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New Publication Celebrates Years of Collaboration with Latin American Geographers

'Building Dialogue Across Borders' is a recent publication and wider research initiative that brings together several years of collaborative work on mentorship, translation and dialogue between Latin American and Anglophone geographers.

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Building Dialogue Across Borders: New Publication Celebrates Years of Collaboration with Latin American Geographers

A new collection published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, co-edited by Professor Sam Halvorsen (Geography, QMUL) and an international team of colleagues, brings together several years of collaborative work to strengthen dialogue between Latin American and Anglophone geography.

Entitled Geography in the World, Part 4: Towards Latin American Dialogues, the collection features six contributions exploring the rich intellectual traditions of Latin American geography and their potential to reshape wider geographical debates. It also addresses persistent inequalities in global academic publishing, particularly the dominance of English and the barriers faced by scholars working across different languages and academic traditions.

The publication forms part of a wider initiative developed through the Royal Geographical Society's Latin American Geographies Research Group, chaired by Halvorsen. Supported by British Academy funding, this work has included international writing workshops, mentoring and collaborative editorial activities involving researchers across Latin America and beyond.

An important outcome is a new practical guide to publishing across languages and borders, available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Together, these initiatives aim not simply to increase the visibility of Latin American scholarship in English-language journals, but to foster more reciprocal intellectual exchanges and challenge existing hierarchies of geographical knowledge.

Read the collection:
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70100

Publishing across languages and borders – multilingual guides:
https://www.rgs.org/research/research-publications/guides-for-researchers/working-between-anglophone-and-latin-american-geographies

 

 

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