In Anarchism and Utopianism, the first ever collection of original essays devoted to an assessment of the relationship between these two important traditions, we aim to fill a significant gap in the scholarly literature and to encourage further reflection on the as yet untapped revolutionary potential of anarchist utopianism. Far from being merely of literary or historical interest, related elements of both the anarchist and utopian traditions have continued to inspire and inform a range of contemporary radical social movements, including global anti-capitalism, ecologism, feminism, pacifism, post-colonialism, and black, gay, and indigenous liberation. Le Guin published in 1974 the first anarchist utopia. Herbert Read, for example, vigorously defended libertarian utopian thinking in his book Anarchy and Order, Paul Goodman consistently championed a pragmatic form of utopianism that had a tremendous influence on the counter-culture of the 1960s, and Ursula K. On the other hand, a number of more contemporary anarchist utopian writers have explicitly questioned the mutual exclusivity of anarchism and utopianism.

Likewise, most utopian authors have tended to emulate the state-centred utopian model propagated by Plato and More rather than the more libertarian example of de Foigny, Diderot, and Morris. On the one hand, many classical anarchist thinkers such as Bakunin and Kropotkin repeatedly emphasised the 'scientific' character of their social philosophy in an effort to distance themselves from the charge of utopianism. The history of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism is marked by ambivalence.

We extend this call for papers to authors from all disciplines interested in exploring the relationship between anarchism and utopianism. Call for Papers for a proposed edited collection of essays on: Anarchism and Utopianism

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