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The IAS
The Institute for Anarchist Studies helps foster the theoretical
development of anarchism by awarding grants to writers working on themes
pertinent to anarchism.
We believe it is necessary to create a space for critical scholarship
outside of the conventional sources of intellectual work in our society;
therefore, we are not associated with any university or mainstream
publisher. The competitiveness and specialization of academia tends to
depoliticize theory and stifle independent, inter-disciplinary social
criticism. The publishing industry is generally more interested in sales
than substance. At the IAS we support theoretical work because of its
critical significance and social relevance.
The IAS, one part of a larger movement to radically transform society, is
internally democratic and participatory. We believe that means and ends
should coincide. Our structure and methods reflect our conviction that
individuals can work together without hierarchy to build the preconditions
of a free society.
What We Do
The IAS is involved in three primary activities.
The IAS awards grants to writers who are attempting to contribute to the
critique of domination and the vision of a free society. We give grants for
essays, books, and translations on the basis of several considerations,
including the importance of a work within a comprehensive and
reconstructive critique of domination, the financial need of a particular
author, and the author's plan for completion and distribution of the
finished work. As examples, we might support studies of the general
dynamics of domination, the history of anarchism, and/or the relationship
between art and utopian politics. We award a total of three thousand
dollars in January and June of each year in sums of five hundred to three
thousand dollars. The deadlines for grant applications are December 15th
and May 15th. The first step toward applying for a grant is to write for
more information and an application (enclose a self-addressed, stamped
envelope). Please note that we do not fund projects such as newsletters,
magazines, organizations, or demonstrations.
The IAS is actively engaged in fundraising in order to give out regular
grants and support daily operations. We are also creating an endowment for
theoretical work relevant to anarchism that will exist for generations to
come. The IAS is generously supported by donors of varying economic
circumstances. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the
IAS.
Finally, we produce a biannual newsletter and will sponsor a variety of
projects in order to nurture a broad, intensive discussion of theoretical
concerns pertinent to anarchism.
Institute for Anarchist Studies
P.O. Box 7050
Albany, NY
12225 - USA
http://members.aol.com/iastudy/Default.htm

"The IAS was founded in the spring of 1996 to fight for radical,
anti-authoritarian scholarship. We are alarmed by the current scarcity of
serious, politically committed scholarship on social contradictions and
the possibilities of social transformation. We believe it is necessary
and possible to revitalize this type of theoretical work, and that this
requires the construction of politically engaged organizations dedicated to
this purpose.

Thus the IAS was formed to support critical scholarship on social
domination and radical ideals of freedom - the two constitutive concerns of
anarchist theory. The IAS supports this work in a variety of ways,
although we are focused on providing financial assistance to writers. Our
assistance takes the form of grants, and we award an annual total of $6000.

We initiated the IAS grant program to ease the economic burdens imposed
upon authors who question social hierarchies. While material
rewards are generously allocated to writers who justify social domination
or shrink from social contradictions, those who struggle to articulate
radical ideals are often forced to abandon or dilute their work in order
to survive. This, of course, is neither accidental nor a permanent
condition of advanced intellectual work, but one way among others that
social criticism is suppressed.

Our grants will challenge this. They will give authors some relief from
the brutalities of economic necessity and thus help them write pieces
that confront the existing order. IAS grants will enable writers to do
things such as take time off of work, hire childcare, or purchase a plane
ticket to an archive, thus affording them time and/or research materials
that would otherwise be unavailable.

This will help writers produce rigorous works that sustain and deepen
radical social criticism. For example, this January the IAS awarded
grants to Murray Bookchin and Alan Antliff, whose inquiries into anarchist
history will help us hold on to the anarchist tradition and engage
it more critically. The IAS also awarded grants to Paul Fleckenstein and
Kwaku Kushindana, both of whom will subject contemporary affairs
to an anti-authoritarian analysis. "
Chuck Morse,"Some Comments on the IAS" Perspectives on Anarchist Theory,
Vol. 1, No. 1 - Spring, 1997

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