Acknowledgments

Thank you to those in the International Relations department at the University of St. Andrews, especially Richard English, Orla Lynch, Alex Danchev, Gilbert Ramsay, Roddy Brett, Peter Lehr, Karin Fierke, Sally Cummings, Caron Gentry and Tim Wilson, for their encouragement, advice and words of wisdom on matters of dissent and rebellion. Thanks to Tooting Free Press, who published an essay on dissent and romanticism that started this book; to E-International Relations, who first published an essay on ISIS, parts of which have also found its way into this book; and to Studio International, who published my interviews with artists Ben Quilty, John Keane and George Gittoes. Thanks to Charlie Gilmour and Heathcote Ruthven for discussion, inspiration and friendship. Thanks to Carrie Kania, for writing advice and support in the beginning.

Thank you most of all to Darran Anderson, a true collaborator, for love and support and our beautiful baby Caspian (and for holding him when I had a paragraph to finish).

And of course thank you to Tariq Goddard and everyone at Repeater Books, for publishing this book and providing a haven for subversion and spirit.