Luso-Brazilian geographies? The making of epistemic communities in semi-peripheral academic human geography

Abstract

This article provides the first overview of the dialogues between Brazilian and Portuguese geography throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. We expand current debates about marginal geographies in the growing field of global histories of geography by arguing that the Luso-Brazilian case reveals how international epistemic communities can be formed between semiperipheral geographic communities. We call attention to the role that science funding plays in the making of epistemic communities in semiperipheral spaces where political instability prevails, by allowing the creation of platforms of dialogue between geographic academies, such as international conferences, scientific journals, and research projects.

Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing

“…By examining the evolution of Chinese WRG alongside FAS, it is also hoped that this distinct genealogy contributes to broader reflections on the social and geo-historical settings of geographical knowledge production (Paiva and Oliveira, 2020). The real or imagined ‘needs’ of constituencies outside academic institutions have strongly shaped the contours, contents and boundaries of Chinese WRG and FAS.…”

Indignation, Civic Virtue, and the Right of Resistance: Critical Geography and Antifascism in Italy

“…Lucio Gambi's handwritten note on a 1970 leaflet signed by four Italian geographers whom he deemed compromised with Fascism (LG,(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)Università di Roma) This paper discusses matters on ethics, prickliness and coherence between means and ends by addressing the case of anti-fascism in the construction of Italian critical geographies, around works of Lucio Gambi (1920Gambi ( -2006, Giuseppe Barbieri (1923Barbieri ( -2004 and the group Geografia Democratica (1974Democratica ( -1981, based on the exploration of new archives including the huge Gambi collection at the Classense Library in Ravenna, whose parts containing correspondence were opened to researchers only after 2018 following Gambi's Will. I extend international literature on geographies of anti-fascism and on the construction of critical and radical geographies from the 1960s-1970s (Barnes and Sheppard 2019;Heynen 2013;Heynen et al 2017), with an emphasis on cultural traditions outside the Anglosphere (Craggs and Neate 2020;Ferretti 2020a;Melgaço 2017;Paiva and Oliveira 2020). This paper also fills lacunas in the international recognition of scholars such as Gambi, whose key works were never translated into English, with few exceptions.…”

Trajectories of translation

“…Geographers have a long history of engaging with translation. Here, we primarily review Anglophone debates although we note rich discussions of translation in Francophone (e.g., Mekdjian, 2017) and Lusophone contexts (e.g., Husseini De Araújo, 2018; Paiva and De Oliveira, 2021), among many others. Our choice to focus on Anglophone debates is pragmatic, shaped by our own positions in US-based Anglophone institutions, our comfort level with search tools that primarily surface Anglophone scholarship, and our research experiences with two major languages of the “Middle East” (and relative inexperience with other linguistic traditions).…”