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By proposing a text about the need to teach Milton Santos, the main intention is to show the importance of this black intellectual for critical thinking, not only in Geography, but in any area of knowledge dedicated to understanding the dynamics of territories from of different vectors. It is certainly impossible in this article to cover all of Milton Santos' theory that can be transformed into classroom content. That is why we chose to develop a reflection with the various faces of globalization as its guiding theme, above all, the face of socioeconomic perversity that influences education, racial issues, and the entire territory. To teach the topic of globalization through a critical approach in the classroom, we suggest videos - documentaries and interviews - in which Milton Santos is the protagonist. The videos help to establish the image and corporeality of Milton Santos and contribute to expanding the understanding of his worldview. Finally, we hope to contribute to reinforcing the relevant legacy of this important geographer for the critical understanding of the world in which we live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the role of natural gas in the urban-industrial formation of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina and its association with the regional development process of thissub-national unit. Geographer Armen Mamigonian'stheory supports the study, which uses bibliographical and documentary research as well as an empirical approach to the subject of natural gas. The results show that the current situation of natural gas in Santa Catarina is the result of its consumption in the thermo-intensive manufacturing sector, making it another instrument that strengthens the concentration of production on Santa Catarina's Atlantic coast. Natural gas therefore has dual and contradictory characteristics, as its supply contributes to the process of socio-spatial development but reinforces regional inequality as it is not available in other regions of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Places can be defined and (re)signified by destructive, disruptive and thanatological events that transform them into ruins. Thus, there are expressive horizons of topocide's meanings that can be interpreted by cultural geographers. This essay scrutinizes the ways through which the phenomenon of topocide creates ruined geographies in multiple processes of place flagellation. To do so, it employs an ecophenomenological perspective that aims to expand comprehensions on how this problematic affects the intercorporal and intersubjective entanglements of more-than-human places. It utilizes examples from literary texts, artworks and the author's lived experiences to put into evidence that topocide echoes disruption of creative place-making potentialities in co-vulnerable contexts of being-in-and-ofthe-Earth. It concludes that it is necessary to promote other ways of cohabitation and coexistence in the fractures and fissures amidst the ruins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to address the mission of the Roman Catholic Church in the peripheries and the need for the Church's presence in these places. In this sense, it is necessary to think about a pastoral methodology in line with a Church that must go out to the peripheries in order to reaffirm its evangelizing mission. The general process of urbanization has influenced the emergence of the peripheries and the social configuration that these places have assumed over time. This article exposes and develops this theme based on sociological and geographical foundations about the theme of the periphery, based on specialists on the subject, such as the geographer Milton Santos, and also based on the theological and pastoral proposals of Pope Francis. The main themes developed in this article are: 1) Conceptual and etymological clarifications of the term periphery; 2) The social construction of the peripheries; 3) The periphery as a place of absences and presences; 4) For a Church going forth to the peripheries. The present text is based on a study methodology that has as its main source the bibliographical analysis, of hermeneutic-interpretative nature, a very usual method in the theological field. It will be noted that today, with the exponential growth of peripheral regions, the Church cannot neglect these spaces as "new areopaguses", that is, privileged ecclesial, social and historical places for the proclamation of the Gospel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teacher-training course at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters (FFCL) of the University of São Paulo (USP) played an important role in the constitution of the history of Didactics of Geography in our country. From the select group of professors graduated at USP between the 1930s and the 1960s emerged a generation of brilliant geographers, among them Professor Amélia Americano Domingues de Castro (1920-2020), which we highlight. She graduated in 1940 and was hired in 1942 as a Didactics teacher, becoming a pioneer in the area. She stood out for introducing Jean Piaget's ideas, presenting some answers to questions about methodological orientation concerning the teaching-learning process. Her intellectual production certainly evidences the matrix characterized by the scholastic orientation of that time, which had countless variables, whose versions can still be investigated. In this sense, we present in the "XIV National Meeting of Post-graduation and research in Geography" a fair homage to Professor Amélia, through the disclosure of her legacy that influenced the pedagogical field and the discussions around the teaching of Geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This interview was carried out as part of a research project for scientific initiation (PIBIC/UFPE/CNPq) on the Pernambuco geographer Manuel Correia de Andrade. The teacher interviewed, Thaís Correia de Lourdes Andrade, is, in addition to being the daughter of Manuel Correia de Andrade, a researcher of the life and work of this geographer, having lines of research focused on the following themes: Brazilian Northeast, geographic thinking, environmental issue and regional issue. This semi-structured interview was held in virtual format on July 15, 2021. There were notes on the academic and