1st Edition

Historical Geographies of Anarchism Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement. Its traditions, often hastily dismissed, are increasingly revealing insights which inspire present-day scholarship in geography. This book provides a historical geography of anarchism, analysing the places and spatiality of historical anarchist movements, key thinkers, and the present scientific challenges of the geographical anarchist traditions.

    This volume offers rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geographies with contributions from international leading experts. It also explores the historical geographies of anarchism by examining their expressions in a series of distinct geographical contexts and their development over time. Contributions examine the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their space and time, and the way this spirit continues to animate the anarchist geographies of our own, perhaps often in unpredictable ways. There is also an examination of contemporary expressions of anarchist geographical thought in the fields of social movements, environmental struggles, post-statist geographies, indigenous thinking and situated cosmopolitanisms.

    This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in historical geography, political geography, social movements and anarchism.

    Foreword

    Simon Springer

    Introduction

    Federico Ferretti, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, Anthony Ince and Francisco Toro

    Part 1: Spaces of the History of Anarchism

    1. The Anarchists and the city: governance, revolution and the imagination

    Carl Levy

    2. Uncovering and understanding hidden bonds: applying social field theory to the financial records of anarchist newspapers

    Andrew Hoyt

    3. The other nation: places of the Italian anarchist press in the USA

    Davide Turcato

    4. Humour, violence and cruelty in late nineteenth-century anarchist culture

    Julien Brigstocke

    Part 2: Early Anarchist Geographies and their Places

    5. The thought of Elisée Reclus as an inspiration for degrowth ethos

    Francisco Toro

    6. Revolutions, and their places: the Anarchist Geographers and the problem of nationalities in the Age of Empire

    Federico Ferretti

    7. Historicising ‘anarchist geography’: six issues for debate from a historian point of view

    Pascale Siegrist

      Part 3: Anarchist Geographies, Places and Present Challenges

        8. Lived places of anarchy: Colin Ward’s social anarchy in action

        David Crouch

        9. Moment, Flow, Language, Non-Plan: the unique architecture of insurrection in a Brazilian urban periphery

        Rita Velloso

        10. Future (pre)histories of the state: on anarchy, archaeology, and the decolonial

        Anthony Ince and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

        11. About other geographies and anarchisms

        Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre and Narciso Barrera-Bassols

        Biography

        Federico Ferretti is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.

        Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

        Anthony Ince is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.

        Francisco Toro is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Regional Geographical Analysis and Physical Geography, University of Granada, Spain.

        "Historical Geographies of Anarchism looks at both the early part of

        anarchism’s evolution and speculates on its potential future(s). The book provides an overview

        of strains of anarchist thought that originated and were put into practice in various locations

        across the globe. The applied nature of anarchism is striking as many chapters provide examples

        of how anarchist thought is inseparable from everyday actions. The book is divided into three

        sections. The first covers “Spaces of the History of Anarchism”, with the second and third

        centring around “Early Anarchist Geographies and their Places” and “Anarchist Geographies,

        Places and Present Challenges”. - Nathan Poirier, Antipode - A Radical Journal of Geography