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This book provides a historical into the development of anarchist geographies in the UK and the implications for current theory and practice. It explores the scientific networks that Kropotkin and the Reclus brothers cultivated during their exile in Britain and Ireland, and the contribution they made to the geographical sciences of those places.
List of contents
Introduction: Alternative Geographical Traditions 1. The Reclus Brothers: Translating Science and Radical Politics in the Age of Empire 2. Editorial Networks and The Publics of Science: Building Pluralist Geographies 3. Establishing a Geographical Tradition in the ‘British Isles’: Emergent Social and Political Geographies 4. Striving for Freedom: Reclus’s and Kropotkin’s Politics in the UK 5. Ripples and Waves of Anarchist Writing: Towards Humane Sciences Conclusion: The Relevance of Early Critical Geographies
About the author
Federico Ferretti is a Lecturer in Human Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. He discussed a PhD dissertation on Élisée Reclus’s New Universal Geography at the Universities of Bologna and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has taught in Italy, Switzerland, France and Brazil. His main research interests lie in alternative geographical traditions and the international and multilingual circulation of geographical knowledge, especially from Latin America and continental Europe.
Summary
This book provides a historical into the development of anarchist geographies in the UK and the implications for current theory and practice. It explores the scientific networks that Kropotkin and the Reclus brothers cultivated during their exile in Britain and Ireland, and the contribution they made to the geographical sciences of those places.
