This late work turns the history of geography toward the mechanisms by which a discipline remembers and forgets its own practitioners. Gómez Mendoza reconstructs the double invisibility of women geographers and educators affected by gendered exclusion and Francoist repression, showing that disciplinary history is itself an epistemic field structured by selection, silence and retrospective recovery. The article’s theoretical importance lies in refusing the presumed neutrality of disciplinary genealogy: what later appears as canonical geographical knowledge is partly the result of political institutions deciding who can teach, publish, remain visible and transmit methods. Methodologically, case reconstruction becomes a way to recover alternative geographical sensibilities concerned with nature, resource protection, pedagogy and peaceful social relations. The bridge to feminist epistemology and history of science is direct: the archive is not a passive store of disciplinary memory but a political infrastructure whose omissions influence what a field subsequently understands as its own intellectual tradition.
