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In this article, we are going to present the analytical scheme proposed by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, in “Capitalism in debate: a conversation in critical theory”, seeking to articulate the perspective to the reflection on the process of production and development of geographic space. The methodology of this paper consists in a brief presentation of the central ideas in the book focused, then we turn to authors who have dedicated themselves to the geography of capitalism, with the objective of pointing to a possible and, from our point of view, productive dialogue to the understanding of the reproduction of capitalism in geographic space. In this way, this discussion is linked to the insertion of new critical theories in the consolidation of geographic thinking since the opening of this type of constructive dialogue has enabled the development of new epistemological approaches to geography., Neste artigo, apresentaremos o esquema analítico proposto por Nancy Fraser e Rahel Jaeggi, em “Capitalismo em debate: uma conversa na teoria crítica”, procurando articular a perspectiva à reflexão sobre o processo de produção e desenvolvimento do espaço geográfico. A metodologia consiste na apresentação concisa de ideias centrais presentes no livro enfocado para, em seguida, recorrermos a autores que se dedicaram à Geografia do capitalismo, com o objetivo de apontar para um diálogo possível e, do nosso ponto de vista, produtivo ao entendimento da reprodução do capitalismo no espaço geográfico. Dessa forma, essa discussão está ligada à inserção das novas teóricas críticas na consolidação do pensamento geográfico, uma vez que a abertura deste tipo de diálogo construtivo tem possibilitado o desenvolvimento de novas abordagens epistemológicas da geografia.

Cet article présente quelques résultats et discussions de la thèse « Géographie régionale de la frontière Brésil-France : la tension entre régionalisation et internationalisation de l'espace oyapockois », soulignant l'importance de l'analyse régionale pour la recherche contemporaine en géographie. La frontière franco-brésilienne de l’Oyapock est un symbole des contacts politiques entre l’Europe et l’Amérique Latine, représentant aussi une forte dynamique sociale et environnementale. Soumise à des contraintes et opportunités variées, cette frontière révèle la tension entre forces régionales et globales, à plusieurs échelles. Cela implique une crise conduisant à la reconfiguration du concept de « région » et au réajustement de l’organisation de l’espace bilatéral. Dans cet article, on s’intéresse particulièrement à l’existence et à la transformation des relations régionales à partir de l’exemple du terrain de l’Oyapock. Les résultats montrent que la dynamique régionale dans la frontière franco-brésilienne se présente en tant qu’un complexe géographique qui articule la tension entre les intérêts de différents acteurs, groupes sociaux et échelles. Ils sont aussi révélateurs de la puissance de la géographie régionale pour établir des dialogues contemporains entre l’épistémologie de la science géographique et l’expérience de terrain, mettant en rapport les dimensions physiques, humaines, historiques, politiques et quotidiennes qui sont présentes dans les multiples relations hommes-milieux. Este artigo apresenta alguns resultados e discussões da tese "Geografia regional da fronteira Brasil-França: a tensão entre regionalização e internacionalização da área de Oyapock", enfatizando a importância da análise regional para a pesquisa contemporânea em geografia. Os resultados mostram que as relações regionais na fronteira franco-brasileira se apresentam enquanto um “complexo geográfico” que articula os interesses de diferentes atores, grupos sociais e escalas. Eles são também reveladores da potência apontada pela Geografia Regional para estabelecer diálogos contemporâneos entre a epistemologia da ciência geográfica e as experiências de campo, colocando em relação dimensões físicas, humanas, históricas, políticas e cotidianas que estão presentes na multiplicidade de relações socioespaciais. This article presents some results and discussions of the thesis "Regional geography of the Brazil-France border: the tension between regionalization and internationalization of the Oyapock area", emphasizing the importance of regional analysis for contemporary research in geography. The results show that regional relations in the Franco-Brazilian border are present like a "geographical complex" that articulates the interests of different players, social groups and scales. They also reveal the power appointed by the Regional Geography to establish contemporary dialogues between the epistemology of geographical science and fieldwork, putting into relation the physical, human, historical, political and everyday dimensions that are present in the multiplicity of socio-spatial relations.

Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências Resumo: No Brasil, infelizmente são poucas as pesquisas de História do Pensamento Geográfico sobre a Idade Média. Neste contexto, o objetivo dessa tese é compreender as relações entre a geografia e o processo de transformação e de ressignificação do pensamento científico na Baixa Idade Média. A premissa da tese é a de mutação epistemológica, sendo que na Baixa Idade Média é que foram gestados os fundamentos da gênese da ciência moderna. Para isto foram analisadas as contribuições de dois importantes pensadores daquele período, Roberto Grosseteste (1175 ¿ 1253) e Roger Bacon (1210/1215 ¿ 1294), que tinham no seu rol de preocupações a questão gegráfico-espacial, a Natureza, além de discutirem o papel das técnicas e da quantificação no conhecimento da realidade e na evolução do pensamento científico. Como estratégia metodológica analisamos o papel da natureza na relação de entendimento do espaço e também o da produção cartográfica como uma das maiores expressões tanto da relação da técnica com a teoria na resolução de problemas da sociedade medieval, quanto uma expressão que sintetiza a cristalização de ideologias ao mesmo tempo que expressa as transformações no pensamento medieval. Na modernidade, uma das funções da geografia enquanto ciência é construir uma imaginação espacial e o sentido de pertencimento do homem no sistema terra-mundo. Preocupação ontológica e epistemológica que foi gestada na Baixa Idade Média e que encontrou em Immanuel Kant, Johann Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter e Friedrich Ratzel os seus maiores expoentes e matrizes epistêmicas para a aceitação social da Geografia enquanto Ciência Moderna a partir do século XIX em diante Abstract: In Brazil, unfortunately, there is little research on the History of Geographic Thought on the Middle Ages. In this context, the objective of this thesis is to understand the relations between geography and the process of transformation and resignification of scientific thought in the Late Middle Ages. The premise of the thesis is that of epistemological mutation, and in the Late Middle Ages the foundations of the genesis of modern science were laid. For this we analyzed the contributions of two important thinkers of that period, Roberto Grosseteste (1175 ¿ 1253) and Roger Bacon (1210/1215 ¿ 1294), who had in their list of concerns the issue of "gregographic-space", Nature, besides discussing the role of techniques and quantification in knowledge of reality and in the evolution of scientific thought. As a methodological strategy we analyze the role of nature in the relationship of understanding of space and also that of cartographic production as one of the greatest expressions both of the relationship between technique and theory in solving problems of medieval society, as well as an expression that synthesizes the crystallization of ideologies. at the same time it expresses the transformations in medieval thought. In modernity to the geography one of the functions of geography as a science is to construct a spatial imagination and man's sense of belonging in the earth-world system. Ontological and epistemological concern that was born in the Later Middle Ages and found in Immanuel Kant, Johann Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter and Friedrich Ratzel their greatest exponents and epistemic matrices for the social acceptance of Geography as Modern Science from the nineteenth century onwards Doutorado Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial Doutor em Geografia

This article is guided in elucidation of the training bases of geographic thought in the Amazon, considering the regionalist literature of the period prior to the institutionalization of the first courses of geography in Brazil and in the Amazon. Through the geo-historical method, survey and bibliographic analysis, we sought to identify how the classical texts prepared by travelers and explorers who described the Amazon, registering the events in a given space and time in the region, were consolidated as he wrote records of geographic thought in the Amazon. It is evidenced that the foundations that support this time of geography becomes important to understand that such science spear hand of mankind, society-nature, adopting as the dynamics of nature and pillar of society, as well as the historical processes, economic, political and territorial, that correlated, published the evolution of thinking and do geographical by the time of the institutionalization of first degree in geography in the Stare of Amazon, in the Decade of 1980. The regionalist literature evidence to win descriptions marked by empiricism and naturalism, about space and spatiality, and also allows a reading of geographic character that allow the establishment of analytical beacons for this space-time. O presente artigo pauta-se na elucidação das bases de formação do pensamento geográfico no Amazonas, considerando a literatura regionalista do período anterior à institucionalização dos primeiros cursos de geografia no Brasil e no Amazonas. Através do método geo-histórico, levantamento e análise bibliográfica, buscou-se identificar como os textos clássicos elaborados por viajantes e exploradores que descreveram a Amazônia, registrando os eventos num determinado espaço e tempo na região, consolidaram-se como registros fundantes do pensamento geográfico no Amazonas. Evidencia-se assim, que as bases que respaldam este momento da geografia tornam-se importantes para compreender que tal ciência lança mão da relação homem-meio, sociedade-natureza, logo, adotando como pilar as dinâmicas da natureza e da sociedade, bem como os processos históricos, econômicos, políticos e territoriais, que correlacionados, embasaram a evolução do pensar e fazer geográfico, até o momento da institucionalização do primeiro curso superior de geografia no Estado do Amazonas, na década de 1980. A literatura regionalista ganha evidência ao apontar as descrições marcadas pelo empirismo e naturalismo, acerca do espaço e da espacialidade, e ainda, possibilita uma leitura de caráter geográfico que permitem o estabelecimento de balizas analíticas para este espaço-tempo.

Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências Resumo: A postura moderna apoiada em uma racionalidade técnico científica arquitetada pelo Iluminismo, trouxe, sem dúvida, benefícios a humanidade, dentre eles, a revolução científica dos séculos XVI e XVII que se contrapõe concepções doutrinárias e dogmáticas. A ciência moderna por seus propósitos e métodos estabeleceu-se como força capaz de construir uma prática com base num princípio nuclear: a razão, então, instituí a aspiração pelo progresso intelectual e a crença no poder de tal progresso para construção de um sentido de humanidade e civilização. A razão determina a objetividade como chave intelectual do desenvolvimento da nova ciência, como consequência, hegemoniza a concepção de matéria do ponto de vista da mecânica a fim de definir o conhecimento a partir das margens do empirismo que inaugura visão particular da natureza e da realidade onde foi drenada da matéria qualquer princípio animador, a ciência moderna assegura que a natureza foi condicionada a uma disposição servil aos propósitos humanos. A racionalidade técnico científica no sentido de tornar a realidade cognoscível trabalha uma posição materialista cujo dualismo entre mente e matéria é central que ignora a concretude da existência e elimina a subjetividade. Em contraponto, buscamos uma racionalidade que propõe o desenvolvimento da percepção e da cognição não como um aspecto a parte da matéria, mas que reconhece a presença da subjetividade de maneira latente na realidade, visto que, toda organização se estabelece como um sistema complexo de relações capaz de processar e permutar informações externas e internas tratando-se de uma forma de racionalidade imanente, ou seja, um locus de subjetividade, ainda que não consciente. A natureza dentro de uma relação apenas epistemológica deixa de experimentar a si mesma ou dá-se sempre como um fora de si esvaziado de toda sua subjetividade, de toda sua potência auto-gestante. A busca na presente tese é por repensar o conceito de relação com a proposta de adensá-lo em sua força de realização da comum-unidade. Compreendendo a relação como o lugar necessário de todo ser, a necessária relatividade de todo existir aponta a relacionalidade como princípio da realização do real, aponta a centralidade da relação na conformação de uma realidade auto-generativa recolocando o geográfico a partir de uma visão integradora que reconhece o humano como natureza e, portanto, a relação não mais como um instrumento para religar entes, a priori, apartados. Não é somente o entendimento das ações transformativas ou da reflexão das ações sobre a natureza que instituem o sentido de geográfico, voltamos a um sentido de geográfico onde o modo de existir do humano envolve sua surpresa e reflexão sobre sua descoberta de uma grafia que possa lhe comunicar e apresentar sua inteligência de modo que a episteme seja a compreensão a partir de um desejo de familiaridade e de uma filia ao saber onde razão organize a experiência não num sentido puramente prática, isto é, não seja a interferência prática na realidade, e sim, de compreensão daquilo que existe em si Abstract: The modern stance supported by a technical scientific rationality designed by the Enlightenment, has undoubtedly brought benefits to humanity, among them, the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries that opposes doctrinal and dogmatic conceptions. Modern science for its purposes and methods established itself as a force capable of building a practice based on a nuclear principle: reason, then, instituted the aspiration for intellectual progress and the belief in the power of such progress to build a sense of humanity and civilization. The reason determines objectivity as an intellectual key to the development of the new science, as a consequence, hegemonizes the conception of matter from the point of view of mechanics in order to define knowledge from the margins of empiricism that inaugurates a particular view of nature and reality where any animating principle has been drained from matter, modern science ensures that nature has been conditioned to a servile disposition to human purposes. Technical scientific rationality in the sense of making reality knowable works a materialist position whose dualism between mind and matter is central that ignores the concreteness of existence and eliminates subjectivity. In contrast, we seek a rationality that proposes the development of perception and cognition not as an aspect apart from matter, but that recognizes