This article addresses the notion of geopoetics, arguing for a decolonial rediscovery of ideas and practices associated with this concept through authors, narratives and (geo)poetical traditions from the Global South. For this purpose, I analyse a body of narrative work, poetry and archives by Brazilian geographers Mauro Mota and Josué de Castro, inserting their texts into the cultural and environmental contexts of their region, the Northeast of Brazil, which is characterised by ethnic hybridity and a history of anti-colonial insurgency from socially and racially marginalised groups. Extending and putting into relation literature on geopoetics, on the ‘creative (re)turn’ in geography and on the Global South as a notion associated with subaltern spaces and geographies of resistance, I argue for geopoetics as an engaged, activist, cosmopolitan, anti-racist and decolonial field of study, one which has the potential of extending the disciplinary reach of cultural geography. The literary works of these Northeastern geographers provide important contributions for blurring the classical European epistemological divide between nature and culture by addressing ideas on more-than-human hybridity associated with Northeastern environments, as well as indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultural and ethical legacies.

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从干旱到泥泞：重新发现全球南方的地理学和文化融合

本文讨论了地理学的概念，主张通过全球南方的作者，叙事和（地理）诗学传统对这种概念相关的思想和实践进行殖民地重新发现。为此，我分析了巴西地理学家毛罗·莫塔（Mauro Mota）和乔苏·德·卡斯特罗（Josuéde Castro）的大量叙事作品，诗歌和档案，并将其文字插入了巴西东北部地区的文化和环境背景，该地区的特点是种族混杂和来自社会和种族边缘群体的反殖民叛乱历史。我将地理诗学，地理学的“创造性（回归）转折”以及关于全球南方作为与次要空间和抵抗地理相关的概念进行扩展并纳入相关研究，我认为地理学是一个从事，活动家，国际化，反种族主义和殖民主义的研究领域，有可能扩大文化地理学的学科范围。这些东北地理学家的文学作品，通过解决与东北环境有关的非人类混合性以及土著和非洲裔巴西人的文化和伦理传统的思想，为模糊欧洲在自然与文化之间的经典认识论鸿沟做出了重要贡献。