This collective book is the result of two symposia organised by the Commission History of Geography of the International Geographical Union in July 2017. These sessions took place at the occasion of the 17th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, in the suggestive location of the Praia Vermelha Campus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with, respectively, the titles of “Geography as an international science” and “Critical, radical and postcolonial geographies and cartographies from early approaches to present-day debates”. These sessions were attended by scholars from Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, USA, Japan, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland and UK, and the successive debates highlighted the existence of different ideas on two big and polysemic words such as internationalism and de(post)colonialism. This introduction does not aim to define these words or explore their genealogies in geographical knowledge, but just to address some general trends and challenges that scholars involved in these circuits, especially historians of geography, are facing when they articulate their investigations with these terms. Among the attendants of these symposia, those who gave their availability to participate in this book were invited by the editors to transform their presentations in chapters, consistently with the politics deployed by the Commission History Geography for fostering international scholarship and increasing the space for the history and philosophy of geography in the academic world and in international literature. The resulting book is divided in two parts, corresponding to two broad problematics that proved anyway to be widely discussed in scholarly debates in the field of historical and critical geographies in the last years, especially under the form of militant wishes. Indeed, for most of us, the problem is not merely to analyse internationality or decoloniality in geography: what we want is to internationalise and decolonise our discipline, with all the possible challenges and contradictions annexed, as follows.
Decolonising and Internationalising Geography: Essays in the History of Contested Science
F. Ferretti;
2020
Abstract
This collective book is the result of two symposia organised by the Commission History of Geography of the International Geographical Union in July 2017. These sessions took place at the occasion of the 17th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, in the suggestive location of the Praia Vermelha Campus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with, respectively, the titles of “Geography as an international science” and “Critical, radical and postcolonial geographies and cartographies from early approaches to present-day debates”. These sessions were attended by scholars from Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, USA, Japan, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland and UK, and the successive debates highlighted the existence of different ideas on two big and polysemic words such as internationalism and de(post)colonialism. This introduction does not aim to define these words or explore their genealogies in geographical knowledge, but just to address some general trends and challenges that scholars involved in these circuits, especially historians of geography, are facing when they articulate their investigations with these terms. Among the attendants of these symposia, those who gave their availability to participate in this book were invited by the editors to transform their presentations in chapters, consistently with the politics deployed by the Commission History Geography for fostering international scholarship and increasing the space for the history and philosophy of geography in the academic world and in international literature. The resulting book is divided in two parts, corresponding to two broad problematics that proved anyway to be widely discussed in scholarly debates in the field of historical and critical geographies in the last years, especially under the form of militant wishes. Indeed, for most of us, the problem is not merely to analyse internationality or decoloniality in geography: what we want is to internationalise and decolonise our discipline, with all the possible challenges and contradictions annexed, as follows.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
