Jeff Shantz
Areas of interest
Social justice, critical theory, state and corporate crime, and community advocacy.
Education
- PhD, York University
- MA, University of Windsor
- PBD, Simon Fraser University
- BA (Honours), Quebec
Biography
Jeff Shantz is an anarchist writer, poet, photographer, artist, and organizer with decades of participation in community movements and as a rank-and-file workplace activist. He currently teaches social justice, critical theory, state and corporate crime, and community advocacy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He is project lead on Anti-Poverty/Criminalization/Social War Policing at the Social Justice Center in Surrey (Unceded Coast Salish territories). Shantz is the author and/or editor of more than 20 books, including "Cyber Disobedience: Re://Presenting Online Anarchy" (with Jordon Tomblin, Zero Books, 2014), "Anarchy and Society: Reflections on Anarchist Sociology" (with Dana Williams, Brill/Haymarket, 2013), "Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red/Green Vision" (Syracuse University Press, 2012), and "Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance" (Routledge, 2010). His most recent books are "Organizing Anarchy: Anarchism in Action" (Brill/Haymarket 2020) and "Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment" (with Anthony J Nocella and Mark Seis, AK Press, 2020). His "Crisis and Resistance Trilogy" is freely available at Punctum Books. Shantz is co-founder of the Critical Criminology Working Group and Anti Police Power Surrey, and founding editor of the journal "Radical Criminology."