Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations

Neate, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-1578 (2022) Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12 (3). pp. 467-469. ISSN 2043-8206

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Abstract

In his translator's introduction to For a New Geography Archie Davies highlights the many guises of Milton Santos – from powerhouse of Brazilian geography, through to radical geographer of international standing. However, my engagement with Santos falls into another category: ‘the English-language Milton Santos, a much more fragmented, uncertain and emergent figure’ (Davies, 2021). Santos has certainly been talked about and written about more widely in English-language settings over the past few years (see Davies, 2021; Ferretti, 2020; Ferretti and Viotto Pedrosa, 2018; Melgaço, 2017). However, I was particularly curious to engage with this new translation as it contributes to a wider push to diversify and decolonise the histories of geography, which have tended to reinforce Anglo-American hegemony.