Jeff Shantz (author)
Jeff Shantz is an anarchist activist, poet, and sociologist, currently teaching critical criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC.
His books ACTIVE Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements (Lexington, 2011) and Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance (Ashgate, 2010) offer an autoethnographic analysis of anarchist participation within contemporary social movements. Using various case studies of groups building what he terms "infrastructures of resistance", he compares anarchist involvement in rank-and-file workplace organizing, migrant defense, free schools, new media collectives, and community centers.
Academic Biography
He is a faculty member in the Department Of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and has taught courses on critical criminology, elite deviance, corporate crime and the Olympics, as well as community advocacy and human rights. He received a B.A. (Honours) in Psychology from Queen’s University (1989), a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Social Policy Issues from Simon Fraser University (1991), an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Windsor(1995), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from York University (2006).
Scholarship
He is the author of several books, and has published over 75 articles, book chapters and book reviews, in academic or refereed publications.
Meanwhile, he has been frequent contributor to many different movement 'zines and journal publications including: Anarchy, Social Anarchism, Green Anarchy, Earth First! Journal, Northeastern Anarchist, the Industrial Worker, Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Onward, Arsenal and Processed World.
Authored Books
2011. Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. ISBN: Cloth 0-7391-6613-1 / 978-0-7391-6613-0
2011. Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination. Imprint Academic, Exeter, UK. ISBN 978-1-84540-237-2
2010. Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance. Ashgate, London, UK. ISBN 978-1-4094-0402-6
Books Edited, Collected Works
2011. Law Against Liberty: The Criminalization of Dissent. Lake Mary, Florida: Vandeplas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60042-139-6.
2010. A Creative Passion: Anarchism and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 1-4438-2334-1
2010. Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance. New York: Algora Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87586-807-3
2010. Racial Profiling and Borders: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Lake Mary, Florida: Vandeplas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60042-102-0
External links
Books by Jeff Shantz: *
- http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/socialsciences/criminology/faculty_listing.html | Criminology Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- http://www.freewords.org/freepress/writer/jeffshantz
- http://vandeplaspublishing.com/store/product.php?productid=112 - Racial Profiling and Borders: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- http://www.algora.com/333/book/details.html - Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance
- http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/A-Creative-Passion--Anarchism-and-Culture1-4438-2334-1.htm - A Creative Passion: Anarchism and Culture
- http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409404026 - Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance
- http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/Singlebook.shtml?command=search&db=^DB\Catalog.db&eqSKUdatarq=0739166131 - Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements
- http://www.booksonix.com/scripts/imprint/hfclient.isa?A=booksonix_imprint_bookshop&L=0O1308385661&RQ=2335877&F=form&AS=FIND%7CPS%7CForthcoming%7CAND%7CRS%7CA – Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination