Book Panel -- A World Without Hunger -- Writing new histories of geography

A World Without Hunger: Josué de Castro and the History of Geography (Liverpool, 2022) by Archie Davies (QMUL), tells an alternative history of twentieth century geographical thought, starting from the absorbing life and work of a radical Brazilian intellectual.

The author will be in discussion with Amber Murrey (Oxford), Luciana Martins (Birkbeck), and Mariana Lamego (UERJ).

Published open access by Liverpool University Press A World Without Hunger is both intellectual history and geographical theory. It tells the story of 20th century geography from a new angle and in new company. It re-reads Josué de Castro's anticolonial, metabolic, humanist geography as the anchor of a utopian practice of freedom: the demand for a world without hunger.

The book spans the history of nutrition, geographical translation, Brazilian modernist art, post-war internationalism, the question of the intellectual, the problem of the region in the Brazilian Northeast, and the birth of political ecology and critical environmental thought.

This event is convened by:

Miles Ogborn (QMUL) and the London Group of Historical Geographers

Sam Halvorsen (QMUL) and the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean

Felix Driver (WHUL) and the Centre for GeoHumanities

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

11 Bedford Square, 11 Bedford Square, London, United Kingdom

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