This paper discusses ideas of anarchist (historical) geographies of rivers and seas. It does so by addressing works of early anarchist geographer Lev Ilich Mechnikov (mentioned here with the more known French spelling Léon Metchnikoff) (1838–1888), which lie at the origin of broader ‘Mediterranean metaphors’ comparing the globalising role of oceanic navigation to early Mediterranean connectedness, mainly discussed by Metchnikoff in his key book [Civilisation and Great Historical Rivers]. A close collaborator of Elisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin and a multifarious scholarly talent, Metchnikoff provided contributions that still need to be fully rediscovered. Based on a systematic reading of Metchnikoff's archives and works, I argue that, starting from historical rivers and the early Mediterranean, his ideas on the historical roles that can be possibly (and relationally) played by water-land assemblages can nourish current notions of more-than-wet ontologies and critical geopolitics. Eventually, these ideas provide models for understanding spatialities that are alternative to those of state borders, bounded land and terracentric territorialities, contributing to shape the open and boundless world that is currently conceived by scholarship informed to pluriversal notions of critical Mediterraneanism.

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地中海隐喻和莱昂·梅奇尼科夫的历史大河：水陆混合的无政府主义地理学


本文讨论了无政府主义（历史）河流和海洋地理学的思想。它通过讨论早期无政府主义地理学家列夫·伊里奇·梅奇尼科夫（Lev Ilich Mechnikov）（此处提到的法语拼写为 Léon Metchnikoff）（1838-1888）的作品来实现这一点，这些作品是更广泛的“地中海隐喻”的起源，将海洋航行的全球化作用与早期地中海的连通性，主要由梅奇尼科夫在他的重要著作《文明与历史大河》中讨论。作为 Elisée Reclus 和 Peter Kropotkin 的密切合作者，梅奇尼科夫是一位多才多艺的学术天才，他的贡献仍然需要被充分重新发现。基于对梅奇尼科夫档案和作品的系统阅读，我认为，从历史河流和早期地中海开始，他关于水陆组合可能（和相关地）发挥的历史作用的想法可以滋养当前的更多概念。 -比湿本体论和批判地缘政治。最终，这些想法提供了理解空间性的模型，这些空间性替代了国家边界、有界土地和地心领土的空间性，有助于塑造开放和无边无际的世界，这是目前由了解批判地中海主义多元概念的学者所构想的。