the presence of subjectivity in a latent way in reality, since every organization is established as a complex system of relationships capable of processing and exchanging external and internal information, dealing with an immanent form of rationality, that is, a locus of subjectivity, even if not conscious. Nature within an epistemological relationship fails to experience itself or always gives itself as an outside of itself emptied of all its subjectivity, of all its self-gestating power. The search in the present thesis is to rethink the concept of relationship with the proposal to densify it in its strength of realization of the common-unity. Understanding the relationship as the necessary place of every being, the necessary relativity of all existence points to relationality as a principle of realization, it points to the centrality of the relationship in shaping a self-generative reality, replacing the geographical from an integrating vision that recognizes the human as nature and, therefore, the relationship no longer as an instrument to reconnect entities, a priori, apart. It is not only the understanding of transformative actions or the reflection of actions on nature that establish the sense of geographic, we return to a sense of geographic where the human's way of existence involves his surprise and reflection on his discovery of a spelling that can give him communicate and present your intelligence in such a way that the episteme is the understanding from a desire for familiarity and from a branch to know where reason organize the experience not in a purely practical sense, that is, it is not the practical interference in reality, but a understanding what is in itself Doutorado Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial Doutora em Geografia CAPES 001

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No. of bitstreams: 1 claudino_gs_dr_prud.pdf: 312116551 bytes, checksum: c3180b37da40e2b10b3501c06630f441 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-10-23 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Divers processus ont différencié la trajectoire de la connaissance/pensée que nous concevons aujourd'hui comme géographique. L'histoire humaine révèle que, à différentes époques, l'humain – et son milieu subjectif et matériel – a soutenu des éléments pour la réalisation de caractéristiques qui, unies, donnent corps aux savoirs; et la géographique ne fait pas exception. De plusieurs manières et dans les voies les plus diverses, les géographes de différentes institutions se sont engagés dans l'exercice de la compréhension du savoir géographique. Cette occupation s'est matérialisée et s'est cristallisée, entre autres, sous la forme de mémoires de master et de thèses de doctorat. La présente thèse vise donc à comprendre les études, dans les programmes d'études supérieures brésiliennes, qui se sont tournées vers la pensée et la connaissance géographiques comme objets d'investigation, ce que je comprends cependant comme des études de connaissances. Je considère donc que le savoir est une synthèse de la connaissance et de la pensée. Dans cet état de fait, j'identifie que l'étude du savoir, en tant qu'objet de la géographie brésilienne, se déroule sous deux dimensions d'analyse: l'une historique, l'autre théorique-conceptuelle-propositionnelle. Un ensemble d'autres thèmes de recherche se concentre dans ces deux dimensions. Les thèses ont été répartis en détail dans ces dimensions et d'autres sous-axes, révélant des auteurs, des objets de recherche, des institutions d'origine et des dates de conclusion. En effet, les auteurs et leurs objets d'analyse respectifs ne sont pas en dehors de l'espace et du temps, puisqu'ils sont les produits d'un héritage historique qui les précède – une fois qu'il y a ce que j'appelle des racines – dont ils sont inextricablement héritiers. Ces racines ont été les moteurs de la naissance des constellations de géographes dont l'identité partage un thème de recherche commun. J'analyse donc une partie de la production académique brésilienne en géographie dans le cadre d'études historiques et épistémologiques sur la connaissance et la pensée géographiques comme un objet considéré sous les notions de racines et constellations et, en même temps, je trouve que de telles études ne devraient pas être menées séparément. À cet égard, je considère que le savoir est une synthèse de la connaissance et de la pensée, élevée à l'état de nervure. Je cherche également à représenter l'avenir par rapport au passé, ce que j'appelle