personal trajectory of Manuel Correia de Andrade within the historical, political and spatial logic of his time, as well as the intellectual cycles in which it was inserted and its main theoretical influences. It can be noted from what was discussed that Manuel Correia de Andrade developed a critical geographic thought, which, fostered by personal events and theoretical influences, problematized the social, economic and territorial tradition of the Northeast in an avant-garde way, ahead of written debates of his time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we present some practices developed by Kollektiv Orangotango a circle of critical geographers and friends in coevolution since the 2000s. In addition to artistic interventions in the public space, critical cartography is a crucial part of our work, we have co-conducted various collective mappings, published educational mapping materials, multilingual manuals, video tutorials and an international collection of contracartography called This Is Not an Atlas. Collective mapping is a process of territorial reflection, awareness, and selforganization, integrating different types of knowledge, every day, traditional, incarnated, and academic, that can flow together and make room for action. Sentimos that it is crucial to integrate a notion of "feelingthink" - feel/think - in what, with reference to Bell Hooks can be called "engaged cartography", that is, a cartography based on dialogue that engages and both "heart and mind". Establishing a spatial perspective on the dialectical relationship between us humans and our environment, we understand collective mapping as a process of geographic literacy in daily life and space of action through dialogue, "mediated by the world". As popular educators, militant researchers, we fight for a collective horizontal production of knowledge through practical interventions and theoretical reflection from the perspective of an educating city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Interpretations from Brazil identify a thematic set of studies and scholars about the country as, territory, nation and formation and national identity, which emerged throughout the nineteenth century. Geography in its trajectory as a modern science has developed important interpretations of Brazil. Objective: The purpose of this article is to bring to the debate studies developed by Brazilian geographic science about Brazil, in order to demonstrate how this science studied the country, as a totality and, also, to reflect on the country from this optic. At the heart of the debate, we raise the question about the ability of Geography to offer interpretations of Brazil. How been, historically, associated with the Government, with intervention processes and territorial planning, and dedicated to the studies of the present time, would be the Geography able to offer interpretations of Brazil or would it be more structured to offer descriptions and explanations of the country or part of it? Methods: Based on surveys and bibliographic and documental analyses, to outline an answer, we discuss the expression "interpretations", and a set of works called "Interpretations of Brazil" and "Brazilian Social Thought". Starting from the contextualization of these ideas about Brazil, we first visited themes, debates and thinkers of the national project, and then we arrived at the interpretations and interpreters of the country. Finally, we focus on Brazilian geography and its country studies, presenting geographers who thought about Brazil, and their main interpretations of the country. Results: 17 scholars of Brazilian geography were highlighted, graduated before and after the constitution of the scientific field of Brazilian geography, with their respective legacies and most important contributions to the interpretation of the country and the intervention of its territory. Conclusion: Geography elaborated valuable studies and interpretations about the country, in essayistic and descriptive formats. After the second half of the 20th century, due to the expansion of scientific protocols, descriptive and explanatory interpretations became dominant in Brazil. This phenomenon can also be observed in other areas of the human sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the birth of lesbian geographies, the work in this field has been mostly developed in Western countries or from the efforts of few lesbian geographers to invite and incorporate works from various countries. There are not enough works from Mexico to enrich this branch of geography both nationally and internationally. Given this situation, it is urgent to make lesbian women and their spatiality more visible. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to address issues related to the lesbofeminist position within the country to initiate this necessary visibility of lesbians in the Mexican territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Given the dearth of theoretical work published by physical geographers on issues around epistemology and method, this paper discusses two main topics: first, some connections between Physical Geography and Philosophy and its relations with scientific thought; then, issues on method, methodology, and hierarchical levels of approach resorted to in the study of geosystems - the guiding perspective in this paper. The study drew on bibliographic research and took into account the Russian-Soviet view on geosystems in order to systematize and problematize the ideas developed by Physical Geography, with emphasis on its theoretical-methodological linkages. Subsequently, the study sought to articulate the historical context of development of general systems theory and geosystems theory, based on their conceptual and methodological particularities. A diachronic examination of the structuring and grounds of geosystems theory allowed establishing conceptual correlations in the field of Physical Geography in particular, considering its backgrounds in the history of scientific thought in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this article is, based on my meetings with Georges Bertrand, to show possibilities of translating the accomplishments of this illustrious geographer. We attribute to BERTRAND (1968) the merit of - based on an epistemological rupture of French Geography - shifting from the "subjective monographic