English Language Anarchist(ic) Journals
For journals in other languages, see Research on Anarchism: Journals
- ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. ACME is an on-line international journal for critical and radical analyses of the social, the spatial and the political. The journal's purpose is to provide a forum for the publication of critical and radical work about space in the social sciences - including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist perspectives. Analyses that are critical and radical are understood to be part of the praxis of social and political change aimed at challenging, dismantling, and transforming prevalent relations, systems, and structures of capitalist exploitation, oppression, imperialism, neo-liberalism, national aggression, and environmental destruction.
- Anarchist Studies is an inter-disciplinary journal of scholarly research into the history, culture and theory of anarchism.
- aporia journal autonomous thought on the latest state of emergency.
- borderlands e-journal " is a refereed international journal that aims to promote transdisciplinary work across the humanities, work which might also intersect with diverse practices and sites in culture, policy and everyday life. [...] We hope that the borderlands e-journal will draw in writers and readers from around the globe, and speed up a democratisation and cross-fertilisation of thought from a variety of cultures, debates, conflicts and intellectual traditions, united by a dream of internationalism, a respect for difference, and a common struggle for global social justice. "
- Aufheben: An autonomous Marxist journal. "Our influences included the Italian autonomia movement of 1969-77, the Situationists, and others who took Marx's work as a basic starting point and used it to develop the communist project beyond the anti-proletarian dogmatisms of Leninism (in all its varieties) and to reflect the current state of the class struggle. We also recognized the moment of truth in versions of class struggle anarchism, the German and Italian lefts and other tendencies. In developing proletarian theory we needed to go beyond all these past movements at the same time as we developed them - just as they had done with previous revolutionary movements."
- Common Voice: an
Electronic Journal of Non-Market, Anti-State ideas.
- Democracy & Nature: The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. "For us, democracy, which, properly defined, implies the abolition of the unequal distribution of political, economic and social power, is not only the political expression of a project with freedom as its aim, defined as individual and collective autonomy. Democracy is also the only way out of the present multidimensional crisis. This is so, because it is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites that marks the foundation of every aspect of this crisis."
- The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest flies in the airs of the present, gathering up words like sticks shaking in the breeze. The journal sits at a discursive juncture between art and (often anarchist) activism with the knowledge that a knowledge and discourse are one tool to change the world.
- The New Formulation: An Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books is a biannual journal that contains comparative book reviews examining the value of recent publications to the development of a contemporary anarchist theory and politics.
- New Political Science "The focus of New Political Science as official journal of the CNPS, is to develop analyses which reflect a commitment to progressive social change and which treat topics that are within exploratory phases of development in political science. It insists on the broadest possible definition of 'politics', and holds that political and cultural development cannot be understood in isolation from each other."
- Perspectives on Anarchist Theory The Institute for Anarchist Studies' biannual newsletter.
- Social Anarchism As both political philosophy and personal lifestyle, social anarchism promotes community self-reliance, direct participation in political decision-making, respect for nature, and nonviolent paths to peace and justice. (Independent US Journal)
- Social Movement Studies "seeks to re-engage with the world outside academia, reviving the idea of writing as intervention. At a time when movements across the globe are back on the streets, it would be a shame indeed if all our expertise offered nothing but divorced commentary and analysis after the event. It is a vital part of the project that the journal is open to contributions from activists and cultural workers ... [T]he point of this journal is to change the world, though we may be willing or indeed forced to settle for analysing, reclaiming, theorizing, celebrating, critiquing the kinds of social movements and related cultural moments that themselves have aimed at or even achieved that grand, that dangerous ambition."
- Theory & Event "features Essays and other forms of writing and representation, including poetry, photos, montage, hypertext links, and as the medium matures, video and sound, that address the power of sovereignty, territory and government; old, new, and emerging forms of identity; and the politics of representation as it appears in elections, protest, commodities, and high and popular cultures. It encourages contributions that are both rigorous and lively, and that are attentive to scholarship without sacrificing creativity or timeliness."
- Theory and Society "is a forum for the international community of scholars that publishes theoretically-informed analyses of social processes. It opens its pages to authors working at the frontiers of social analysis, regardless of discipline. Its subject matter ranges from prehistory to contemporary affairs, from treatments of single individuals and national societies to world culture, from discussions of theory to methodological critique, from First World to Third World - but always in the effort to bring together theory, criticism and concrete observation."