le présent continu du passé à venir des racines constellatoires du savoir. En d'autres termes, il s'agit d'un exercice qui vise à évoquer des choses du passé qui n'ont pas encore été dites, qui peuvent maintenant refaire surface grâce à la recherche, et qui sont connectées à travers les sujets du présent. Ce qui vient se manifeste à l'avenir, c'est-à-dire que de nouveaux sujets-géographes émergeront et feront partie de la pensée géographique. Pour représenter ces « trois temps », je me rends compte et j'essaie de rester dans un état d'avant-goût et d'attente devant l'objet, comme on peut le voir dans la constellation synthèse, qui les unifie tous d'un même ton. Cette thèse, en d'autres termes, est la création et la révélation d'un état d'attente sous une manière de penser qui se dévoile à travers de nervures. Ainsi, je présente et propose une façon de penser plus plastique qui prend en compte la relation entre les superviseurs et les étudiants supervisés, essentielle à l'histoire de la géographie brésilienne et de son état dans la période la plus récente, formant des racines constellatoires du savoir. Processos diversos diferenciaram a trajetória do conhecimento/pensamento que hoje concebemos como geográfico. A história humana revela que, em diversos períodos, o humano – e seu meio subjetivo e material – alicerçou elementos para a efetivação de características que, unidas, dão substância a saberes; e o geográfico não foge à regra. De maneiras distintas e caminhos os mais diversos, geógrafos de diferentes instituições ocuparam-se do exercício de compreensão do saber geográfico. A materialização dessa ocupação cristalizou-se, entre outros resultados, em dissertações e teses. O propósito desta tese, assim, é compreender os estudos, na pós-graduação brasileira, que se voltaram ao pensamento e conhecimento geográfico como objetos de investigação, os quais entendo, contudo, como estudos de saberes. Julgo, portanto, que o saber é uma síntese do conhecer e do pensar. Nesse estado de coisas, identifico que o estudo do saber, na condição de objeto na Geografia brasileira, é investigado por meio de duas dimensões de análise: uma é histórica e outra é teórica-conceitual e propositiva. No interior dessas duas dimensões, concentra-se um conjunto de outros temas de pesquisa. As dissertações e teses foram detalhadamente distribuídas entre essas dimensões e outros subeixos, revelando autores, objetos de pesquisa, instituições onde foram realizadas e datas de quando foram concluídas. Com efeito, os autores e seus respectivos objetos de análise não estão fora do tempo e do espaço, uma vez que são produtos de um patrimônio histórico que os antecede, – pois há o que chamo de raízes – dos quais são inextricavelmente herdeiros. Tais raízes foram propulsoras para o nascimento de constelações de geógrafos que têm como identidade um tema de pesquisa em comum. Analiso, pois, uma parte da produção acadêmica brasileira em Geografia em nível nacional, cuja especificidade são os estudos históricos e epistemológicos do conhecimento e pensamento geográfico na condição de objeto através das noções de raízes e constelações e, ao mesmo tempo, constato que os estudos do conhecer e do pensar geográfico não podem ser investigados separadamente. Nesse sentido, cotejo o saber como uma síntese do conhecer e do pensar, alçado à condição de nervura. Busco, também, representar o devir em relação com o pretérito, o que denomino de presente contínuo do passado vindouro das raízes constelatórias do saber. É, em outros termos, um exercício que procura evocar coisas do passado que ainda não foram ditas, que através da pesquisa podem vir à superfície do hoje, conectando-se através dos sujeitos presentificados. O vindouro é a manifestação do porvir, ou seja, os novos sujeitos-geógrafos que surgirão e passarão a fazer parte do pensamento geográfico. Para representar esses “três tempos”, atribuo e procuro permanecer em estado de prelibação e expectação diante do objeto, conforme poderá ser observado na constelação síntese, que unifica todas em um único tom. A tese, em outros termos, é criação e revelação de um estado de expectativa através de um modo de pensar que se revela através nervuras. Atribuo e proponho, então, um modo de pensar mais plástico, que considera as relações orientador & orientando imprescindíveis à história da Geografia brasileira e seu estado no período mais recente, conformando raízes constelatórias do saber. Diverse processes have differentiated the trajectory of the knowledge/thought that we