Dr Alex Prichard

Mid-Career Fellow 2023-24

Constitutionalising Anarchy: an Anarchist Constitutional Politics for the 21st Century

With Professor Ruth Kinna

Typically, anarchy is considered the opposite of a constitutional order. This project complicates that picture. We reveal how anarchists constitutionalise, in other words, how and why they develop declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures within anarchist groups to transform in the world in which they act. The research has a theoretical, empirical and practical/normative element.

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Biography

Alex Prichard is Associate Professor of International Political Theory at the University of Exeter. He teaches in International Relations and anarchist political though, and has published widely on how anarchists conceptualise world order. His most recent books are Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2022), Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organising (PM Press 2022), and a new edited translation of Proudhon’s (1861) War and Peace. On the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of Peoples (AK Press, 2022).

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