Jeff Shantz is an anarchist activist, poet, and sociologist, currently teaching critical criminology

Critical theory

Critical theory is an examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities. The term has two different meanings with different origins and histories: one originating in sociology and the other in literary criticism...

 at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a public degree-granting undergraduate polytechnic university with four campuses located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland...

 in Surrey, BC

Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver, the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District...

.

His books Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements (Lexington, 2011) and Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance (Ashgate, 2010) offer an autoethnographic

Autoethnography

Autoethnography is a form or method of social research that explores the researcher's personal experience and connects this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings...

 analysis of anarchist participation within contemporary social movements. Using various case studies of groups building what he terms "infrastructures of resistance", he compares anarchist involvement in rank-and-file workplace organizing, migrant defense, free schools, new media collectives, and community centers.

Academic Biography

He is a faculty member in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a public degree-granting undergraduate polytechnic university with four campuses located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland...

 and has taught courses on critical criminology

Critical criminology

Critical criminology is a theoretical perspective in criminology which takes a conflict perspective, such as marxism, feminism, political economy theory or critical theory. The focus of critical criminology is the genesis of crime and nature of ‘justice’ within a structure of class and status...

, elite deviance

Deviance (sociology)

Deviance in a sociological context describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules as well as informal violations of social norms...

, corporate crime

Corporate crime

In criminology, corporate crime refers to crimes committed either by a corporation , or by individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or other business entity...

 and the Olympics, as well as community advocacy and human rights. He received a B.A. (Honours) in Psychology from Queen’s University (1989), a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Social Policy Issues from Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...

 (1991), an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

(1995), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 (2006).

Scholarship

He is the author of several books, and has published over 75 articles, book chapters and book reviews, in academic or refereed publications.

Meanwhile, he has been frequent contributor to many different movement 'zines

Zine

A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....

 and journal publications including: Anarchy, Social Anarchism, Green Anarchy, Earth First! Journal, Northeastern Anarchist, the Industrial Worker, Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Onward, Arsenal and Processed World.

Authored Books

2011. Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. ISBN: Cloth 0-7391-6613-1 / 978-0-7391-6613-0

2011. Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination. Imprint Academic, Exeter, UK. ISBN 9781845402372

2010. Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance. Ashgate, London, UK. ISBN 978-1-4094-0402-6

Books Edited, Collected Works

2011. Law Against Liberty: The Criminalization of Dissent. Lake Mary, Florida: Vandeplas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60042-139-6.

2010. A Creative Passion: Anarchism and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 1-4438-2334-1

2010. Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance. New York: Algora Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87586-807-3

2010. Racial Profiling and Borders: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Lake Mary, Florida: Vandeplas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60042-102-0

External Links

• http://jeffshantz.ca

Books by Jeff Shantz: }

• http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/socialsciences/criminology/faculty_listing.html | Criminology Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• http://www.freewords.org/freepress/writer/jeffshantz
• http://vandeplaspublishing.com/store/product.php?productid=112 - Racial Profiling and Borders: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• http://www.algora.com/333/book/details.html - Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance
• http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/A-Creative-Passion--Anarchism-and-Culture1-4438-2334-1.htm - A Creative Passion: Anarchism and Culture
• http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409404026 - Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance

• http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/Singlebook.shtml?command=search&db=^DB\Catalog.db&eqSKUdatarq=0739166131 - Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements

• http://www.booksonix.com/scripts/imprint/hfclient.isa?A=booksonix_imprint_bookshop&L=0O1308385661&RQ=2335877&F=form&AS=FIND%7CPS%7CForthcoming%7CAND%7CRS%7CA – Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination

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