Hi Justin (and all),
Regarding Kropotkin, I can recommend a few writings within geography and beyond that explore his relevance to geographical thought and the wider intellectual development of the social sciences:
Adams, M (2015) Kropotkin, Read and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism: Between Reason and Romanticism. Palgrave MacMillan.
Adams M (2012) ‘Uniformity is death: human nature, variety and conflict in Kropotkin’s anarchism’ in Paul J [ed.] governing diversities: democracy, diversity and human nature. Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars, pp. 150-168.
Dugatkin, LA (2011) The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin’s Adventures in Science and Politics. CreateSpace Publishing.
Ferretti F (2011) ‘The correspondence between Élisée Reclus and Pëtr Kropotkin as a source for the history of geography’ Journal of Historical Geography 37(2): 216-222.
Ferretti F (2017) ‘Evolution and revolution: anarchist geographies, modernity and poststructuralism’ Environment and Planning D.
Ince A and Bryant H (2018) ‘Reading hospitality mutually’ Environment and Planning D. DOI: 10.1177/0263775818774048
Kearns G (2004) ‘The political pivot of geography’ Geographical Journal 170(4): 337-346
Also, if you can wait until 2019, Federico Ferretti’s book on Kropotkin and Reclus in the UK is likely to have some brilliant insights. I think it’s due out in early 2019.
Finally, if you are particularly interested in Kropotkin’s geographical contributions to understandings of the universal and particular, you may also find Kropotkin’s last, unfinished book ‘Ethics’
of some interest. In it, he makes the case for a naturalistic ethics that is derived from universal patterns and relationalities across and among human and non-human species (cf Reclus’ work in this area, who was in many ways Kropotkin’s intellectual mentor).
In particular, Kropotkin refuses an absolute, singular, objective notion of universality (or ‘totality’ in Levinas’ terms) in favour of a lived, plural universality that is materially grounded in common everyday practices and ethical dilemmas.
Kropotkin is a funny one to read given his position in between the ‘West’ and the early Soviet Union, but if you give him time and recognise the context of his intellectual struggles against the
powers of white supremacy, capitalism and state-centrism of his time, you’ll find all kinds of insights that hint at many contemporary debates in geography.
Hope this helps,
Ant
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Dear List Members,
I would like to ask the group for ideas, scholars, and/ or references—including your own—where the link is made between Russian ideas throughout history (philosophy; theology; literature;
and so on) and their influence on human, especially cultural, geographical scholarship.
I've included a short reference list below and I'd be willing to share all responses to the group afterwards. Please feel free to circulate this message widely. Thank you very much
in advance for your time and consideration.
One immediate area would be the tradition of geosophy ("earth wisdom''), the study of geography from any or all points of view including from periphery of the discipline and outside.
Focusing on human beings subjective and imaginative sense of space and place, attempting reconciliation of the universal and the particular, other possible fields with impact on geographical inquiry might be:
Piotr Kropotkin's classic works on anarcho-communism and mutal aid.
Fyodor Dostoyevksy's Christian existentialism, poverty and injustice and crossover, postsecular themes explored in all his works, but especially
Crime and Punishment (Dunya refers to "earthly wisdom") and The Karamazov Brothers ('The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor"; ecclesiastical courts; and so on).
Vladimir Soloviev's non-dualistic sophiology and world development projects on a grand, universal scale, with conservative as well as progressive connotations; his
Tale of the Antichrist a case in point, with contemporary resonances with the geopolitics of Putin and Trump post-Brexit.
Lev Tolstoy's juxtaposition of the urban and rural mindsets and lifestyles, with the author's preference for non-dogmatic anarcho-Christian ethics, in Anna Karenina.
I look forward to hearing from you with ideas and suggestions to help me along.
Yours as ever
Justin Beaumont
Bystrov V., Dudnik S. and V. Kamnev (2016) 'Russkaya religioznaya geosofiya: opyt istoriko-filosofskoy rekonstruktsii [Russian religious geosophy: an attempt of
philosophical and historical reconstruction], The Russian Sociological Review, 15(3): 150-72 (in Russian).
Dostoyevsksy, F. M. (1964)
Crime and Punishment, Jessie Coulson (trans.) including background and sources, essays in criticism, George Gibian (ed.), 3rd ed., New York/ London: W. W. Norton & Company.
—(1982)
The Brothers Karamazov, translated with an introduction by David Magarshack, London: Penguin Books.
Keighren, I. M. (2005) 'Geosophy, imagination, and terrae incognitae: exploring the intellectual history of John Kirtland Wright',
Journal of Historical Geography, 31(3): 546–62.
Kropotkin, P. (2014) Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, edited by Will Jonson, Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
—(2015) The Conquest of Bread, reissue issue, Harmondsworth:
Penguin Classics.
McGreevy, P. (1987) 'Imagining the future at Niagara Falls',
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 77(1): 48–62.
Soloviev, V. S. (1900; 2012)
A Story of Anti-Christ, first published 1900, reprinted 2012, Fredericksburg, TX: Kassock Bros. Publishing Co.
Tolstoy, L. (1954)
Anna Karenin, translated by Rosemary Edmonds, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics.
Wright, J. K. (1947) 'Terrae Incognitae: the place of imagination in geography,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 37: 1–15.
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