ABSTRACT

The processes of cross-breeding between anarchism and geography were likewise located. Although former works addressed the role of Switzerland as the exile land where the first networks of anarchist geographers were established, the role played by the British Isles for the consolidation of these networks was at least threefold. First, editorial business and the necessity of gathering data and sources were the reasons for the formation of most of the Recluses' networks of acquaintances in that area, being therefore related to their scholarly work. Second, Peter Kropotkin and Elisee Reclus wrote social, political and economic geographies which still inspire radical scholarship, in works such as Fields, Factories and Workshops and Reclus's chapter on British imperialism in L'Homme et la Terre. Third, Britain intellectual anarchists found sufficient room for having intellectual exchanges with a very heterogeneous range of scholars and activists, from those who were a far cry from anarchism like Mackinder, to those who were very akin to their ideas.