Anarchisms in Asia and Beyond

This course examines the transnational legacy of anarchist thought and action as it emerged in various places in Asia from the 19 th century onward. We will explore anarchism as a worldly phenomenon rather than an import from ‘the West’ – paying special attention to how it emerged out of connections between aristocrats, commoners, colonial bureaucrats, plantation workers, first-wave feminists, and ethnographers in Japan, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, and elsewhere. Working with primary source materials will give you a taste of what it is like to be a scholar of transnational intellectual history – a detective and storyteller in one.