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{{Short description|Israeli anarchist theorist and activist}} |
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| name = Uri Gordon |
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| image = Uri Gordon, 2023.jpg |
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| alt = Image of a man with brown hair and grey beard smiling in front of a wall with many colourful activism posters |
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| caption = Gordon in 2023 |
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| native_name = אורי גורדון |
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| native_name_lang = Hebrew |
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1976}} |
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| birth_place = Israel |
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| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]] |
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| known_for = [[Anarchist theory]] |
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| notable_works = ''[[Anarchy Alive!]]'' |
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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>{{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 |last=Camas Books & Infoshop |access-date=2024-06-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref> He has lived in Israel and [[Great Britain]] engaging in a transnational [[anti-globalization movement]]. 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 worked with organizations including [[Indymedia]], [[Peoples' Global Action|Peoples Global Action]], and [[Anarchists Against the Wall]]. |
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== Scholarship == |
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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" /> |
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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" /> |
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== Activism == |
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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" /> |
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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>{{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 |last=Camas Books & Infoshop |access-date=2024-06-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref> He also notes that the first necessity is an end to the [[Gaza humanitarian crisis (2023–present)|current violence]] in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]. |
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== Publications == |
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* Gordon, Uri, and Ohal Grietzer. 2013. ''Anarchists against the Wall : Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle''. Edinburgh: AK. |
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* Gordon, Uri. 2008. ''Anarchy Alive! : Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory''. London: Pluto Press. |
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== References == |
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