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Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian
intellectuals of the twentieth century Beatriz Nascimento
(1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader
in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker
whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics,
and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora.
Her powerful voice still resonates today, reflecting a deep
commitment to political organizing, revisionist historiography, and
the lived experience of Black women. The Dialectic Is in the Sea is
the first English-language collection of writings by this vitally
important figure in the global tradition of Black radical thought.
The Dialectic Is in the Sea traces the development of
Nascimento’s thought across the decades of her activism and
writing, covering topics such as the Black woman, race and
Brazilian society, Black freedom, and Black aesthetics and
spirituality. Incisive introductory and analytical essays provide
key insights into the political and historical context of
Nascimento’s work. This engaging collection includes an essay by
Bethânia Gomes, Nascimento’s only daughter, who shares
illuminating and uniquely personal insights into her mother’s
life and career.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the
Opening the Future project with COPIM. Drawing on the rich personal
archive of the geographer Josue de Castro, this book tells a new
history of geography by following one of the twentieth century's
most influential and creative Brazilian intellectuals from the
estuarine city of Recife to the halls of the UN, the chambers of
Brasilia, and exile amid the political fervour of the universities
of Paris in 1968. This is the first English language book on the
absorbing life of Josue de Castro. It follows modern anticolonial
geographical thought in formation, re-reading Castro's metabolic,
humanist geography as the anchor of a utopian practice of freedom:
the demand for a world without hunger. Starting from Castro's life
and work, the book offers new takes on the history of nutrition,
translation in geography, Brazilian modernist art and practice in
post-war internationalism, the radical geographical intellectual,
the problem of the region in the Brazilian Northeast, and the birth
of political ecology and critical environmental thought. At once a
biographical intellectual history and a work of geographical
theory, this innovative book tells the story of 20th century
geography from a new angle and in new company.
For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is
a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the
emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major
interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian
public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of
space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought,
For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography’s
past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of
action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of
modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique
of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as
a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical
geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a
methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel
theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short,
both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from
within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from
outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades
into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing
a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become
detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought.
For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving
in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative
geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it
takes its place in the canonical works of critical
geography.Â
Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian
intellectuals of the twentieth century Beatriz Nascimento
(1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader
in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker
whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics,
and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora.
Her powerful voice still resonates today, reflecting a deep
commitment to political organizing, revisionist historiography, and
the lived experience of Black women. The Dialectic Is in the Sea is
the first English-language collection of writings by this vitally
important figure in the global tradition of Black radical thought.
The Dialectic Is in the Sea traces the development of
Nascimento’s thought across the decades of her activism and
writing, covering topics such as the Black woman, race and
Brazilian society, Black freedom, and Black aesthetics and
spirituality. Incisive introductory and analytical essays provide
key insights into the political and historical context of
Nascimento’s work. This engaging collection includes an essay by
Bethânia Gomes, Nascimento’s only daughter, who shares
illuminating and uniquely personal insights into her mother’s
life and career.
For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is
a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the
emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926-2001), as a major
interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian
public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of
space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought,
For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past
and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action
and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern
geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the
shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern
science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he
sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for
geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories
to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the
Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic
critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical
geography has developed in the past four decades into a
heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set
of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached
from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a
New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in
English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical
traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place
in the canonical works of critical geography.
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