How does anarchist geography differ from other geographies? (Essay Sample)

Student’s Name: Institution: Professor: Course: Date: How does anarchist geography differ from other geographies? Anarchist societies, is a society that operate independently of authority, have always existed but have been buried beneath the weight of the state, its bureaucracy, capitalism, privilege, injustices, nationalism, suicidal allegiances, religious divisions, and their superstitious secessionism. Anarchism is not a hypothetical vision of a future society; rather, it is a description of a form of human organization founded in the reality of daily life that coexists with and resists the prevailing authoritarian impulses in our time. Geography and anarchism have a complicated history, with high points of intense intellectual involvement and low points of ambivalence and contempt. This essay traces the history of anarchist geographies back to the Enlightenment, when anarchism first emerged as a separate political doctrine. At the end of the 19th century, Élisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin, who had a liberatory vision for geography despite the discipline's fascination with imperialism at the time, saw a growth in the interaction of geographers with anarchism. While there is a long history of anarchist geographies, albeit one that is fragmented and historically diffuse, there hasn't been much discussion of the idea that pedagogical issues have a lot of potential to ignite a more emancipatory politics (Wineburg, Sam. Et, al 2018) The relationship between anarchist geographies and pedagogy has, to date, been at best sporadic, with some notable recent exceptions, where geographers have offered extremely significant interventions that assist us think through the anarchist and independent spaces that can be procured in our teaching experiences. There are two major reasons why this incompleteness is unexpected. First, anarchism more generally views education as the main arena for protest and transgression. The existence of two anarchists provided late twentieth-century radical geographers and their critical successors with a unique point of reference and commemoration in the geographical canon given that most late nineteenth-century geography—when the modern discipline was established in Europe and North America—had been blatantly reactionary and variously linked to imperial, racist, or organicist thought. But as The Anarchist Roots of Geography points out, anarchism has a history of being marginalized. For instance, few textbooks on the development of geographical theory go much beyond brief mentions of those key figures. Even though all anarchists look forward to a peaceful and non-violent world, there is ambiguity in the anarchist tradition towards violence. The majority of anarchist operations throughout history and into the present have been nonviolent, although the history of anarchism does contain instances of violent engagement, particularly during the "propaganda of thedeed" era of the late 19th century. Anarchism was particularly misrepresented in the public eye at the height of the "propag...