Political geographies, ‘unfaithful’ translations and anticolonialism_ Ireland in élisée Recluss geography and biography.pdfVIP

Political Geography 59 (2017) 11e23 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Political Geography journal homepage: /locate/polgeo Political geographies, ‘unfaithful’ translations and anticolonialism: Ireland in Elisee Recluss geography and biography Federico Ferretti Human Geography, School of Geography, H015 Newman Building, UCD, Belfi eld, Dublin, 4, Ireland a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper addresses the role of Ireland and Irish republicanism in the geography, biography and political Received 23 August 2015 thinking of the French anarchist geographer Elisee Reclus (1830e1905). This paper sheds new light on Received in revised form the construction of a scientific and political discourse, one which was radically opposed to external and 1 February 2017 internal colonialisms in the Age of Empire, analysing primary sources such as Reclus texts and corre- Accepted 5 February 2017 spondence, along with his transnational networks. It draws on present-day debates on ‘geography and Available online 17 February 2017 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