description" to the geosystemic theoretical model with an emphasis on society-nature relations. The Bertrandian proposal considers three elements: the evolution system, the stage reached in relation to the climax, and the general sense of the dynamics (progressive, regressive, stability). This typology is inspired, therefore, by H. ERHART's theory of biorhexistasy. Our conclusions are explicit in the analysis of landscape dynamics in two landscape units: an in the Amazon River channel and an in the Santo Antônio brook/southwestern State of São Paulo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the work The Oriental Despotism of Karl A. Wittfogel, geographer and Frankfurt School member. The analysis of the book, its intellectual influences and its social context of production shows that Wittfogel uses the Marxist legacy to build a theoretical argument affirming Asiatic societies as essentially despotic. Communism is view as an evolution of despotism face industrial phenomenon. Wittfogel therefore tries to institute an anti-communist Marxism, defending the western world in the cold war context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The works The Countryside (1875/2002), by José de Alencar, The Fifteen (1930/2012), by Rachel de Queiroz, and Dried Lives (1938/2013), by Graciliano Ramos, signal a fertile contribution to the investigation of human--environment relations, raising interdisciplinary imbrications in the representation of the countryside and of the backwoods. In this context, this research aims to investigate, under the method of Discourse Analysis of the French Line and the Ecocritical perspective - which studies the imbrications between Literature and Ecology -, the human-environment relations and the representations of the countryside and of the backwoods that the authors delineate in their respective works, observing the similarities and differences between them, in addition to dialoguing with the human feeling that is awakened in the dialogue with the place, with the environment, with the space and with the territory, in view of the concepts of topophobia (aversion to the physical environment) and topophilia (familiarity or attachment), proposed in 1980 by chinese geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. That said, the discourses present in the novels above, through the crossing of data, demonstrate that the countrysides show an ambivalence of relations with the environment: sometimes topophobic (amidst the scarcity of resources), sometimes topophilic, due to less miserable times. Therefore, Ecocritique is configured as a flag to unveil human-environment relations and is projected as an area of interdisciplinary knowledge, dialoguing with Humanist Geography, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and other related approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the studies of the geographer David Harvey (2014) and of the sociologist Loïc Wacquant (2001), violence would appear to be a key element to analyze the spatial and geographical organization of contemporary metropolises. This violence is intrinsic to capitalist development, which underlies urban expansion, and would be closely tied to the past of each specific context, highlighting the persistence of the exclusionary paradigms that characterized the colonial era. In this perspective, starting from the analytical reading of the novel Passageiro do fim do dia, by Rubens Figueiredo, and through a postcolonial critical approach, this article proposes a reflection on the endocolonial nature of contemporary urban violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geographic knowledge was born together with speeches with a dreamlike content. The imagination, in fact, has found and still finds a special place in the narratives about the Earth and the human experience about it. Responding to the Bachelardian provocation, this article proposes a theoretical discussion about the duty to dream, the need to imagine. For this, through a bibliographic review, the notion of wonder and the contributions of imagination in geographic science are discussed, visiting authors linked to the theory of the imaginary as well as geographers who approach the imagination. We conclude that the duty to dream Geography is vital, since, rich in possibilities, the ability to imagine can be fruitful in several aspects of geographic making, such as writing, the end of dichotomies, dialogue with the arts and projections of future worlds in urban planning and environmental management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Finisterra magazine, founded in 1966, aims to promote scientific dissemination and the dissemination of new research in Geography. The magazine is a fundamental reference for geographers and specialists interested in the study and understanding of geographical phenomena. The new editorial team is committed to continuing the trend of internationalization, accessibility, and visibility of the magazine. In addition, the renewed team will carefully supervise the evaluation and review processes of submitted manuscripts, ensuring the application of rigorous quality criteria. The magazine remains open to the research world to disseminate knowledge and scientific advances related to environmental, social, and territorial issues. [Extracted from the article]

This article aims to compose an analytical framework about the production of contemporary Brazilian geographers who have the indigenous theme as one of their central aspects, based on the research and data collection in texts and articles produced on this theme from 2004 to 2016, in congresses in this area. We work with the texts of the "Encontro Nacional de Geógrafos (ENG)" and the "Simpósio Internacional de Geografia Agrária (SINGA)", from which we organize quantitative data, in addition to analyzing which concepts and theoretical-methodological perspectives Brazilian geography has been addressing these issues. We identified an increase in production on indigenous themes in geography, but we highlight the need for greater convergence between studies in this area. This text constitutes a starting point in the sense of knowing and making visible the geographical productions in Brazil in the face of indigenous themes, as well as the protagonism and acting of geographers in this field in the last decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, decolonial