Humour, violence and cruelty in late nineteenth century anarchist culture

Brigstocke, Julian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2455-0504 2018. Humour, violence and cruelty in late nineteenth century anarchist culture. Ferretti, Federico, Barrera de la Torre, Gerónimo, Ince, Anthony and Toro, Francisco, eds. Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges, Routledge, pp. 65-86.

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Abstract

In this chapter I explore the ways in which late 19th century French anarchism created a link with forms of experimental and subversive humour that has remained an important part of the movement until the present day. Focusing on the culture of humour in anarchist cultural spaces in the Paris of the 1880s and 1890s, I explore the motivations for the conjunction of humour and anarchism, and examine some of the political reverberations of this practice in the context of the rise of anarchist violence or ‘propaganda by the deed’ during the 1890s.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DC France G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367219000
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2022 10:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145510

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