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Hello convenors, open minded thinkers etc, This does look timely. I feel that an added name should be my late good friend and co-author, Colin Ward. Holder of Honorary Doctorate, translator of ; author of numerous books including Anarchy in Action, editions and interpretations of Kropotkin etc. see also Chris Wilbert's recent collection of Colin's work, Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility, [with Damien White] AK Press, 2011. Colin was also, of course, editor of Anarchy through the 50s and 60s. good wishes David ________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Federico Ferretti [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 01 February 2015 17:13 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 2nd CFP, RGS-IBG 2015, Historical Geographies of Anarchism Deadline extended until 13 February 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS - Historical Geographies of Anarchism: situating struggles, studying environments RGS-IBG 2015 AIC, Exeter 2-4 September 2015, Geographies of Anthropocene Session sponsored by the RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group Session convenors: Gerónimo Barrera, Research Institute “Dr. José María Luis Mora” (Mexico) Fabien Colombo, University of Bordeaux (France) Federico Ferretti, University of Geneva (Switzerland) Francisco Toro, University of Granada (Spain) Call for papers In the last years, international geographical research has rediscovered anarchism, as witnessed by the 2012 special issues consecrated to it by the journals ACME and Antipode and by the recent flourishing of papers and conferences, in English and other languages, on historical anarchist geographers like Elisée Reclus and Pëtr Kropotkin. Following the session Demanding the impossible: transgressing the frontiers of geography through anarchism held in the RGS-IBG 2013 International Conference, the proposed session aims to analyse the relation between geography and anarchism on the standpoints of historical geography and philosophy and history of geography. For this purpose, we invite papers on the following topics: Putting Anarchism in its place: historical experiences of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist political and social practices analysed within their places, environments, cultures and genders, in the frame of the studies on Geography and Revolution. Networks and circulations of anarchist knowledge, with a special focus on the literature on Transnational Anarchism, which is reconstructing the international trajectories of anarchist militants between the 19th and the 20th century, stressing their relations with anti-colonialist movements and non-European cultures, like African, Arabic and East-Asian workers or indigenous movements in Latin America. Anarchism and Environmental History. In their last works, respectively L’Homme et la Terre and La civilisation et les grands fleuves historiques, Élisée Reclus and Lev Meènikov tried to build a world geo-history in which natural and human features were seen as parts of a general harmony, which only a radical social change could realize. These works could be seen today as a tentative to give an anarchist vision of Anthropocene, and can be analysed considering their effectiveness on present problems of global resources, which Reclus and Meènikov considered related both to environmental problems and socioeconomic inequalities. Their approaches could serve present debates on limits of growth, political and social ecology, mesology, spatial justice, cosmopolitanism and international brotherhood. Social and natural sciences for human liberation. Together with Pëtr Kropotkin, Reclus and Meènikov elaborated the well-known theory of Mutual Aid, participating in the debates on Evolutionism and contrasting the Social Darwinism of that time, by considering cooperation as a factor in evolution. This concept also contributed to the socialist critiques of Thomas Malthus. Problematizing these topics entails reflexions on the present coming back of Creationism, Malthusianism and physical Determinism. Anarchism, urban history and the origins of regional planning. Reclus and Kropotkin dealt with urban history considering towns as the places where the idea of free association was build. Nevertheless, they participated in a critique of the industrial town, influencing concepts like the Patrick Geddes’s Regional Planning, the Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City and the Arturo Soria y Mata’s Linear City. All these authors deserve further research which is welcome. The session is also open for scholars not belonging to historical geography’s sector who are willing to deal with the above concepts within contemporary debates. 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