Famiglia e scuola sono sempre stati considerati i luoghi per eccellenza dove bambini e bambine, ragazzi e ragazze, acquisiscono un'educazione. Colin Ward decide invece di esplorare un particolare aspetto dell'educazione che prescinde da queste istituzioni: l'incidentalità. Ecco allora che le strade urbane, i prati, i boschi, gli spazi destinati al gioco, gli scuolabus, i bagni scolastici, i negozi e le botteghe artigiane si trasformano in luoghi vitali capaci di offrire opportunità educati...

The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organise...

The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism.Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions and the solutions anarchists offer so...

Colin Ward spent much of the 1970s and 1980s on the terraces of football grounds around the country, and following England across the continent. It was a time when passionate support of your team did not mean wearing the team shirt and subscribing to your club's TV station. Instead, it often meant having to defend your part of the stadium against attacks from opposition fans, confrontations with the police, and some decidedly hair-raising encounters.Although, post-Hillsborough, thi...

Throughout the 70s and early 80s English football hooligans wreaked havoc throughout England and Europe until the authorities decided that enough was enough. Chelsea supporters were targeted, and one man in particular, Steve 'Hickey' Hickmott, was deemed to be public enemy number one and arrested. This explosive story, told in Steve's own words, reveals the humour, camaraderie and escapades of life on the terraces and charts his fight for justice in the face of a system heavily biased agai...

What do anarchists want? It seems easier to classify them by what they don't want, namely, the organizations of the State, and to identify them with rioting and protest rather than with any coherent ideology. But with demonstrations like those against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund being blamed on anarchists, it is clear that an explanation of what they do stand for is long overdue.Colin Ward provides answers to these questions by considering anarchism from a va...

Con il peculiare sguardo anarchico che gli è proprio, Colin Ward, per oltre mezzo secolo, ha guardato alla società in modo non convenzionale cercando – negli interstizi, nelle crepe, negli spazi lasciati liberi dalle istituzioni – le espressioni altrimenti poco visibili di quell'inesauribile resistenza popolare all'omologazione basata su una creatività solidale e su un uso alternativo dello spazio e delle risorse. Un uso alternativo ai prevalenti modelli gerarchici e burocratici, così come...

Colin Ward was an anarchist, a writer, an educator and an environmentalist. His books include "Anarchy in Action" and many others, primarily on social history, childhood, housing and the informal landscape. His wideranging interests included New Towns, allotments, transport and the British holiday camp. Colin Ward was the foundereditor of "Anarchy" and the "Bulletin of Environmental Education", and was for many years a contributing editor to "Freedom". Colin Ward made anarchism respectable...

Of all political views, anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New...

L'acqua è una risorsa primaria per l'esistenza umana, un bene comune che appartiene a tutti. Eppure, dalla crescente tendenza alla privatizzazione al dislocamento di milioni di persone per la costruzione di enormi dighe, l'acqua è sempre di più una merce controllata non dalle comunità locali ma da Stati centralizzati e da imperi finanziari multinazionali. A partire da queste premesse, Ward analizza l'ineguale distribuzione idrica su scala mondiale, evidenziando come l'acqua per il consumo ...

"Il mio nome è Legione perché siamo molti": è online il numero 80 della Rivista! ⚡️ Uno dei fili conduttori di questo numero è il tema delle migrazioni, questione vasta che va compresa nella sua complessità, guardando al contempo ai nuovi immigrati e alle seconde e terze generazioni, alle politiche e ai movimenti dal basso. Dedichiamo il numero a Willy Monteiro Duarte, ucciso a Colleferro nella notte tra il 5 e il 6 settembre. Apriamo il numero con un saggio fondamentale di Wolfgang Sac...

«Las reflexiones de Ward sitúan la experiencia directa, personal y corporal, en la base de cada reflexión sobre la arquitectura. Observa el hábitat humano desde la perspectiva de lo cotidiano: una arquitectura de carne y hueso que se aleja de codificaciones disciplinarias.»Colin Ward, uno de los principales pensadores anarquistas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, fue también un observador incansable de la historia social de la planificación y la vida urbanas: dedicó...