thought has asserted itself as an important approach in Brazilian geographical science. In order to contribute to this contemporary discussion, the article identifies a group of intellectuals whose concerns and reflections have somehow approached the problems currently addressed by the "epistemologies of the South", defining the strand here metaphorically named "geographies of the South". After a brief characterization of the main attributes of this strand, they are identified in the works of some important Brazilian geographers, with emphasis being placed on Milton Santos, an author whose decentralized, transcalar and geographically attuned thought has a lot to contribute to the understanding of the "global South" in the current period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the publication of the Portuguese translation of O Homem e a Terra: natureza da realidade geográfica, by French geographer Éric Dardel, in 2011, the book has had a rapid diffusion among the geographical community. The multiple philosophical influences that make up Dardelian geography is one of the most exciting issues opened for investigation. Although his work is recognized as of Heideggerian inspiration, we argue that his phenomenological-existential geography also suffered strong influences of Bachelard's phenomenology of imagination. Furthermore, weal so defend that the principle of "fighting forces", which characterizes the dynamism of Dardel's geographic reality, stems from fundamental notions of Friedrich W. Nietzsche's philosophy, via Bachelard. In the interpretative effort expressed in this work, the encounter between Dardel and Nietzsche has been established, indirectly, through the senses of earth and the will to power. The purpose of this paper is to pursue these clues and links, seeking to enrich the contemporary readings and openings offered by Dardelian geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the history of the city of Sobral, the local urban culture has been controlled by men. We propose to launch a thesis, which we call Symbology of Cultural Eruditism, in its exclusively masculine basis. Cultural eruditism has marks that are left in the urban space by symbols or spatial markings. The theoretical and methodological discussion to be raised is based on the theory of spatial markings, proposed by geographer Vincent Veschambre. According to this theory, it will be taken into account cultural processes which fix actions and intentions in the space by means of concrete objects. Allied to the spatial markings we will have the theory of symbols and urban symbols in Geography, by Jèrôme Monnet, concepts which are complementary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazilian geography highlights impacts, disputes and conflicts in Brazilian artisanal fisheries. This article aims to understand the conflicts by territory, understood as terrestrial and aquatic, therefore integrate both fishing areas, as well as housing and living communities of fishermen. We analyzed 71 dissertations and theses, defended by geographers between 1982 and 2015, based on the technique of content analysis. In relation to conflicts by territory, highlighted in this article, are mainly related to land issues, tourism, conservation units and real estate speculation. The spatialization of the works shows the differentiated concentration of these conflicts in the Brazilian regions. As a strategy of resistance to territorial conflicts, communities and social movements of fishermen constitute territories of fight, and demand public policies proper to traditional communities and peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the concept of land in a historical and contextual perspective. In this framework, the text dialogues with philosophers, historians, sociologists and geographers and their relations with rural studies. A didactic-theoretical order exercise was performed, since the notions of rural and, concurrently, agricultural and agrarian are adjectivations that flow from the earth, but are not explicit in their conceptual differences. It is intended, therefore, to understand the land and its relationship with geographic knowledge through interdisciplinary dialogue, aiming at the construction of a research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Important intellectual and reference of Brazilian Marxist Geography, Ruy Moreira, "carioca" geographer, was born in the early 1940s, in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of the Republic, center and symbol of Brazilian modernity and the scene of numerous events and political manifestations of national scope. Almost all its spatial trajectory was spent in the metropolitan environment of Rio. São Paulo, state and city, was also present, especially in its intellectual formation. Of proletarian origin, when he was very young he worked in the service sector in a factory complex in Rio, where his formation and left-wing political activism were rooted, in the trade union movement. The interface between Philosophy, Political Economy, History and Geography is the basis of the structure of thought and argumentation, always focused on Brazil, especially to unveil the geoeconomic and political dynamics that drives Brazilian society. This article seeks to present and explore the spatial trajectory of this geographer, seeking to associate it with the construction of his thinking, as well as to discuss the contribution of his work to Brazilian geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the discussions of the Brazilian thinker Oliveira Vianna (1883-1951) about race and environment in the Brazilian society. It seeks to understand how the author tries to equate the two problems involving a formation of a "developed" and "civilized" Brazilian nation at the beginning of 20th century: the population mostly composed by "inferior race" and the determinations imposed by the degenerating tropical environment. Participating of a series of debates on a national project for Brazil, Vianna saw in the resolution of the race and environment issues a viable way for the country. Believing in "aryan" superiority, the author emphasizes the need to insert in the Brazilian territory a population from Europe. Producing a geographical discourse, the author establishes discussions on the men-environment relationship and makes a