conceive today as geographic. Human history reveals that, in different periods, the human – and their subjective and material milieu – has underpinned elements for the effectuation of characteristics that, united, give substance to knowledge; and geographic knowledge is no exception. In different manners and in the most diverse paths, geographers from various institutions did engage in the exercise of understanding geographic knowledge. Such occupation came into materialization and crystallized, inter alia, in the form of master's theses and doctoral dissertations. The present doctoral dissertation, therefore, aims to understand the studies, in Brazilian graduate programs, that turned to geographic thought and knowledge as objects of investigation, which I however understand as studies of knowing. I therefore think that knowing is a synthesis of knowledge and thought. In this state of affairs, I identify that the study of knowing, as an object in Brazilian Geography, takes place under two dimensions of analysis: one is historical, and the other is theoretical-conceptual-propositional. A set of other research themes concentrates within these two dimensions. The dissertations and theses were distributed in detail into these dimensions and other sub-axes, revealing authors, research objects, institutions of origin, and dates of conclusion. In effect, the authors and their respective objects of analysis are not outside space and time, since they are products of a historical heritage that precedes them – once there are what I call roots – of which they are inextricably heirs. Such roots were the drivers for the rising of constellations of geographers whose identity underlies a research theme in common. I analyze, therefore, a part of the Brazilian academic work in Geography within the scope of historical and epistemological studies on geographic knowledge and thought as an object considered under the notions of roots and constellations and, at the same time, I discern that such studies should not be investigated on a separate basis. In this regard, I reckon that knowing is a synthesis of knowledge and thought, raised to the condition of ribbing. I also seek to represent the future in relation to the past, what I call the continuous present of the coming past of the constellatory roots of knowledge. In other words, it is an exercise that intends to evoke things from the past yet unsaid, which can now come to the surface through research, and which are connected through the subjects in the present. What is coming manifests in the future, that is, new subject-geographers will emerge and become part of geographic thought. To represent these three periods in time, I realize and attempt to remain in foretaste and expectation regarding the object, as can be seen in the constellatory synthesis, which unifies them all in a single tone. This doctoral dissertation, in other words, is the creation and revelation of a state of expectation through a way of thinking that unfolds by ribbing. Lastly, I feature and propose a more plastic way of thinking that does take into account the advisor-advisee relationship, essential to the history of Brazilian Geography and its state in the most recent period, thus forming constellatory roots of knowledge. FAPESP: 17/18305-3

Submitted by Angela Maria de Oliveira (amolivei@uepg.br) on 2019-05-28T19:24:34Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) TAMIRES REGINA AGUIAR DE OLIVEIRA CESAR.pdf: 10918695 bytes, checksum: 82d0e3e936deb8cc69fd141002966c41 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2019-05-28T19:24:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) TAMIRES REGINA AGUIAR DE OLIVEIRA CESAR.pdf: 10918695 bytes, checksum: 82d0e3e936deb8cc69fd141002966c41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-04-01 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior A minha tese doutoral teve como questão central ‘Como o gênero compõe as trajetórias acadêmicas de pessoas centrais na produção do conhecimento geográfico brasileiro?’