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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.
List of contents
Foreword Introduction Part 1: Spaces of the History of Anarchism 1. Anarchists and the city: governance, revolution and the imagination 2. Uncovering and understanding hidden bonds: applying social field theory to the financial records of anarchist newspapers 3. The other nation: the places of the Italian anarchist press in the USA 4. Humour, violence and cruelty in late nineteenth-century anarchist culture Part 2: Early Anarchist Geographies and their Places 5. The thought of Élisée Reclus as a source of inspiration for degrowth ethos 6. Revolutions and their places: the Anarchist Geographers and the problem of nationalities in the Age of Empire (1875-1914) 7. Historicising ‘anarchist geography’: six issues for debate from a historian's point of view Part 3: Anarchist Geographies, Places and Present Challenges 8. Lived spaces of anarchy: Colin Ward’s social anarchy in action 9. Moment, Flow, Language, Non-Plan: the unique architecture of insurrection in a Brazilian urban periphery 10. Future (pre-)histories of the state: on anarchy, archaeology, and the decolonial 11. On 'Other' geographies and anarchisms
About the author
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.
Summary
This book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over time. The book explores the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their spa
