Jeff Shantz

Who is Jeff Shantz?

Jeff Shantz is an anarchist activist, poet, and sociologist, currently teaching critical criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC.

His books Active Anarchy: Political Practice in Contemporary Movements and Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance offer an autoethnographic 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.