James Horrox

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Title
Mr.
Occupation
Researcher: PhD
Discipline(s)
Politics, Philosophy, Sociology
University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Department
Department of Politics and Philosophy
Country
United Kingdom
Town / City
Manchester
Previous Universities
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, BA (Hons.) Politics
my website
http://www.jameshorrox.wordpress.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Intentional communities, prefigurative politics, participatory governance, workplace democracy, utopianism, Israel studies

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My Publications

A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement, Oakland: AK Press, 2009

“Socialism and the Soul of Man: Gustav Landauer's Wilde Translations”, Oscholars special issue on 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism', Cambridge (forthcoming, 2010)

"Anarquia e Utopia: A Filosofia Mística de Gustav Landauer e Agostinho da Silva”, Nova Águia: Revista de Cultura para o Século XXI, Lisboa, Zéfiro, 1º semestre de 2009, nº 3, 114

“Reinventing Resistance: Constructive Activism in Gustav Landauer’s Social Thought”, New Perspectives on Anarchism. Ed. Nathan Jun & Shane Wahl. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.

“Bernard Lazare”, International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009

“Abraham Frumkin”, International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009

“Manya Shochat” International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009

Conference Papers & Invited Lectures

Gustav Landauer's Wilde Translations, 15th Annual Conference:
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan
University, March 29-31 2010

Fields, Factories and Workshops: Anarchism and the Kibbutz
Movement
, Leeds University Institute for Jewish Studies, April 30
2009

Utopia in the Time of Tribes, 14th Annual Conference:
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan
University, April 15-17 2009

Radical histories/Alternative Futures: Anarchism, Zionism and the
Kibbutz,
Perspectives on the Past: Sixth Annual Postgraduate
Conference in History and Classics, University of Manchester, March
26-27 2009

Anarchism and the Kibbutz Movement, Jewdas: Rootless
Cosmopolitan Yeshiva, London, March 5 2009

Remembering Utopia: Anarchist Ideals in the Inception of the
Kvutza and Kibbutz
, 9th Annual Conference: Renewing the Anarchist
Tradition, Montpelier, Vermont, November 7-9 2008

Constructive Activism in Gustav Landauer’s Social Thought,
1st Anarchist Studies Network Conference, Loughborough University,
September 4-6 2008

Constructive Activism in Gustav Landauer’s Social Thought,
13th Annual Conference: Alternative Futures and Popular Protest,
Manchester Metropolitan University, March 17-19 2008

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Main Influences
Gustav Landauer, Martin Buber, Peter Kropotkin, Marc Augé, P.B. Shelley, Michel Maffesoli, Colin Ward, Gilles Deleuze, Hakim Bey, A.D. Gordon, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Étienne de La Boétie, Paul Émile de Puydt
Favourite Books
Aufruf zum Sozialismus (Gustav Landauer), Paths in Utopia (Martin Buber)

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