 Canonization and decanonization in the Brazilian history of geography 
The aim of this paper is to explore the role of translations in a peripheral country. After having analysed geographical journals such as Boletim Geográfico and GEOgraphia, I suggest that translating academic articles became a consistent practice (although unconscious) among Brazilian geographers from the first university courses in the 1930s to present time. This paper studies the translation into Portuguese of the work of French geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache that circulated in Brazil between 1943 to 2020. Translation studies are useful to show how translations can improve our knowledge of human sciences. After reviewing how Vidal de la Blache and other classic authors have been considered by the historiography of geography, I concluded that translations have had a key role in the process of “canonization” (1943–1999) and “decanonization” (1999–2020) of Vidal de la Blache in Brazil.