Keywords
Anarchism, Argentina, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Nature, Science, Spain, Utopias
Abstract
This article uses a detailed analysis of ideas about nature and science in the utopian works of Spanish anarchist Ricardo Mella and Argentine anarchist Pierre Quiroule, separated by roughly twenty-five years and over five thousand miles, to explore what is often called the “localization” of anarchist ideology. Rather than search for differences in their ideas that stem from some sort of quintessential Argentine or Spanish—or on a more granular level porteño or barcelonés—identity, I examine how these two authors took ideas from a shared anarchist imaginary and connected them to local events to make them relevant to themselves and their readers.
Recommended Citation
Wu, Philip J. (2025) "Making Sense of Anarchism: Science, Nature, and the Local in the Utopias of Ricardo Mella and Pierre Quiroule," Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal: 6 (1), 159-192. https://works.swarthmore.edu/suhj/vol6/iss1/7
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