Essay #59: DaN Mckee, ‘Anarchist: Subverting the System from Within’
Anarchist Essays17 Heinä 2023

Essay #59: DaN Mckee, ‘Anarchist: Subverting the System from Within’

In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher, DaN McKee reflects on his personal experiences with the inner conflict of being an anarchist teacher working within a school-system built on discipline and control. He looks back on his misguided attempts to subvert such systems through strict adherence to their absurd rules, and the more successful moments of subversion that came when he restored humanity and horizontalism to his classroom.

DaN McKee received his PhD from Cardiff University in 2009 and is currently Head of Theology and Philosophy at a secondary school in the West Midlands. Alongside Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher: A Memoir of Struggle, Grief, Philosophy and Hope (out now on Earth Island), his recent publications include Authentic Democracy: An Ethical Justification of Anarchism and ‘Character Flaws – An Anarchist Critique of Character Education in England’s Secondary Schools’ in Anarchist Studies. His forthcoming paper, ‘An Error of Punishment Defences in the Context of Schooling’ will be published in the Journal of Philosophy of Education soon. DaN also produces music under the name of Strangely Shaped By Fathers and runs the websites www.philosophyunleashed.com and www.everythingdanmckee.com

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Essay #113: Kirwin Shaffer, ‘Hispanic Anarchism: The Forging of a Transnational Anarchist Latinidad’

Essay #113: Kirwin Shaffer, ‘Hispanic Anarchism: The Forging of a Transnational Anarchist Latinidad’

In this essay, Kirwin Shaffer explores the creation of an anarchist ethnic identity (an anarchist Latinidad) among Spanish-speaking anarchists in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. This identit...

19 Tammi 16min

Essay #112: Robert T.F. Downes, ‘Green Anarchy and Red Praxis’

Essay #112: Robert T.F. Downes, ‘Green Anarchy and Red Praxis’

In this essay, Robert T.F. Downes examines how the eco-anarchist philosophy of social ecology and the pluriverse of Indigenous political thought come together in anarcho-Indigenous solidarities, from ...

5 Tammi 20min

Essay #111: Livia K. Stone, ‘Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management’

Essay #111: Livia K. Stone, ‘Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management’

In this essay, Livia K. Stone discusses the origins of the concept of autogestion/self-management, generally associated with anarcho-syndicalism. Often described as emerging from Yugoslavia in the 195...

22 Joulu 202520min

Essay #110: Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, ‘Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate?’

Essay #110: Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, ‘Creating an Anarchist Community: How can Students from a Neoliberal University Participate?’

In this essay, Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh reflects on an experience of creating a microcosm of an anarchist community in a Yucatecan Maya Village in Mexico. The experience involved women students traine...

8 Joulu 202533min

Essay #109: Jason Garner, ‘Updating Anarchism’

Essay #109: Jason Garner, ‘Updating Anarchism’

In this essay, Jason Garner, looks at the debate between anarchists in countries on both side of the Atlantic about the need, or not, to revise anarchist tactics in the light of the end of the postwar...

24 Marras 202519min

Essay #108: Steve Emery & Dai O’Brien, ‘L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist’

Essay #108: Steve Emery & Dai O’Brien, ‘L.A. Motler: A Deaf Anarchist’

In this essay, Steve Emery and Dai O'Brien discuss the life and politics of a deaf anarchist communist, Leonard A. Motler. Steve and Dai explain his significance to both the anarchist movement in the ...

10 Marras 202517min

Essay #107: Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, & Charles W., ‘Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid’

Essay #107: Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, & Charles W., ‘Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on Organizing and Mutual Aid’

In this essay, Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, and Charles W. draw distinctions and connections between two important aspects of social movements: organizing and mutual aid. They argue that practicing...

27 Loka 202526min

Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’

Essay #106: Josie Holland, ‘Utopian Desires of Queer Anarchism’

In this essay, Josie Holland breaks down key characteristics of queer anarchism and its connection to anarchist principles of prefiguration and revolutionary desire. They conclude with an invitation t...

13 Loka 202516min

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