Professor Ruth Kinna

Mid-Career Fellow 2023-24

Constitutionalising Anarchy: an Anarchist Constitutional Politics for the 21st Century

With Dr Alex Prichard

Typically, anarchy is considered the opposite of a constitutional order. This project complicates that picture. We reveal how anarchists constitutionalise, in other words, how and why they develop declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures within anarchist groups to transform in the world in which they act. The research has a theoretical, empirical and practical/normative element.

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Biography

Ruth Kinna is a political theorist and historian of ideas at Loughborough University. She is co-founder and member of the Anarchism Research Group and co-editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. She is the author of Peter Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition (Edinburgh, 2016) and The Government of No One (Pelican, 2019). Her most recent book, Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organising (PM Press 2022), is based on research conducted with Alex Prichard on constitutionalising anarchy https://anarchyrules.info/  

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