Radical Gotham
Subtitle: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab’s Saloon to Occupy Wall Street
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Champaign, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780252082542
Copyright date: 2017
Description: *The intersection of anarchy and over 150 years of city history*

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, Italian, and Yiddish- 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, Tom Goyens
pagenum: 1; title: Johann Most and the German Anarchists, Tom Goyens
pagenum: 12; title: Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side, Kenyon Zimmer
pagenum: 33; title: Fired by the Ideal: Italian Anarchists in New York City, 1880s–1920s, Marcella Bencivenni
pagenum: 54; title: Times of Propaganda and Struggle: El Despertar and Brooklyn’s Spanish Anarchists, 1890–1905, Christopher J. Castañeda
pagenum: 77; title: From Union Square to Heaven: Dorothy Day and the Origin of Catholic Worker Anarchism, Anne Klejment
pagenum: 100; title: New Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942–1954, Andrew Cornell
pagenum: 122; title: Poetic Tension: The Aesthetic Politics of the Living Theatre, Allan Antliff
pagenum: 142; title: Up against the Wall Motherfucker: Ideology and Action in a “Street Gang with an Analysis”, Caitlin Casey
pagenum: 161; title: Gordon Matta-­Clark’s Anarchitecture, Erin Wallace
pagenum: 180; title: ABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space, Alan W. Moore
pagenum: 201; title: The Influence of Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street, Heather Gautney
pagenum: 221; title: Contributors
pagenum: 241; title: Index
pagenum: 245