• Essay #79: Sean Scalmer, ‘Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept’

  • Apr 22 2024
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Essay #79: Sean Scalmer, ‘Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept’

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  • This essay examines the rise of 'direct action' as a key concept in anarchist and radical politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the transnational arguments, texts and networks that made this possible.

    Sean Scalmer is a Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. This essay is a greatly edited version of a recent article: 'Direct Action: Invention of a Transnational Concept', International Review of Social History, vol. 68, no. 3, December 2023, pp.357-87. (An open access version is here).The research and the essay forms part of a research project on 'Direct Action and Democracy: Utopia, Experience, Threat', funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

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