Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University; co-editor of Anarchist Studies) will address anarchism as an alternative to liberal democracy. The event is co-sponsored by Penn’s Political Theory Workshop.

Ruth Kinna is a political theorist and historian of ideas specialising in historical and contemporary anarchism, nineteenth and early twentieth-century socialist thought, utopianism, and political militancy. She is co-editor of the journal Anarchist Studies and editor of the Bloomsbury series, Radical Subjects. Kinna graduated from Queen Mary, University of London with a 1st class degree in History and Politics. She completed her doctoral research at Nuffield College, Oxford, funded by the Social Science Research Council.

Click here to download the paper Ruth Kinna has prepared for this event.