Anarchism and Geography
A Brief Genealogy of Anarchist Geographies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Springer (0000-0002-0064-7440, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-60 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12022 |
| OpenAlex | W1866557808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 56 |
Anarchism and geography have a long and disjointed history, characterized by towering peaks of intensive intellectual engagement and low troughs of ambivalence and disregard. This paper traces a genealogy of anarchist geographies back to the modern development of anarchism into a distinct political philosophy following the Enlightenment. The initial rise of geographers' engagement with anarchism occurred at the end of the 19th-century, owing to Élisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin, who developed an emancipatory vision for geography in spite of the discipline's enchantment with imperialism at that time. The realpolitik of the war years in the first half of the 20th-century and the subsequent quantitative revolution in geography represent a nadir for anarchist geographies. Yet anarchism was never entirely abandoned by geographical thought and the counterculture movement of the 1970s gave rise to radical geography, which included significant interest in anarchist ideas. Unfortunately another low occurred during the surge of neoliberal politics in the 1980s and early 1990s, but hope springs eternal, and from the late 1990s onward the anti-globalization movement and DIY culture have pushed anarchist geographies into more widespread currency. In reviewing the literature, I hope to alert readers to the ongoing and manifold potential for anarchist geographies to inform both geographical theory and importantly, to give rise to more practice-based imperatives where building solidarities, embracing reciprocity, and engaging in mutual aid with actors and communities beyond the academy speaks to the 'freedom of geography' and its latent capacity to shatter its own disciplinary circumscriptions
Aesthetics · Art history · Counterculture · Cultural geography · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Geography · Human geography · Perspectivism · Political science · Politics · Realpolitik · Social science · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy
Critical Animal Geographies
Annales, géohistoire et socialisme
Brisas Libertarias
The spatiality of geography teaching and cultures of alternative education
Reading Reclus between Italy and South America
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Radical Political Geographies
Anarchist Geography
Geography (Human and Urban)
Pyotr before Paulo
Envisioning radical food geographies
Kropotkin’s Anarchist Animals
Proudhon’s Critique of Nationalism in His Federalism Vision
Grab it and change it, it’s yours
Crude geopolitics
The limits to Marx
For anarcho-geography! Or, bare-knuckle boxing as the world burns
Why a radical geography must be anarchist
Human geography without hierarchy
Music, Nature, Power, and Place
Planning against planning
Tourism and anarchism
Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”
Urban Spaces of Crisis Solidarity
Frack off
Resilience, Political Ecology, and Power
Assembling Political Parties
Anarchism, Geohistory, and the Annales
Anarchist Participatory Development
The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
From
The Politics of Postanarchism
Dissident Geographies
Fields, Factories and Workshops
Cambodia's Neoliberal Order
The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
New Perspectives on Anarchism
The development of radical geography in the United States
The correspondence between Élisée Reclus and Pëtr Kropotkin as a source for the history of geography
The Ecology of Freedom
The Vessel, the Deed, and the Idea
Anarchism! What Geography Still Ought To Be
Squatting is Still Legal, Necessary and Free”
Practice What You Teach
State‐centered Social Science and the Anarchist Critique
Anarchist Decentralism in Rural Spain, 1936–1939
Instead of Radical Geography, How About Caring Geography
Emotion at the Center of Radical Politics
Élisée Reclus, Geographer and Anarchist
The Shaping of a Rural Anarchist Landscape
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
What Geography Ought to Be
In the Shell of the Old
Public Space as Emancipation
The Geography of Human Liberation
Reanimating Anarchist Geographies
Impressions of an Anarchist Landscapf
Kropotkin and the City
For Kropotkin
The Pervasive Nature of Heterodox Economic Spaces at a Time of Neoliberal Crisis
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
Industrial Collectivization Under Workers’ Control
The Libertarian Movement in Contemporary Spanish Politics
Problems and Prospects for a Geography of Mental Health
Ideology and the Idea of Nature
Nowtopia
Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry
Between Pinochet and Kropotkin
Violent Accumulation
Anarchy, Geography and Drift
Anarchy doesn't work unless you think about it
Spatial Politics in Practice
Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies
Fields, factories and workshops
Notes towards autonomous geographies
Convergence space
The political pivot of geography
Reinventing Radical Geography
The child in the city
Illegal Evictions? Overwriting Possession and Orality with Law's Violence inCambodia
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |