Anarchism and syndicalism can be studied as templates for processes of political and cultural globalisation. This volume, however, argues that anarchism and syndicalism cannot be fully understood with reference only to transnationalism. With implications beyond the field of anarchist studies and the history of anarchism, the book treats anarchism as one example of transnational social networking while challenging the status of transnationalism as academic orthodoxy, highlighting the gray areas between national and transnational, global and local, national social field and transnational network.

Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction: Problematizing Scales of Analysis in Network-Based Social Movements Constance Bantman and Bert Altena Part II: Anarchist Theories of Nation, State, and Internationalism 2. Nations Without Borders: Anarchists and National Identity Davide Turcato 3. Kropotkin's Theory of the State: A Transnational Approach Ruth Kinna 4. A Networking Historian: The Transnational, the National and the Patriotic in and Around Max Nettlau's Geschichte der Anarchie Bert Altena Part III: Transnational Practices and Identities, Diasporic Cultures 5. Anarchists as Emigrants Isabelle Felici 6. A Golden Gate of Anarchy: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Anarchism in San Francisco, 1880s-1930s Kenyon Zimmer 7. "The Game of the Goose" Italian Anarchism: Transnational, National, or Local Perspective? Pietro DiPaula 8. Sedentary Anarchists Raymond Craib Part IV: The Resilience of Localism and Nationalism 9. More Than an Antonym: A Close(r) Look at the Dichotomy Between the National and Anarchism Nino Kühnis 10. The Dangerous Liaisons of Belle-Epoque Anarchists: Internationalism, Transnationalism, Nationalism in the French Anarchist Movement (1880-1914) Constance Bantman 11. "Mother Spain, We Love You!": Nationalism and Racism in Anarchist Literature During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Martin Baxmeyer