proposal of a regional planning for the rational allocation of “aryans types” in the Brazilian natural regions. It is important to understand the Vianna’s geographical discourse because he later influenced a set of geographers who sought to discuss the regional differences and the population in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work is dedicated to propose the existence of a Financial Geography, justifying this assertion through the characterization of what has been discussed in the geographic scope on the subject of finance. Thus, based on bibliographic research, we present some of the approaches adopted by the Brazilian geographers when dedicating themselves to this theme and, in sequence, we detail some of the main works dedicated to the theme. As a result, we verified that the financial aspect has great relevance on the organization of the geographic space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent archaeological research of the Northwest Iberian Peninsula reveals a cultural identity during the Iron Age that manifests itself in material culture (metallurgy and ceramics), as well as in space organization, settlement implantation in the territory or in social organization. At the time of the Roman conquest, this aspect is recorded by the Greco-Latin historians and geographers in the last years of the first millennium BC, when emphasizing this unit compared to other neighboring areas. Such cultural characteristics will be examined in the light of theories that attribute Galician identity to Celtic culture, based on classical literary and linguistic sources, and which emphasize the „Celtization? of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work shows part of the theme presented at the II Brazilian Congress of Space Organization and XIV Seminar of the Geography Postgraduate Program, Paulista State University, Rio Claro Campus. It is an approach to the complexity of natural systems and how the lack of understanding of their dynamics and functioning can potentiate the consequences of climate change, manifested by extreme events and largely confirmed by scientists. Large-scale landslides in the Região Serrana in 2011, and the effects of coastal erosion in the Região dos Lagos in the state of Rio de Janeiro were emphasized. Both events show that the population and the public authorities are not really concerned about the continuity of the processes already ratified by the latest IPCC reports, and by the work of a large number of geographers. The analysis of risk areas and new public policies that need to be implemented by decision makers increasingly require the important participation of geographers, armed today with a large theoretical, methodological and technological tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to dimension researched areas in Landscape Ecology, landscape units classification systems are developed, which offers scale attributions to the landscape concept. All landscapes show spatial and temporal interactions that characterize them, however the scales understanding, differs substantially between ecologists and geographers. The knowledge and suitable work scale definition are essential to analysis in environmental planning. In Geography, due to well stablished concepts, scale appears not be a significant methodological problem while in Ecology it is a concept that recently has been arose much attention. In this analysis we try to define concepts related to scale in sintetic.eco-geographical landscape studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to discuss the concept of environment present in the theoretical field of Brazilian geography. The emergence of the environmental discourse from the middle of the last century brought to the vocabulary of geographers the concept of medium under the label environment and, although this new designation has become widespread in geographical science, suffered, by contrast, a considerable amount of criticism of his epistemological consistency, as well as their social intentions. What follows, therefore, is an analysis of the presence of this concept in the institutional field of Brazilian geography and the criticism it received from a select range of geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A large number of the publications in History and Teaching of Geography and Cartography (HEGE C), a research unit of the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG ), focus on the history of cartography. Suzanne Daveau first suggested this research theme to the Portuguese geographers. The current bibliographical synthesis gives an account of approximately 100 publications by the researchers of this nucleus, between 2000 and 2010, and covers six thematic groups: 1. Synthesis Cartographic studies; 2. Terrestrial cartography; 3. Nautical cartography; 4. Cartographers and cartographic institutions; 5. Theoretical and methodological contributions; 6. Collections of maps and atlases. Although the inventory classified the texts according to subject, they are also analysed by author, year, location and language of publication. The number and variety of regional and thematic studies show that the history of Portuguese Cartography has taken a place of prominence amongst geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The geographer and anarchist Elisée Reclus is considered as one of the foremost anti colonialists of his time. When analyzing his writings, several authors were unable to ignore the fact that even when he criticized colonization methods, Reclus was nevertheless an advocate of colonization. This paper attempts to review the issue by using archive material and publications and by looking once more at Elisée Reclus’s stance in the second half of the 19th century, together with other critics of colonial events from other political backgrounds. In spite of his criticism and humanism, it is clearly documented that throughout his life, Reclus was a dedicated partisan of colonization, even if his view was a “democratic” and somewhat idealized version.Reclus’s position appears logical when related to commonly held western beliefs, shared by the radical left socialists and anarchists, that the “civilized world” had a mission to fulfill in the rest of the world. The colonial issue can be seen as a major component of the on-going globalization, already at work for many centuries.