An exciting, new project recently came to my attention: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 – Present. Edited by Immanuel Ness, this eight-volume, 5,000-page, peer-reviewed work will be published by Blackwell next year and is sure to become the definitive reference work for students of social radicalism.
The publication will be unique not only because of its length but also because of its extensive coverage of the global anarchist movement: it is scheduled to contain a total of 200,000 words (i.e., hundreds and hundreds of pages!) on the topic. It will include entries on the movement in specific countries, biographies of individual anarchists, discussions of key events and themes in the movement’s history, as well as explorations of various tendencies, tactics, institutions, and organizations. Jesse Cohn, author of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation, is the Associate Editor in charge of anarchist content.
Encyclopedia editors are still looking for writers to pen entries on many of the anarchist-related topics that they intend to treat in the book. I recently agreed to write entries on anarchism in Argentina, Mexico, and Puerto Rico (respectively), but many topics remain unassigned. Below is a list of unclaimed entries as of December 18, 2007. Please contact Jesse Cohn if you are interested in taking on one of them.
(Note: The editors are on a tight schedule. Initial drafts of 250 word entries are due on January 14, 2008; 500-1000 word entries need to be in by January 29; and entries of more than 1,000 words must be received by February 25. Production is slated to begin on May Day, 2008.)
| The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: unassigned entries on December 18, 2007 (261 entries have already been assigned). | |
| ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS BY COUNTRY/REGION
Subject / Number of words Armenia 500 ANARCHIST BIOGRAPHIES Subject Number of words Batthyány, Ervin 250 |
Mareš, Michal 250 Nieva, Teobaldo 250 Park Yeol 500 Pelletier, Madeleine 250 Pellicer Paraire, Antonio 500 Poch y Gascon, Amparo 500 Ponzán Vidal, Francisco 250 Prat, José 500 Puig Antich, Salvador 250 Radowitzky, Simon 250 Rhodakanaty, Plotino C. 250 Robin, Paul 250 Ryner, Han 500 Sabaté Llopart, Francisco 250 Sánchez Saornil, Lucía 500 Sanshiro Ishikawa 250 Sárraga, Belén 250 Schwartzbard, Samuel 250 Schwitzguébel, Adhémar 250 Serrano y Oteiza, Juan 250 Séverine (Caroline Remy) 250 Shin Chaeho 250 Tolain, Henri 250 Varlin, Eugène 500 Vernet, Madeleine 250 Vigné d’Octon, Paul 250 Witkop-Rocker, Milly 250 Yu-Rim 250 Zisly, Henry 250 EVENTS IN ANARCHIST HISTORY Subject Number of words Asturias uprising of 1934 1,500 THEMES IN ANARCHIST HISTORY Subject Number of words Anarchism and Sexuality 2,000 ANARCHIST TENDENCIES AND TACTICS Subject Number of words Collectivism 500 ANARCHIST ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Subject Number of words Anti-Racist Action (ARA) [Canada, USA] 500 |
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