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{{Short description|Israeli anarchist theorist and activist}}
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'''Uri Gordon''' (born August 30, 1976 in [[Israel]]) is an [[Anarchism|anarchist]] theorist and activist. He is editor of [[Freedom (British newspaper)|''Freedom'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://freedomnews.org.uk/about/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Freedom News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=camas>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sgAB74HjFE |title=The No State Solution: A Dialogue with Palestinian Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli Uri Gordon |date=2024-02-22 |publisher=Camas Books & Infoshop |access-date=2024-06-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Gordon is considered "one of the leading theorists of anarchist movement politics."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kinna |first1=Ruth |last2=Prichard |first2=Alex |date=2019-09-02 |title=Anarchism and non-domination |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2019.1633100 |journal=Journal of Political Ideologies |language=en |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=221–240 |doi=10.1080/13569317.2019.1633100 |issn=1356-9317|hdl=10871/30200 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> He has lived in Israel and [[Great Britain]] and worked with organizations including [[Indymedia]], [[Peoples' Global Action|Peoples Global Action]], and [[Anarchists Against the Wall]].


== Scholarship ==
'''Uri Gordon''' ({{lang-he|אורי גורדון}}; born August 30, 1976) is an [[Israel]]i [[anarchist]] political theorist, activist and journalist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview12 |last=Poole |first=Steven |authorlink=Steven Poole |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 22, 2008 |title=Rock, race and riots|accessdate=2008-11-11}}</ref>
Gordon received his doctorate in political theory from [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] in 2005.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Green |first=David B. |date=2008-11-24 |title=A conversation with Uri Gordon |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2008-11-24/ty-article/a-conversation-with-uri-gordon/0000017f-f5e4-d044-adff-f7fd18240000 |access-date=2024-06-06 |work=Haaretz |language=en}}</ref> His dissertation formed the basis of his book [[Anarchy Alive!|''Anarchy Alive! Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory'']], published by [[Pluto Press]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Poole |first=Steven |date=2008-03-22 |title=Rock, race and riots |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview12 |access-date=2024-06-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Gordon has taught at [[Loughborough University]] and at the [[Arava Institute for Environmental Studies]] in [[Ketura, Israel|Ketura]], a [[Kibbutz]] north of [[Eilat]].<ref name=":0" />
He is a teaching fellow at [[Durham University]],<ref>https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/staff/profile/?id=17440</ref> and formerly Lecturer at the [[University of Nottingham]] and [[Loughborough University]] in the [[UK]] and at the [[Arava Institute for Environmental Studies]] in [[Ketura, Israel]].<ref name=haaretz>{{cite news|first=Uri |last=Gordon |author2=Lucy Michaels |url=http://www.haaretz.com/food-troubles-are-here-to-stay-1.245149 |date= May 1, 2008 |work=[[Haaretz]] |accessdate=2008-11-14 |title=Food Troubles Are Here to Stay}}</ref> One of several anarchist theorists to come of age during the [[anti-globalization movement]] at the turn of the 21st century,<ref name=negations>{{cite web|title=The Past, the Future, and Around the World: Four New Books about Anarchism |date=August 23, 2007 | last=Morse |first=Chuck |work=negations |authorlink=Chuck W. Morse|accessdate=2008-11-11|url=http://www.negations.net/the-past-the-future-and-around-the-world-four-new-books-about-anarchism/}}</ref> his work on contemporary anarchism has been translated into 13 languages.<ref>{{cite journal|accessdate=2008-11-15|title=After the war|first=Uri |last=Gordon |year=2006 |volume=14 |issue=2 |journal=[[Anarchist Studies]] |url=http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/archive/vol14no2ed.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Israeli anarchism: statist dilemmas and the dynamics of joint struggle|first=Uri |last=Gordon |year=2006 |volume=15 |issue=1 |journal=Anarchist Studies}}</ref>


