This article addresses Patrick Geddes’s relationship with geography and visual education by focusing on his collaboration with the network of the anarchist geographers -Elie, -Elis-ee, and Paul Reclus. Drawing on empirical archival research, it contributes to the current debates on geographies of anarchist education and on geographic teaching. The main argument is that the collaboration between Geddes and the Recluses inaugurated specific strategies of multisensorial geographic education that were not limited to the sight, and that questioned and relativized the uniqueness of the

observer’s standpoint through devices like the Hollow Globe. Focusing on

apparatuses like the Outlook Tower’s geographic exposition and the Valley

Section, it shows in which ways Geddes engaged with -Elis-ee Reclus’s critique of representation and geography as a visual discipline.

Key Words : Patrick Geddes, Reclus family, Hollow Globe, visual education, teaching of geography.

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