Editorial: One Hundred Years with and without Kropotkin
Anarchist Studies - ISSN 2633-8270
Volume 31 Number 2 (2023)
Editorial: One Hundred Years with and without Kropotkin
Cord-Christian Casper, Billy Godfrey, Adeline Coignet pages 10-15
DOI: 10.3898/AS.31.2.EDITORIAL
Abstract
This special edition was born of a conference organised to commemorate the centenary year of Kropotkin’s death in 2021. Our discussions there cohered around the relevance of Kropotkin’s revolutionary anarchism, his evolutionary timescales, and his scientific commitments in a world quite unrecognisable from the one he left behind. We asked which of his ideas might require ‘updating’ to be made relevant to our historical conjuncture, or whether it is our image of Kropotkin that ought to be revised. How does his corpus already speak to the interrelated and overlapping crises of the Capitalocene (Moore 2016)? These are the principal questions that guide this issue as well. Our authors variously re-emphasise and reconstruct elements of Kropotkin’s work across the gamut of disciplines to which he turned his hand: philosophy, ecology, evolutionary biology, agriculture, and anarchist praxis.
To cite this article
Cord-Christian Casper, Billy Godfrey, Adeline Coignet (2023) Editorial: One Hundred Years with and without Kropotkin, Anarchist Studies, 31(2), 10-15. https://doi.org/10.3898/AS.31.2.EDITORIAL