Essay #93: Alexander Sawatsky, ‘Anarchist Perspectives for Social Work Practice: Disrupting Oppressive Systems’
Anarchist Essays25 Marras 2024

Essay #93: Alexander Sawatsky, ‘Anarchist Perspectives for Social Work Practice: Disrupting Oppressive Systems’

In this essay, Alexander Sawatsky talks about his recent book, Anarchist perspectives for social work: Disrupting oppressive systems. Along with a summary of the main topics and themes, he describes how he arrived at the idea of writing this book as well as his motivation to work towards an anarchist informed social work practice.

Alexander teaches and is chair of the social work program at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where he lives with his partner, Wendi and his two children, Marianne and Lukas. His most recent publications are the following:

Sawatsky, A. (2023) What is at the centre? Faith, social work & anarchism, Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 42:4, 477-495.

Sawatsky, A. (2024). Anarchism & social work. Critical Social Work. Vol. 25, No. 1.

Sawatsky, A. (2024) Anarchist Perspectives for Social Work: Disrupting Oppressive Systems. Oxford University Press.

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Essay #105: Javier Sethness Castro, ‘From Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism’

Essay #105: Javier Sethness Castro, ‘From Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism’

In this reading from Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism (2025), Javier Sethness Castro reflects on Leo Tolstoy and the Russo-Ukrainian War. While praising the relevanc...

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Essay #104: Theresa Warburton, ‘Other Worlds Here: Embracing Story as Place-Based Practice in Anarchist Social Movements’

Essay #104: Theresa Warburton, ‘Other Worlds Here: Embracing Story as Place-Based Practice in Anarchist Social Movements’

In this essay, Theresa Warburton talks about the power of story for building a place-based method in anarchist organizing. Building on their own experiences and the works of Indigenous scholars, Warbu...

15 Syys 202520min

Essay #103: Iain McIntyre & Owen Clayton, ‘Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life: T-Bone Slim and the Industrial Workers of the World’

Essay #103: Iain McIntyre & Owen Clayton, ‘Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life: T-Bone Slim and the Industrial Workers of the World’

This essay is based on the introductory chapter from a collection edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre entitled The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim (University of Minnesota Press,...

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Essay #102: Graham McGeoch, ‘Anarchism, Orthodoxy, and Latin America’

Essay #102: Graham McGeoch, ‘Anarchism, Orthodoxy, and Latin America’

In this essay, Graham McGeoch speaks about his research of Orthodox Christian influences on Anarchism in Latin America. A fuller version of the research was published in the edited volume, Orthodoxy a...

21 Huhti 202519min

Essay #101: Jesse Spafford, ‘The Anarchist Case Against Private Property’

Essay #101: Jesse Spafford, ‘The Anarchist Case Against Private Property’

In this essay, Jesse Spafford argues that plausible libertarian premises support the classical anarchist conclusion that no one has any moral property rights over land or resources. Drawing on the arg...

7 Huhti 202514min

Essay #100: Ruth Kinna, ‘Mutual Aid: What It Is and What It Is Not’

Essay #100: Ruth Kinna, ‘Mutual Aid: What It Is and What It Is Not’

This essay is adapted from Jim Donaghey's excellent collection, Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis . It discusses some of the applications of 'mutual aid'...

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Essay #99: Keith Jacobs, ‘The Writings of Colin Ward and the Legacy of Anarchism for Housing Studies’

Essay #99: Keith Jacobs, ‘The Writings of Colin Ward and the Legacy of Anarchism for Housing Studies’

In this essay Keith Jacobs considers the relevance of Colin Ward’s work for addressing contemporary housing challenges. It is claimed that Ward’s writings on housing offer both a trenchant critique of...

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Essay #98: Rhiannon Firth, ‘Afterword to Fight for a New Normal: Anarchism and Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis’

Essay #98: Rhiannon Firth, ‘Afterword to Fight for a New Normal: Anarchism and Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis’

In this essay, Rhiannon provides an Afterword summarizing some of the key themes in a recently published volume of collected essays edited by Jim Donaghey titled Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and ...

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