project

Constitutionalising Anarchy: an anarchist constitutional politics for the 21st century

1 September 2023 - 31 July 2024

PI/s in Exeter: Dr Alex Prichard

Research partners: Ruth Kinna, Loughborough

Funding awarded: £ 75,000

Sponsor(s): Independent Social Research Foundation, Mid-Career Fellowship

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Constitutionalising Anarchy: an anarchist constitutional politics for the 21st century

About the research

This fellowship will enable Prichard and Kinna to complete a monograph on anarchist constitutional politics. Their research reveals how anarchists constitutionalise: how and why they produce declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures that shape the groups through which they act to change the world. The core aim is to theorise constitutional orders in anarchy – a central preoccupation for mainstream IR theory – but from an anarchist point of view.