ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the scholarly outputs of the editorial networks, especially Elisee Reclus' Guide for the traveller in London. London provided one of the first opportunities for Reclus to present his ideas on modern urbanisation and urban growth. Establishing foundations for emerging social and economic geographies, the early writing of Reclus and Pyotr Kropotkin contributed to generating an anarchist and critical geographical tradition through analyses based on conclusions drawn from the British Isles. The effectiveness of Kropotkin's analysis lay in denaturalising the relations of production beyond historical and geographical determinism, highlighting their character as involving political and cultural choices. According to Gary Dunbar, the earliest occurrences of the term 'social geography' can be traced to French literature in relation to works such as those of Reclus in the Nouvelle Geographie universelle from 1884, and in L'Homme et la Terre later.
