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Essay #96: Dana Williams, ‘Concerning Anarchist Sociology: Working Within and Against Discipline’
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Essay #96: Dana Williams, ‘Concerning Anarchist Sociology: Working Within and Against Discipline’
In this essay, Dana Williams discusses the many complicated connections between sociology and anarchism. In particular, Williams explores what could be meant by "anarchist-sociology" and the potential for a social science anarchist studies.
Dana Williams is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico in California (USA). Williams's most recent publications include "The Uncivil Sphere and Anti-authoritarian Movements: Problems of Status Quo Violence, Internationalist Militancy, and Non-state Civil Society" (published in Theory in Action) and "Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces" (with Spencer Louis Potiker and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, in Journal of World-Systems Research), and a forthcoming book about radical trust with Pluto Press.
Williams can be found on social media at: https://scholar.social/web/@dmw and https://bsky.app/profile/dmwilliams.bsky.social
Full-text articles available here: https://hcommons.org/members/dmwilliams/ and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dana-Williams-4
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