Anarchism has seldom had good press, and anarchists have always faced resistance to their political philosophy. Despite this, this work contends that anarchism has considerably influenced the modern political landscape. It explores the contemporary face of anarchism as expressed via environmental protests and the anti-globalization movement.

Anarchism has seldom had good press, and anarchists have always faced resistance to their political philosophy. Despite this, "21st Century Dissent" contends that anarchism has considerably influenced the modern political landscape. Giorel Curran explores the contemporary face of anarchism as expressed via environmental protests and the anti-globalization movement. She contends that anti-capitalist protest has propelled an invigorated - but reconceptualized - anarchism into the heart of 21st century dissent.

Introduction - PART ONE: THEORIZING CONTEMPORARY ANARCHISM - Anarchism Old and New - Movements of Anti-Globalization - Technologies of Dissent - Ecology and Anarchy - PART TWO: PRACTISING CONTEMPORARY ANARCHISM - The Politics of Zapatismo - Greening Anarchy: Social Ecology - Reclaim the Streets - Earth First! - Conclusion: Towards 21st Century Dissent - Bibliography - Index