Pierre Monbeig and the Formation of Geography in Brazil (1925-1957)

Geohistory of Knowledge, Intellectual History and the Insertion of Brazilian Geography into the World-Science

Authors

  • Larissa Lira Federal University of Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2020.i9.03

Keywords:

Contextualisation, Geohistory of Knowledge, History of Geography, Pierre Monbeig, Brazil, Circulation of Knowledge, Space

Abstract

This paper aims to present the exemplarity of an intellectual meeting between a French intellectual, trained in history and geography at the Sorbonne, France (before spending time in Spain during the beginning of his doctorate), and the “Brazilian terrain”. From his training to his work as a university professor in Brazil, what I want to characterize is a transnational intellectual context in the domain of the history of science, using geographical reasoning as a reference. However, before becoming aware of these intellectual processes, it should be said that at the base of this context lies the Brazilian space. This kind of reasoning as a proposed methodology is named here the geohistory of knowledge. In this paper, I seek to present this methodology and its theoretical and empirical results, focusing on how the construction of contextualization can be related to space.

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Published

2020-12-19

How to Cite

Lira, Larissa. 2020. “Pierre Monbeig and the Formation of Geography in Brazil (1925-1957): Geohistory of Knowledge, Intellectual History and the Insertion of Brazilian Geography into the World-Science”. Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, no. 9 (December). https://doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2020.i9.03.