HIST 1402 - ANARCHISM: HIST, THRY & PRACT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar will examine the origins, development, and influence of anarchism from its heyday (1860s-1930s) until the present. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, it will survey the major personalities, complex ideas, vexing controversies, and diverse movements associated with Western and non-Western anarchism. Traditional anarchist concerns with state power, authority, capitalism, social inequality, nationalism, and militarism will be explored. It will also examine anarchist advocacy of individual and collective liberation, mutual aid, workers' organization, direct democracy, alternative education, sexual freedom, social ecology, and direct action. Lastly, this seminar will analyze contemporary anarchism and its relationship to current globalizing processes.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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