Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti-colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875-1914) Federico Ferretti To cite this version: Federico Ferretti. Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti- colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875-1914). Antipode, Wiley, 2016, 48 (3), pp.563-583. 10.1111/anti.12206. halshs-01354176 HAL Id: halshs-01354176 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01354176 Submitted on 17 Aug 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Arcangelo Ghisleri and the ‘right to barbarity’: geography and anti-colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875-1914) Federico Ferretti School of Geography H015 Newman Building - UCD Belfield - Dublin 4, Ireland
[email protected] +353 1 716 8176 Introduction Drawing on the international literature dealing with geography and empire (Godlewska and Smith, 1994; Livingstone, 1993; Driver, 2001; Butlin, Heffernan and Morag, 1995; Kearns, 2009), and on the postcolonial and subaltern critique of the Enlightenment and its universalistic values (Said, 1979; Spivak, 1999; Chakrabarty, 2000; Buck-Morss, 2009), this paper addresses the question of how anti-colonialist and non-Eurocentric thinking was present and played an influential role within some networks of scientists and militants based in Europe during what Eric Hobsbawm called the Age of Empire (1875-1914).