Benjamin Franks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Franks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Franks |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6078-8907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Four Models of Anarchist Engagements with Constitutionalism
Political anarchism's hostility to constitutional activity has been frequently identified as the core feature distinguishing it from other members of the socialist tradition. However, four minority anarchist traditions which engage in democratic activism can also be identified: minor formal engagement, horizontal structural reformism, revolutionary (anti-)representation, and guerrilla activism. To analyze these models of engagement, this paper ex…
Anarchisms, Postanarchisms and Ethics
What are the core features of an anarchist ethics? Why do some anarchisms identify themselves as anti-moral or amoral? And what are the practical outcomes of ethical analysis for anarchist and post-anarchist practice? This book shows how we can identify and evaluate different forms of anarchism through their ethical principles, and we can identify these ethics in the evolving anarchist organizations, tactics and forms of critique. The book outlin…
Film Review: Concussion
Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach
Utilising Michael Freeden's morphological (or conceptual) approach to the study of ideologies, this book applies this approach too the study of anarchist ideology. The volume comprising 15 (chapters) and an introduction – authored by a handpicked group of established and rising scholars – investigates how anarchists often seek to sharpen their message and struggle to determine what ideas and actions are central to their identity. This book examin…
Spanish anarchist engagements in electoralism: From Street to Party Politics
The eruption of the Spanish 15M movement in 2011 was marked by a high degree of political participation and creative experimentation. The political repertoire has constantly been re-evaluated, with methods revised and evolving, from the occupation of public spaces to the recent creation of new constitutional parties. One of the key aspects of these tactical revisions has been the involvement of anarchist actors in an experimental process of engag…
Anti-Social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives
Anti-Social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives." Social History, 41(1), pp. 115–116
Ideological hybrids: The contrary case of Tory anarchism
This article provides an account of ideological hybridity. It describes and categorizes four main types of ideological hybrid in order to examine a range of sub-ideologies and cross-breeds but concentrates on identifying and assessing the particular phenomena described as conservative (or ‘Tory’) anarchisms. The article demonstrates how an ideological hybrid’s morphological relationship to its parent ideologies can alter in different geographical…
Between Anarchism and Marxism: The Beginnings and Ends of the Schism
This paper analyses the development of the schism between Marxism and anarchism and explores two distinct methodological approaches to investigating these apparently discrete ideologies: one is derived from analytic political philosophy; the other is an adaptation of Michael Freeden’s conceptual approach. The former views the division between Marxism and anarchism as the result of a clear distinction in universal principles, an account that is fo…
Anarchism and Moral Philosophy
This collection explores the nature and role of ethics within anarchist thought and practice, examining normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical issues through some of the theoretical insights of a
Anarchism and Moral Philosophy
This collection explores the nature and role of ethics within anarchist thought and practice, examining normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical issues through some of the theoretical insights of anarchism. It comprises contributions from international scholars working within the fields of philosophy and political theory. (Source: [Palgrave Macmillan](https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230580664
Postanarchism: A critical assessment1
Post-modernism has had a significant influence on anarchism, notably in the interrelation between the theoretical positions of libertarianism and post-structuralism (a set of theories and philosophies strongly identified with, but not identical to, post-modernism). This has generated a subset of anarchist thinking referred to as postanarchism. Postanarchism, like anarchism, is a fluid assemblage of political concepts that alters according to geog…
Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
This thesis examines, classifies and evaluates the tactics and organisational methods of British and Irish anarchist groups, which operated in the period 1984-1999 (although reference is made to groupings and events outside of this period). The thesis explains how class struggle anarchism, which was a minority trend even within the libertarian milieu, has developed into a significant and lively (anti-)political movement. This thesis examines rece…
British anarchisms and the miners' strike
This paper distinguishes some of the main currents in British anarchism at the time of the miners' strike. It explores the influence of these libertarian movements on the conflict in the coalfield, and assesses how the strike influenced the development of British anarchisms
Spanish anarchist engagements in electoralism: From Street to Party Politics
The eruption of the Spanish 15M movement in 2011 was marked by a high degree of political participation and creative experimentation. The political repertoire has constantly been re-evaluated, with methods revised and evolving, from the occupation of public spaces to the recent creation of new constitutional parties. One of the key aspects of these tactical revisions has been the involvement of anarchist actors in an experimental process of engag…
Postanarchism: A critical assessment1
Post-modernism has had a significant influence on anarchism, notably in the interrelation between the theoretical positions of libertarianism and post-structuralism (a set of theories and philosophies strongly identified with, but not identical to, post-modernism). This has generated a subset of anarchist thinking referred to as postanarchism. Postanarchism, like anarchism, is a fluid assemblage of political concepts that alters according to geog…
