Infrastructural Critique. The Upside-Down of the Bottom-Up: A Case Study on the IBA Berlin 84/87 by Eva Maria Hierzer, Philipp Markus Schörkhuber

“…Participation in planning is a logical consequence of the democratisation of society due to the social and cultural changes related to modernism. Anarchistic participation, as in Autogestion, within a development process, is a critical utopian alternative draft to existing power structures. …”
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Le « retour à la terre » : entre utopie et nostalgie   by Madeleine Sallustio

“…Indeed, France has been the scene of various “back-to-Nature” movements and of connected activities (organic agriculture, goat farming, handicraft, …) that are still undertaken by libertarian anarchists; heirs of Mai, 1968; or people in search of ecological coherence and independence.This study is about the articulation of the rural nostalgia and the utopian aspirations of the contemporaneous “back-to-Nature” project. …”
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Entre histoire sociale des conflits et histoire des concepts : protestation et ordre public en Espagne dans le dernier tiers du xixe siècle by François Godicheau

“…Nevertheless, the overview we propose reveals a scattering trend in the investigations, certainly because of a tendency to naturalise the categories of the «social» and the «political»; as well because of the recurrent presence in nineteenth century political discourse of concepts referring to some realities: important political phrases like «public order» or popular disorder figures like «bandits» or «anarchists». As part of a research program financed by the French National Research Agency, entitled «The imperial renewal of the Iberian states: an early form of globalisation? …”
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Institutionalization of Ukrainian Nationalism: Difference of "Svoboda" ("Liberty") and "Praviy Sektor" ("Right Ssector") Ideology by A. A. Tokarev

“…Two of the most famous actors of the Ukrainian nationalists and anarchists parties in modern Russia are "Svoboda" and "Praviy sektor". …”
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Conceptos para el estudio del agro latinoamericano: campesinos y agricultores familiares by Eloy Gómez-Pellón

“…The methodology involves an analysis and comparison of the concept of the peasantry as understood by various historical and ideological schools: agrarian scholars, Russian populists, Russian anarchists (e.g., Kropotkin), Marxists, reformist Marxists (e.g., Luxemburg, Bukharin), and social agronomists (e.g., Bulgakov, Chayanov), who represent the old tradition of peasant studies. …”
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