Episode 17: Marie Fleming's 'The Geography of Freedom: The Odyssey of Elisée Reclus'

ABC With Danny and Jim

In this episode we discuss Marie Fleming's 'The Geography of Freedom' (Black Rose Books, 1988), a study of anarchist geographer Elisée Reclus who was a key figure in the 19th century movement. We are very grateful that Black Rose provided us with this book to discuss. Black Rose have been publishing alternative, radical works from their base in Montreal since the 1970s, and operate a range of brilliant initiatives, including a pay-what-you-can solidarity e-bookshop. They recently hosted a conference on Peter Kropotkin, inspired by their recent publication of Kropotkin's Siberian diaries. You can watch this event on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/blackrosebooks Keep an eye out for their new website, which will stress digital availability and access to many titles, with the option to buy a copy. This will be launched soon on their existing domain: https://blackrosebooks.com/. You can also follow Black Rose on Twitter @blackrosebooks For more on Reclus, see the edited works published by PM Press: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=565 and the work of Dr Pascale Siegrist: https://www.ghil.ac.uk/team/our-team/pascale-siegrist. ------------------------ The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv The image in this episode is Reclus' 'Great Globe', designed for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.