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SUMMARY:Other Radical Traditions:  Brazilian geographers between exile and
  military dictatorship - Federico Ferretti
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CONTACT:Charlotte Lemanski
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, scholars have started to write the internati
 onal history of the movement called "Radical Geography" that arose around 
 journals such as Antipode from the 1960s-1970s. While one of the declared 
 aims of these authors is to overtake Euro- and Anglo-centric readings of t
 his phenomenon\, this task seems far from being fully accomplished\, given
  that most of the latest contributions address cases from the Anglosphere\
 , especially from North-America. My ongoing reserach project on Brazilian 
 and Latin American critical and radical geographies extends this body of s
 cholarship and puts it in relation with a burgeoning literature on geograp
 hy and decoloniality\, often inspired by authors akin to the Latin America
 n "decolonial turn". I do this by addressing multilingual works\, archives
  and networks of a circuit of Brazilian geographers who were exiled or var
 iously persecuted by the military dictatorship that ruled their country be
 tween 1964 and 1985. At that time\, they played influential but still negl
 ected roles in inspiring critical and radical scholarship worldwide\, than
 ks also to their exile experiences and their multilingualism. My main argu
 ment is that these scholars anticipated some aspects of current debates on
  the decolonisation of social sciences such as the critique of Northern re
 cipes in development studies\, the engagement with non-European cultures l
 ike those of indigenous and Afro-descendants\, and the need for a more plu
 ralist and cosmopolitan geography\, one which can connect scholarship and 
 grassroots mobilisations
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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