Academic Publications

The following list contains links to all my publications, including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, book reviews and blogs.

Most of the links are to full texts but where published versions are not available, please contact me and I will be happy to send an author copy.

  • Books

  • DISASTER ANARCHY: MUTUAL AID AND RADICAL ACTION.

    2022. London: Pluto.

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  • CORONAVIRUS, CLASS AND MUTUAL AID IN THE UK.

    Co-authored with John Preston. 2020 London: Palgrave.

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  • UTOPIAN POLITICS: CITIZENSHIP & PRACTICE.

    2012. London and New York: Routledge.

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  • Academic Articles

  • INTRODUCTION TO SYMPOSIUM LIVING IN THE END TIMES.

    2021, Atasoy, Emrah, Nora Castle, Heather Alberro, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott SFRA Review 51.2 (Spring 2021): 144-149.

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  • ROBOTOPIAS: MAPPING UTOPIAN PERSPECTIVES ON NEW INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY.

    2020, With Andrew Robinson. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, DOI 10.1108/IJSSP-01-2020-0004.

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  • SOMATIC PEDAGOGIES: CRITIQUING AND RESISTING THE AFFECTIVE DISCOURSE OF THE NEOLIBERAL STATE FROM AN EMBODIED ANARCHIST PERSPECTIVE.

    2016. ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 16(4): 121-142.

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  • FOR A REVIVAL OF FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING: HORIZONTAL TRANSFORMATION OF EPISTEMOLOGIES AND TRANSGRESSION OF NEOLIBERAL TIMESPACE

    2016, with Andrew Robinson. Gender and Education, 28(3): 343-358.

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  • FUTURE(S) PERFECT: UCHRONIAN MAPPING AS A RESEARCH AND VISUALISATION TOOL IN THE ‘FRINGES’ OF THE OLYMPIC PARK

    2016, with Mara Fererri and Andreas Lang. Living Maps Review 1(1).

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  • TOWARD A CRITICAL UTOPIAN AND PEDAGOGICAL METHODOLOGY

    2013. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 35:4, pp. 256-276

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  • TRANSGRESSING URBAN UTOPIANISM: AUTONOMY AND ACTIVE DESIRE

    2012. Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography, 94 (2): 89-106.

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  • Book Chapters

  • "GRATITUDE FOR A UTOPIAN FRIENDSHIP,” RAFAELLA BACCOLINI AND LYMAN TOWER SARGENT (Eds.) TRANSGRESSIVE UTOPIANISM ESSAYS IN HONOR OF LUCY SARGISSON ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT

    2021. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 215-220.

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  • "AFTERWORD" IN MARIE LOUISE BERNERI, JOURNEY THROUGH UTOPIA

    2019. Oakland, CA: PM Press

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  • “THE UTOPIAN MODEL OF SOCIAL CHANGE”

    2018. Helena Lugo (ed.) A Return to the Island, Nowhere.

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  • “UTOPIAN AND INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES”

    2018. Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, Eds. Matthew Adams and Carl Levy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 491-510.

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  • “FROM THE UNLEARNED UN-MAN TO A PEDAGOGY WITHOUT MOULDING: STIRNER, CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING AND THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE”

    2017, with Andrew Robinson. in Robert Haworth and John Elmore (Eds.) Out of the Ruins: The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces, Oakland: PM Press, pp. 56-73

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  • “MONSTERS TAKE TO THE STREETS! MONSTROUS STREET-ART AS PEDAGOGY OF RESISTANCE TO POST-OLYMPIC REGENERATION IN HACKNEY WICK?”

    2016. in László Munteán and Hans Christian Post (eds.) Landscapes of Monstrosity. Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press. pp. 23-38

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  • “THE NON-LINEAR FUTURE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESENTS: TEMPORAL UTOPIANISM AND IMMANENT REVOLUTION.”

    2012. in Cecile Lawrence, Natalie Churn and Christian Garland (Eds.), Movements in Time, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar. pp. 241-254.

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  • Radical Media, Journalism and Blogs

  • "POST-PANDEMIC, MUTUAL AID COULD BE TRANSFORMATIVE,”

    Preston, J. and Firth, R. interviewed by Rox Middleton. 2021. The Morning Star

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  • "THE PANDEMIC IS THE NEW FRONTLINE IN THE WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS,”

    Preston, J. and Firth, R. interviewed by Rox Middleton. 2021. The Big Issue

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  • "A PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTION IN PRODUCTION,”

    2020. Chatty Factories Project Blog

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  • "RESEARCH IN THE TIME OF A PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS, CLASS ANDMUTUAL AID IN THE UK,”

    Firth, R. and Preston, J. [Interview] 2020. Springer Nature

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  • “MISUNDERSTANDING UTOPIA,”

    2020. Dope Magazine


  • “ANARCHIST UTOPIAS AND INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES AS EXPERIMENTAL URBANISM,”

    2019. Eco-Communities in an Urban Future Blog

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  • “ANARCHISM AND UTOPIANISM.”

    2018. Progress in Political Economy (PPE), July 17 2018

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  • “CRITICAL CARTOGRAPHY.”

    2015. The Occupied Times of London, Issue 27: Discipline/States/Borders, p. 9.

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  • “CRITICAL CARTOGRAPHY AS ANARCHIST PEDAGOGY? IDEAS FOR PRAXIS INSPIRED BY THE 56A INFOSHOP MAP ARCHIVE.”

    2014. Interface: A journal by and for Social Movements 6: 1 special issue on pedagogy and social movements, pp. 156-184

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  • Reviews

  • NANGWAYA, AJAMU, AND MICHAEL TRUSCELLO (EDS), WHY DON’T THE POOR RISE UP?: ORGANIZING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RESISTANCE AK PRESS, 2017 [REVIEW]

    Anarchist Studies, 27.1: 121-123.

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  • CHING-IN CHEN, JAI DULANI & LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASHINA (EDS.), THE REVOLUTION STARTS AT HOME: CONFRONTING INTIMATE VIOLENCE WITHIN ACTIVIST COMMUNITIES. AK PRESS 2011 [REVIEW]

    Anarchist Studies, 25.2.

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  • MAPS AND THE 21ST CENTURY: DRAWING THE LINE [REVIEW]

    Living Maps Review 2.

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