Una mirada a la geografía política brasileña: conversación con el geógrafo Wagner Costa Ribeiro

History and philosophy of geography II: Rediscovering individuals, fostering interdisciplinarity and renegotiating the ‘margins’

“…Scholarship in Spanish and Portuguese from Latin America is continuing to reappropriate critically histories of geography through the translation of 'classical' authors whose texts are analysed to discuss political uses of the past (G Ribeiro, 2019) or to find insights for writing histories of geography adopting cultural perspectives (Pedrosa and Seemann, 2020). This includes the continuing rediscovery of critical traditions within Brazilian geography (Kuri and Sanchez, 2020;JRS Ribeiro, 2020). In the principal South American journal dedicated to the history of geography, Terra Brasilis, Rafael Augusto Andrade Gomes summarises these tendencies outlining the need for writing plural disciplinary histories which are cognizant of Latin American specificities, drawing upon the idea of a 'mestizo geography' as discussed by Amália Inés Geraiges de Lemos (Gomes, 2019;Lemos, 2018).…”