His work has been cited in over 1,300 academic publications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Uri Gordon |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7FrxvqoAAAAJ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> Gordon is editor of the book series Contemporary Anarchist Studies at [[Manchester University Press]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Contemporary Anarchist Studies |url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/contemporary-anarchist-studies/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Manchester University Press |language=en-US}}</ref> Besides his scholarly work, Gordon has contributed to [[Haaretz]] and the [[The Jerusalem Post|Jerusalem Post]].<ref name=":0" />
Gordon has worked with radical groups and movements including [[Indymedia]], [[Peoples' Global Action]], and [[Anarchists Against the Wall]]. Active primarily in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and his native Israel, Gordon has participated in [[Anti-globalization_movement|protest]]s at international summits across Europe,<ref name=newint>{{cite journal|url=http://www.newint.org/columns/media/books/2008/07/01/anarchy-alive/|title=Anarchy Alive! |date=July 2008|issue=413 |first=Richard |last=Swift |journal=[[New Internationalist]]|accessdate=2008-11-11}}</ref> and played a part in the [[2011 Israeli social justice protests]]. His first book ''[[Anarchy Alive!]]'', was based on his PhD research at [[Oxford University]].<ref name=ajoda>{{cite journal |url=http://www.anarchymag.org/node/45 |authorlink=Lawrence Jarach |last=Jarach |first=Lawrence |title=An Academic Shines |journal=[[Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed]] |accessdate=2008-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201115733/http://anarchymag.org/node/45 |archive-date=2008-12-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has recently published critiques of prefigurative politics, nationalism and multiculturalism, and edited a collection of writings by activists in [[Anarchists Against the Wall]].


== Selected works ==
== Activism ==
Uri Gordon first became involved in the environmental movement, and now advocates for a new, heterogeneous, bioregional, feminist, and action-oriented grassroots anarchism.<ref name=":0" /> He considers anarchism to be an "ideology of survival."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anarchy Alive / Uri Gordon talks with Tasos Sagris – Void Network |url=https://voidnetwork.gr/2023/06/09/anarchy-alive-uri-gordon-talks-with-tasos-sagris/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=voidnetwork.gr}}</ref> He further describes anarchism as prefigurative action by which adherents do not wait for major societal change to begin living according to their ideals of horizontal and cooperative relationships.<ref name=":0" />


As a member of Anarchists Against the Wall, he has been a prominent member of the Israeli radical left, active in supporting Palestinian efforts to dismantle the "colonial infrastructure" of segregation barriers throughout the region.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyb5nugqLtE |title=Fredy Perlman, International Events, and Anarchist Practice with Uri Gordon |date=2022-11-11 |last=Cyber Dandy |access-date=2024-06-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrows-Friedman |first=Nora |date=2014-02-14 |title="We won't turn our backs": Palestinian activists determined to remain in Ein Hijleh |url=https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/we-wont-turn-our-backs-palestinian-activists-determined-remain-ein |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=The Electronic Intifada |language=en}}</ref> Recently, in a discussion with [[Mohammed Bamyeh]] on the "No State Solution," he has argued for "modes of a multicultural existence and even radical democracy that are not fundamentally opposed to religious practice or tradition, that are moving... towards equality."<ref name=camas/> He also notes that the first necessity is an end to the [[Gaza humanitarian crisis (2023–present)|current violence]] in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]].
*''The Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics.'' Edited with Ruth Kinna. London: [[Routledge]] (2019). {{ISBN| 978-1-13866-542-2}}

*''Israeli Anarchists: Mobilisation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict''. Patras: Opportuna (2016).
== Publications ==
*''Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct action and solidarity with the Palestinian popular struggle.'' Edited with Ohal Grietzer. Oakland: [[AK Press]] (2013). {{ISBN|978-1-84935-114-0}}

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*''[[Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory]]''. London: [[Pluto Press]] (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-7453-2683-2}}
* Gordon, Uri, and Ohal Grietzer. 2013. ''Anarchists against the Wall : Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle''. Edinburgh: [[AK Press]].<ref>Reviews of ''Anarchists against the Wall'':

* Finkel, David (2014), ''[[Fifth Estate (periodical)|Fifth Estate]]'', [https://fifthestate.anarchistlibraries.net/library/391-springsummer-2014-anarchists-wall]
* Barker, Adam (2015), "No walls, no borders: confronting imperialism and colonialism in Israel and Canada", ''[[Social Movement Studies]]'', {{doi|10.1080/14742837.2015.1070340}}
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* Gordon, Uri. 2008. ''[[Anarchy Alive!|Anarchy Alive! : Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory]]''. London: [[Pluto Press]].<ref>Reviews of ''Anarchy alive!'':

