Uri Gordon (born August 30, 1976) is an Israeli anarchist theorist and activist.He is a lecturer at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Ketura, Israel. One of several anarchist theorists to come of age during the anti-globalization movement at the turn of the twenty-first century,he has worked with anarchist and radical movements including Indymedia, Peoples' Global Action, and Anarchists Against the Wall. Active primarily in Britain and his native Israel, Gordon has participated in protests at international summits across Europe.
Gordon's book Anarchy Alive!, based on his PhD research at Oxford University, was well-received by reviewers. He wrote a guest editorial following the Second Lebanon War in Anarchist Studies volume 14, issue 2, and contributed an article on anarchism in Israel to the subsequent issue. He has written reviews for The New Formulation, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
Gordon's work has also appeared in mainstream Israeli newspapers. He has written articles for the English language edition of Haaretz addressing the 2007—2008 world food price crisis, carbon emission trading, and the 2008 civil unrest in Greece. The Jerusalem Post featured Gordon's "Right of Reply: Anarchy in the Holy Land!" as an op-ed in its June 12, 2007 edition.
“Utopia in Contemporary Anarchism”. In Lawrence Davis and Ruth Kinna (eds.), Anarchism and Utopianism (Manchester University Press, 2008)
Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745326832
“Anarchism Reloaded”, Journal of Political Ideologies 12.1 (2007)
“Israeli Anarchism: Statist dilemmas in a joint struggle”, Anarchist Studies 15.1 (2007)
“Practising Anarchist Theory: Towards a participatory political philosophy”. In Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber (eds.), Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2006).
“After the War” (Editorial), Anarchist Studies 14.2 (2006)
Review of William J. Fishman, “East End Jewish Radicals: 1875–1914”; Rudolf Rocker, “The London Years”. Anarchist Studies 14.2 (2006)
“???????: What did the Greeks actually say?”, Anarchist Studies 14.1 (2006)
Review of Paul Kingsnorth, “One No, Many Yesses”; Notes from Nowhere (eds.), “We are Everywhere”. Perspectives on Anarchist Theory 8.1 (2004)
Review of Michael Albert, “The Trajectory of Change”; Starhawk, “Webs of Power”; John Holloway, “Change the World without Taking Power”. The New Formulation 2.1