Anarchist geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the "Iberian Tragedy"

Ferretti, Federico; García Álvarez, Jacobo

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Anarchist geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the "Iberian Tragedy"

dc.affiliation.area	UC3M. Área de Geografía	es
dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Humanidades: Historia, Geografía y Arte	es
dc.contributor.author	Ferretti, Federico
dc.contributor.author	García Álvarez, Jacobo
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-13T15:38:49Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-13T15:38:49Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	This paper addresses an early case in critical and anarchist geopolitics by analysing a body of work from Spanish geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez (1860–1939). After reconstructing the complex and contradictory figure of Reparaz, a scholar and activist who oscillated between very different political positions in his especially long and productive career, we focus on the geostrategic writings he produced for the anarchist journals, CNT, Fragua Social and Solidaridad Obrera during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. Our argument is twofold. First, in the ideological wanderings of Reparaz, it is possible to identify some elements of coherence around the principles of Iberism, Federalism and Africanism as produced by the Spanish culture of that time. Second, the works he produced for the anarchist press in the last part of his life can provide important insights for present-day scholarship on critical, radical and anarchist geopolitics, especially on what an ‘anarchist geopolitics’ might look like and which ways it can contribute to the largely debated problem of exiting the ‘territorial trap’. The case we present contributes to these debates by showing that an anarchist engagement with ‘geopolitics’, a term that Reparaz used some times at the end of his career, might draw on challenging clashes of civilization and ‘pure’ identities, on questioning statist and administrative frameworks of analysis and on focusing more on grassroots activism than on providing advice for state strategies.	es
dc.format.extent	28	es
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Geopolitics, Vol. 24, N.4 (2019), pp. 944-968	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1398143
dc.identifier.issn	1465-0045
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	944	es
dc.identifier.publicationissue	4	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	968	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Geopolitics	es
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	24	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35093
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000028689
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Routledge	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Política	es
dc.subject.other	Reparaz	es
dc.subject.other	Spanish Africanism	es
dc.subject.other	Iberism	es
dc.subject.other	Federalism	es
dc.subject.other	Anarchist Geopolitics	es
dc.title	Anarchist geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the "Iberian Tragedy"	es
dc.type	research article	*
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