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Transnational Perspectives on French Anarchism (1880-1918):
Biography, Networks and Print Culture
In the past 20 years or so, the history of the anarchist movement has been ‘transnationalised’, through a set of new approaches and methodologies probing the cross-border connections between organisations, groups and individuals and the functioning, fluctuations and limitations of anarchist networks through which activists attempted to make the foundational principle of internationalism a lived reality. This ‘transnational turn’ has involved, among others, a focus on individual mediators, cosmopolitan exile/ migratory settings as places for strategic discussion and exchange, as well as the key role of publications in connecting these communities, sharing information and debating ideas on multiple scales. These themes form the core of this paper, which examines the transnational (and, to a lesser extent, trans-partisan) dimensions of the French anarchist movement between 1880 and 1918, through the history of the French-speaking anarchists exiled in London in the 1880s-90s and the intense transnational networking of the Paris-based editor, writer and publisher Jean Grave.
Constance Bantman, University of Surrey
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