Pamphleteering

Pamphleteering: A History of Dissent and Political Agency

The ‘Pamphlet Wars’ of the seventeenth century, the activist texts of the Labour Movement, and recent campaigns for climate justice have all drawn on the affordances of pamphleteering to advance their cause: pamphlets circulate across geographical boundaries and social divides, they attract a readership that is usually excluded from the classical public sphere, they can be produced at low cost, and they often provide anonymit…