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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.

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English
Pages
337

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Anarchism, Education, philosophy, Social sciences, philosophy, Housing, Social policy, History
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Colin Ward (1924-2010)

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Table of Contents

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Page v
INTRODUCTION Page vii
SECTION ONE: LIFE, POLITICS AND JOURNALISM
1. Talking Anarchy: Colin Ward in Conversation with David Goodway Page 3
2. The State Page 13
3. Allied Military Government Page 21
4. Political Use of Relief Page 25
5. Contrary to Our Interests Page 27
6. The Unwritten Handbook Page 29
7. People and Ideas Takes a Last Look Round at the 50s Page 33
8. Adventure Playground: A Parable of Anarchy Page 37
9. Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward Reappraises the Titmuss Book That Gave New Meaning to the Expression “Blood Bank” Page 45
10. Anarchism as a Theory of Organization Page 47
SECTION TWO: CULTURE, PLACE AND HOUSING
1. Plotlands: The Unauthorised Version Page 57
2. The People Act: The Postwar Squatters’ Movement Page 63
3. The Do-It-Yourself New Town Page 71
4. Fiction, Non-Fiction and Reference Page 85
5. Self-Help in Urban Renewal Page 95
6. Fringe Benefits: Squatters in Rural Norfolk Have a Message… Page 101
7. The Land is Whose? Page 103
8. Self-Help and Mutual Aid: The Stolen Vocabulary Page 109
9. High Density Life Page 121
SECTION THREE: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND CREATIVITY
1. The Future of the Design Professions Page 129
2. Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward is Amazed at Getting Out of the Labyrinth Page 133
3. Alternatives in Architecture Page 135
4. Walter Segal—Community Architect Page 141
5. Preface to John F.C. Turner’s Housing By People Page 145
6. Chartres: The Making of a Miracle Page 149
7. How the Child Sees the City Page 157
8. Antiquarians, Explorers, Neophiliacs Page 167
9. The Anarchist House Page 175
SECTION FOUR: WORK, LEISURE, EDUCATION AND PLAY
1. The Factory We Never Had Page 185
2. In the Sandbox of the City Page 189
3. Pioneer Camps Page 183
4. Images of Childhood in Old Postcards Page 219
5. Whose Environment? Page 223
6. The Anarchists and Schools Page 231
7. Towards a Poor School Page 239
8. Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward is alarmed as the City of London spreads over Spitalfields Page 251
SECTION FIVE: INFLUENCES AND ALTERNATIVES
1. Anarchy and a Plausible Future Page 255
2. Martin Buber (1878–1965) Page 263
3. The Welfare Road We Failed to Take Page 271
4. Green Cities Page 279
5. Anarchist Sociology of Federalism Page 285
6. Deadsville Revisited Page 295
7. An Anarchist Approach to Urban Planning Page 303
8. A Peopled Landscape Page 311
NOTES Page 321

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337).

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Dewey Decimal Class
335.83
Library of Congress
HX833 .W375 2011, HX833

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Chris Wilbert
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Damian F. White

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Paperback
Pagination
xxx, 337p.
Number of pages
337
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

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OL24645202M
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LCCN
2010925770
OCLC/WorldCat
601121195
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