* Giorel Curran (2008), ''[[Australian Journal of International Affairs]]'', {{doi|10.1080/10357710802286858}}
* Alex Prichard (2008), ''[[Anarchist Studies]]'', {{ProQuest|211029046}}
* Adam Barker (2009), ''[[WorkingUSA]]'', {{doi|10.1111/j.1743-4580.2009.00256.x}}
* David Bell (2012), ''[[Capital & Class]]'', {{doi|10.1177/0309816811432878i}}
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== References ==
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==External links==
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*[https://durham.academia.edu/UriGordon/ Gordon's publications]
*{{Worldcat id|id=lccn-nr2006-16059}}
*[http://raforum.info/mot.php3?id_mot=3024&lang=en Uri Gordon at R.A. Forum]
*[http://ephemer.al.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gd216/uri/ Anarchism and Political Theory: Contemporary Problems], Gordon's PhD thesis

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Latest revision as of 12:02, 28 June 2024

Uri Gordon
אורי גורדון
Image of a man with brown hair and grey beard smiling in front of a wall with many colourful activism posters
Gordon in 2023
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Israel
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forAnarchist theory
Notable workAnarchy Alive! 

Uri Gordon (born August 30, 1976 in Israel) is an anarchist theorist and activist. He is editor of Freedom.[1][2] Gordon is considered "one of the leading theorists of anarchist movement politics."[3] He has lived in Israel and Great Britain and worked with organizations including Indymedia, Peoples Global Action, and Anarchists Against the Wall.

Scholarship[edit]

Gordon received his doctorate in political theory from Oxford University in 2005.[4] His dissertation formed the basis of his book Anarchy Alive! Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory, published by Pluto Press.[5] Gordon has taught at Loughborough University and at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Ketura, a Kibbutz north of Eilat.[4]

His work has been cited in over 1,300 academic publications.[6] Gordon is editor of the book series Contemporary Anarchist Studies at Manchester University Press.[7] Besides his scholarly work, Gordon has contributed to Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post.[4]

Activism[edit]

Uri Gordon first became involved in the environmental movement, and now advocates for a new, heterogeneous, bioregional, feminist, and action-oriented grassroots anarchism.[4] He considers anarchism to be an "ideology of survival."[8] He further describes anarchism as prefigurative action by which adherents do not wait for major societal change to begin living according to their ideals of horizontal and cooperative relationships.[4]

As a member of Anarchists Against the Wall, he has been a prominent member of the Israeli radical left, active in supporting Palestinian efforts to dismantle the "colonial infrastructure" of segregation barriers throughout the region.[9][10] Recently, in a discussion with Mohammed Bamyeh on the "No State Solution," he has argued for "modes of a multicultural existence and even radical democracy that are not fundamentally opposed to religious practice or tradition, that are moving... towards equality."[2] He also notes that the first necessity is an end to the current violence in Gaza.

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "About". Freedom News. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  2. ^ a b The No State Solution: A Dialogue with Palestinian Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli Uri Gordon. Camas Books & Infoshop. 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-06-06 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Kinna, Ruth; Prichard, Alex (2019-09-02). "Anarchism and non-domination". Journal of Political Ideologies. 24 (3): 221–240. doi:10.1080/13569317.2019.1633100. hdl:10871/30200. ISSN 1356-9317.
  4. ^ a b c d e Green, David B. (2008-11-24). "A conversation with Uri Gordon". Haaretz. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  5. ^ Poole, Steven (2008-03-22). "Rock, race and riots". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  6. ^ "Uri Gordon". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  7. ^ "Contemporary Anarchist Studies". Manchester University Press. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  8. ^ "Anarchy Alive / Uri Gordon talks with Tasos Sagris – Void Network". voidnetwork.gr. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  9. ^ Cyber Dandy (2022-11-11). Fredy Perlman, International Events, and Anarchist Practice with Uri Gordon. Retrieved 2024-06-06 – via YouTube.
  10. ^ Barrows-Friedman, Nora (2014-02-14). ""We won't turn our backs": Palestinian activists determined to remain in Ein Hijleh". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  11. ^ Reviews of Anarchists against the Wall:
  12. ^ Reviews of Anarchy alive!:
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