Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the ‘Iberian Tragedy’

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

Geographies of the South. The Study of the Rural Landscape in Portugal: Southern Unicity in Patterns and Changing Functions

“…As I observed earlier, the way in which Reclus interpreted Spanish geographical diversity, in addition to his political proposals in favour of a federation or the regional decentralization of the country, established a precept for the major modern geographers in Spain prior to the Civil War. Authors like Ricardo Macías-Picavea (1847-1899), Juan Dantín-Cereceda (1881-1943), Leonardo Martín-Echeverría (1894-1958 and Gonzalo de Reparaz- Rodríguez (1860Rodríguez ( -1939, among others, contributed many scientific arguments from a naturalistic perspective in favour of regionalization and even federalism , or, in a few cases, Iberism, notably supported by the Gonzalo de Reparaz-Rodríguez, who contrasted the vitality of Atlantic and Mediterranean Spain with the decline of central Spain in his defence of the 'Confederation of Peninsular historic-geographical Regions' (Ferretti and García-Álvarez 2019). Some geographers were deeply involved politically in two of the main substate nationalist movements active during the Spanish Second Republic (1931Republic ( -1939, such as Miquel Santaló (1887Santaló ( -1962 in Catalan nationalism (García-Ramón and Nogué 1994;Hernando 2000) and Ramón Otero-Pedrayo (1888 in Galician nationalism (García-Álvarez 1998(García-Álvarez , 2003.…”

Fragments of an anti‐fascist geography: Interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power

“…This, Blencowe suggests, necessitates a confrontation with the Western capitalist modernity itself, demanding a distancing from the territoriality of capitalism's spatial aesthetic that fascism takes to its extreme conclusion. Relatedly, Ferretti and García‐Álvares's () study of Gonzalo de Reparaz Baez, a Spanish geographer who turned to anarchism during 1930s anti‐fascist struggles, explores how Reparaz Baez realised how hierarchically imposed demarcations of space can buttress a shift towards fascism. This implicates the state itself in the spatio‐ideological architectures that feed the far right and resonates with the centrality of place that others have identified in the dynamics of contentious politics (Nicholls, ).…”