An edition of Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader
(2011)
Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility
The Colin Ward Reader
by Colin Ward
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Widely regarded as Britain’s most influential anarchist thinker for over half a century, Colin Ward’s work ranges in scope from urban planning to deschooling, from mutualism to geography, from Kropotkin to Buber, to cotters, squatters, and beyond. Drawing inspiration from the everyday creativity of ordinary people, Ward championed a unique social and environmental politics premised on the possibilities of democratic self-organisation and self-management from below.
Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility provides a wide-ranging overview of Ward’s earliest journalism and his later work, including seminal essays and extracts from his most important books.
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Anarchism, Education, philosophy, Social sciences, philosophy, Housing, Social policy, HistoryPeople
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Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader
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Table of Contents
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
SECTION ONE: LIFE, POLITICS AND JOURNALISM
1. Talking Anarchy: Colin Ward in Conversation with David Goodway
2. The State
3. Allied Military Government
4. Political Use of Relief
5. Contrary to Our Interests
6. The Unwritten Handbook
7. People and Ideas Takes a Last Look Round at the 50s
8. Adventure Playground: A Parable of Anarchy
9. Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward Reappraises the Titmuss Book That Gave New Meaning to the Expression “Blood Bank”
10. Anarchism as a Theory of Organization
SECTION TWO: CULTURE, PLACE AND HOUSING
1. Plotlands: The Unauthorised Version
2. The People Act: The Postwar Squatters’ Movement
3. The Do-It-Yourself New Town
4. Fiction, Non-Fiction and Reference
5. Self-Help in Urban Renewal
6. Fringe Benefits: Squatters in Rural Norfolk Have a Message…
7. The Land is Whose?
8. Self-Help and Mutual Aid: The Stolen Vocabulary
9. High Density Life
SECTION THREE: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND CREATIVITY
1. The Future of the Design Professions
2. Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward is Amazed at Getting Out of the Labyrinth
3. Alternatives in Architecture
4. Walter Segal—Community Architect
5. Preface to John F.C. Turner’s Housing By People
6. Chartres: The Making of a Miracle
7. How the Child Sees the City
8. Antiquarians, Explorers, Neophiliacs
9. The Anarchist House
SECTION FOUR: WORK, LEISURE, EDUCATION AND PLAY
1. The Factory We Never Had
2. In the Sandbox of the City
3. Pioneer Camps
4. Images of Childhood in Old Postcards
5. Whose Environment?
6. The Anarchists and Schools
7. Towards a Poor School
8. Fringe Benefits: Colin Ward is alarmed as the City of London spreads over Spitalfields
SECTION FIVE: INFLUENCES AND ALTERNATIVES
1. Anarchy and a Plausible Future
2. Martin Buber (1878–1965)
3. The Welfare Road We Failed to Take
4. Green Cities
5. Anarchist Sociology of Federalism
6. Deadsville Revisited
7. An Anarchist Approach to Urban Planning
8. A Peopled Landscape
NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337).
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