Between Anarchism and Marxism: The Beginnings and Ends of the Schism
This paper analyses the development of the schism between Marxism and anarchism and explores two distinct methodological approaches to investigating these apparently discrete ideologies: one is derived from analytic political philosophy; the other is an adaptation of Michael Freeden’s conceptual approach. The former views the division between Marxism and anarchism as the result of a clear distinction in universal principles, an account that is fo…
Film Review: Concussion
Anti-Social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives
Anti-Social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives." Social History, 41(1), pp. 115–116
British anarchisms and the miners' strike
This paper distinguishes some of the main currents in British anarchism at the time of the miners' strike. It explores the influence of these libertarian movements on the conflict in the coalfield, and assesses how the strike influenced the development of British anarchisms
British anarchisms and the miners' strike
This paper distinguishes some of the main currents in British anarchism at the time of the miners' strike. It explores the influence of these libertarian movements on the conflict in the coalfield, and assesses how the strike influenced the development of British anarchisms
Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
This thesis examines, classifies and evaluates the tactics and organisational methods of British and Irish anarchist groups, which operated in the period 1984-1999 (although reference is made to groupings and events outside of this period). The thesis explains how class struggle anarchism, which was a minority trend even within the libertarian milieu, has developed into a significant and lively (anti-)political movement. This thesis examines rece…
Postanarchism: A critical assessment1
Post-modernism has had a significant influence on anarchism, notably in the interrelation between the theoretical positions of libertarianism and post-structuralism (a set of theories and philosophies strongly identified with, but not identical to, post-modernism). This has generated a subset of anarchist thinking referred to as postanarchism. Postanarchism, like anarchism, is a fluid assemblage of political concepts that alters according to geog…
Anarchism and Moral Philosophy
This collection explores the nature and role of ethics within anarchist thought and practice, examining normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical issues through some of the theoretical insights of a
Anarchism and Moral Philosophy
This collection explores the nature and role of ethics within anarchist thought and practice, examining normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical issues through some of the theoretical insights of anarchism. It comprises contributions from international scholars working within the fields of philosophy and political theory. (Source: [Palgrave Macmillan](https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230580664
Between Anarchism and Marxism: The Beginnings and Ends of the Schism
This paper analyses the development of the schism between Marxism and anarchism and explores two distinct methodological approaches to investigating these apparently discrete ideologies: one is derived from analytic political philosophy; the other is an adaptation of Michael Freeden’s conceptual approach. The former views the division between Marxism and anarchism as the result of a clear distinction in universal principles, an account that is fo…
Anti-Social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives
Anti-Social behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives." Social History, 41(1), pp. 115–116
Ideological hybrids: The contrary case of Tory anarchism
This article provides an account of ideological hybridity. It describes and categorizes four main types of ideological hybrid in order to examine a range of sub-ideologies and cross-breeds but concentrates on identifying and assessing the particular phenomena described as conservative (or ‘Tory’) anarchisms. The article demonstrates how an ideological hybrid’s morphological relationship to its parent ideologies can alter in different geographical…
Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach
Utilising Michael Freeden's morphological (or conceptual) approach to the study of ideologies, this book applies this approach too the study of anarchist ideology. The volume comprising 15 (chapters) and an introduction – authored by a handpicked group of established and rising scholars – investigates how anarchists often seek to sharpen their message and struggle to determine what ideas and actions are central to their identity. This book examin…
Spanish anarchist engagements in electoralism: From Street to Party Politics
The eruption of the Spanish 15M movement in 2011 was marked by a high degree of political participation and creative experimentation. The political repertoire has constantly been re-evaluated, with methods revised and evolving, from the occupation of public spaces to the recent creation of new constitutional parties. One of the key aspects of these tactical revisions has been the involvement of anarchist actors in an experimental process of engag…
Anarchisms, Postanarchisms and Ethics
What are the core features of an anarchist ethics? Why do some anarchisms identify themselves as anti-moral or amoral? And what are the practical outcomes of ethical analysis for anarchist and post-anarchist practice? This book shows how we can identify and evaluate different forms of anarchism through their ethical principles, and we can identify these ethics in the evolving anarchist organizations, tactics and forms of critique. The book outlin…
Film Review: Concussion
Four Models of Anarchist Engagements with Constitutionalism
Political anarchism's hostility to constitutional activity has been frequently identified as the core feature distinguishing it from other members of the socialist tradition. However, four minority anarchist traditions which engage in democratic activism can also be identified: minor formal engagement, horizontal structural reformism, revolutionary (anti-)representation, and guerrilla activism. To analyze these models of engagement, this paper ex…
Sociology (11 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 works) · Anarchism (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works)