Rethinking Sociology: A Constructive Approach to Anarchism and Social Change

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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