Anarchaos and order: On the emergence of social justice

In this article we explore aspects of anarchism and of chaos theory, sugges ting that recent insights advanced by the latter shed new light on the form er. The former conceptually explains the importance of natural order as a h uman process that questions and, ultimately, subverts the artifice of state -imposed authoritative order. The latter examines, both theoretically and e mpirically, the role of order, disorder, and 'chaotic' social dynamics in t he transitions that society faces (i.e. order to chaos and chaos to order). Thus, we contend that these perspectives are assimilable: anarchism descri bes an organic means of reconfiguring social dynamics and chaology shows us how this process of reconfiguration is a naturally occurring element in al l physical and social systems. To situate the sustained conceptual analysis , Lye describe how the proposed assimilation impacts law, crime, and especi ally social justice in society.