Anarchy and geography : Reclus and Kropotkin in the UK / Federico Ferretti.

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Main Author: Ferretti, Federico (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge research in historical geography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Introduction: alternative geographical traditions; 1. The Reclus brothers: translating science and radical politics in the age of empire; Exiles in the British Islands: discovering social and colonial questions; Reclus in Ireland: discovering colonialism and landlordism; Long-lasting effects of the London experience: dealing with British science; Reclus in London on numerous occasions; 2. Editorial networks and the publics of science: building pluralist geographies
  • Kropotkin's early networks: John Scott Keltie, Patrick Geddes and Joseph CowenGeographers, editors and gentlemen: Henry Bates, Hugh Mill, William Robertson-Smith, Hugh Chisholm; The Nineteenth Century: socialism and evolutionary theorising; Kropotkin: an anarchist in the editorial business; The business world of publishing again: Halford Mackinder and the anarchists; 3. Establishing a geographical tradition in the 'British Isles': emergent social and political geographies; A universal geography, and an amazing traveller's guide; Showing London to the French
  • The NGU and the Mediterranean metaphorThe NGU and the principle of coastal indentation; Fields, factories and workshops: an anarchist economic geography of England; 4. Striving for Freedom: Reclus's and Kropotkin's politics in the UK; Charlotte and Pyotr: founding a journal; Anarchism, female activism and women's rights; For 'subject races' and for Ireland: Nannie Dryhurst and the others; A strenuous anti-colonialist; Freedom for Ireland; Kropotkin and Alfred Marsh: between activism and scholarship; Decolonizing socialism (and geography): The Black Man's Burden
  • Reclus and Freedom against the EmpireJingoes and Matabele; Non-European revolutions; 5. Ripples and waves of anarchist writing: towards humane sciences; The most 'humane' collaborator: Richard Heath; Reclus, and Heath's French connection; Heath, and Kropotkin's British connection; Anarchism, humanism and gay rights: Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis; Ethical socialism: Henry Salt, William Morris and Walter Crane; Morris and anarchism; The Scottish connection: James Mavor, the Geikies and the Geddeses; 6. Conclusion: the relevance of early critical geographies
  • Appendix A: Pyotr Kropotkin, 'Natural selection and mutual aid'Appendix B: Élisée Reclus, 'War', Freedom, May 1898; Appendix C: [Edward Carpenter], To Peter Kropotkin from; Archives; References; Index