Geographies of internationalism: radical development and critical geopolitics from the Northeast of Brazil Federico Ferretti To cite this version: Federico Ferretti. Geographies of internationalism: radical development and critical geopolitics from the Northeast of Brazil. Political Geography, Elsevier, 2018. hal-01792726 HAL Id: hal-01792726 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01792726 Submitted on 15 May 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Geographies of internationalism: radical development and critical geopolitics from the Northeast of Brazil Federico Ferretti
[email protected] Abstract This paper addresses the international networks of three Brazilian geographers who were exiled and persecuted after the establishment of a military dictatorship in Brazil in 1964 — Josué de Castro (1908-1973), Milton Santos (1926-2001) and Manuel Correia de Andrade (1922-2007) — whose works had an impact in the international field of critical scholarship in geography and development studies, which remains underplayed in present-day scholarship. Addressing for the first time their unpublished correspondence, whose inventory is ongoing in Brazilian archives, I reconstruct their international work, especially focusing on its constraints, to engage with recent debates on the geographies of internationalism and on international agencies problematizing the concepts of ‘international geographies’ and ‘internationality’ of scientific life.