John Petrovato
Encyclopedia
John Petrovato is a former Director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies
and co-organizer of the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
(RAT) conference. The RAT conference, which he co-organizes with Cindy Milstein
, seeks to provide a scholarly space in which to both reexamine and reinvigorate the social and political tradition of anarchism
. He has been a long-time anarchist organizer and involved in numerous projects. Much of his recent writings have focused on his human rights work in Israel
/Palestine
. His field reports have appeared in Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement published by Verso Press and Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Israeli Occupation published by South End Press
.
Selected published articles by John Petrovato:
Institute for Anarchist Studies
The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a non-profit organization founded by Chuck W. Morse following the anarchist-communist school of thought, in 1996 to assist anarchist writers and further develop the theoretical aspects of the anarchist movement...
and co-organizer of the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
Renewing the Anarchist Tradition is an annual conference of anarchist intellectuals. Started in 1997, it has brought together anarchists and anti-authoritarian scholars and activists desiring to critically engage both with the tradition itself and the world at large...
(RAT) conference. The RAT conference, which he co-organizes with Cindy Milstein
Cindy Milstein
Cindy Milstein is an anarchist activist and educator who talks at various anarchist and socialist gatherings. One such talk was the very informal but in-depth class, "Anarchism 101" at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, at the American University in Washington DC, in 2003 and 2004...
, seeks to provide a scholarly space in which to both reexamine and reinvigorate the social and political tradition of anarchism
Anarchism
Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...
. He has been a long-time anarchist organizer and involved in numerous projects. Much of his recent writings have focused on his human rights work in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
/Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
. His field reports have appeared in Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement published by Verso Press and Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Israeli Occupation published by South End Press
South End Press
South End Press is a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others, in Boston's South End...
.
External links
Selected published articles by John Petrovato:
- http://www.stateofnature.org/producingNationalIdentity.html Producing National Identity:Museums, Memory and Collective Thought in Israel]
- Israel/Palestine democracy
- The Slow Creep of Israel's Annexation
- Anarchist Book Review for the year 2007
- What's happening: new anarchist books
- Live From Palestine