1965)
pagenum: 263; label: 3
title: The Welfare Road We Failed to Take
pagenum: 271; label: 4
title: Green Cities
pagenum: 279; label: 5
title: Anarchist Sociology of Federalism
pagenum: 285; label: 6
title: Deadsville Revisited
pagenum: 295; label: 7
title: An Anarchist Approach to Urban Planning
pagenum: 303; label: 8
title: A Peopled Landscape
pagenum: 311; title: NOTES
pagenum: 321