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

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 andFrancisco 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

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.