Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5118449 Political Geography 2017 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper addresses the role of Ireland and Irish republicanism in the geography, biography and political thinking of the French anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus (1830-1905). This paper sheds new light on the construction of a scientific and political discourse, one which was radically opposed to external and internal colonialisms in the Age of Empire, analysing primary sources such as Reclus' texts and correspondence, along with his transnational networks. It draws on present-day debates on 'geography and anarchism', postcolonial Ireland and international circulation and localisation of knowledge. Finally, it is a contribution to evaluating the importance of the 'British Isles' as a place for production and reception of the geographical and political works by both Reclus and the other anarchist geographer Pëtr Kropotkin (1842-1921), scholars and militants who lived there in different periods of their respective careers.

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