. Para conhecer quais eram os (as) pesquisadores (as) centrais no campo científico geográfico brasileiro, e como o gênero era um elemento constituinte de suas trajetórias científicas, necessitei trabalhar com uma metodologia que fosse suficiente para analisar além dos dados quantitativos, mas principalmente os dados qualitativos. Por isto em parceira com o GETE construímos o Observatório da Produção Geográfica Brasileira, que armazenou 17.636 artigos extraídos de 90 periódicos on-line, classificados no triênio 2013-2015. Em um segundo momento filtrei esses dados a partir de um desvio padrão, o qual no final das análises me trouxe o número de 52 pessoas centrais na construção das narrativas da Geografia brasileira. Destes pesquisadores (as), consegui realizar 16 entrevistas (sendo 7 homens e 9 mulheres) analisadas com profundidade. A metodologia de Silva e Silva (2016) possibilitou a compreensão da inteligibilidade do fenômeno. As redes semânticas do discurso masculino ressaltam que os homens mantêm uma estrutura discursiva pouco conectada entre mundo profissional e vida familiar, construindo uma trajetória voltada para o mundo do trabalho científico, secundarizando as relações familiar. Contudo, as redes semânticas do discurso feminino evidenciam que as mulheres apresentam dificuldades na separação do universo acadêmico e familiar, mantendo desta forma, um discurso complexo ao longo de suas trajetórias que nem sempre são de harmonia e sim conflitivas. A tese apresenta que o campo científico se estrutura em relações cotidianas de poder, as quais permanecem organizadas em geometrias de poder. Essa configuração acaba por tensionar as relações dos sujeitos corporificados, e consequentemente a capacidade de influenciar o campo e suas formas de experienciar o fazer científico. My doctorate language has as a central question how foreign-language companies as leaders in the production of Brazilian geographic knowledge? To know which were asphalt main statistics in the constituent of their scientific trajectories, to work the study was necessary to heap than the quantitative data, but mainly the qualitative data. Why the Brazilian Geography Observatory in partnership with the public built, which included 17,636 articles extracted from 90 online journals, classified in the triennium 2013-2015. In a second moment, the number of data of a routing pattern, which is not finalized, is the number of 52 centers in the construction of the narratives of the Brazilian Geography. Of these researchers, I was able to conduct 16 interviews (7 men and 9 women) being analyzed in depth. The methodology of Silva e Silva (2016) made possible an understanding of the intelligibility of the phenomenon. The semantic networks of masculine discourse emphasize that the men maintain a discursive structure little connected between the professional world and the familiar life, constructing a trajectory directed to the world of the scientific work, seconding the familiar relations. However, the semantic networks of feminine discourse show that, as women present difficulties in separating the academic and family universe, maintaining the form, a complex discourse along their trajectories that are not always harmonious, but conflicting. This study was based on power strategies, as they were organized in power geometries. This configuration ends up undergoing the changes of market and, consequently, the capacity to influence the field and its forms of experience in the scientific making.

Orientador: Vicente Eudes Lemos Alves Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências Resumo: O papel do lugar nos debates sobre identidade apresenta uma ambivalência que vai da celebração à condenação. Se de um lado há o entendimento da centralidade dos lugares para a constituição das identidades, de outro lado tem crescido o clamor pela diferença que nos leva à ênfase no não-lugar. Esta ambivalência ganhou novo fôlego após os anos 1990 com a globalização, tanto com a relevância que os movimentos identitários de resistência (étnicos, raciais e de gênero) alcançaram, lutando por seu lugar, enquanto território, quanto com a força que o clamor pelo respeito à diferença e o sentido opressor e colonial da identidade receberam, questionando o papel dos processos de territorialização nos conflitos e na negação da diferença que promovem a captura do Outro pelo Mesmo. No entanto, em vez de enfrentar a questão pela relação identidade-diferença, a deslocamos para o nexo entre consciência-lugar, desfazendo esta associação que dá relevo ao sentido frente ao sem-sentido. A prevalência da consciência é compreendida como um dos instrumentos da razão imperialista colonizadora, eurocêntrica, e por isso é necessário fissurá-la para um outro sentido geográfico de identidade. Mas como significar nossa relação geográfica e sua implicação para a identidade libertando-se das amarras da consciência e dos modelos coloniais de intelecção do ser? Este é o principal questionamento mobilizador da tese, o qual será enfrentado a partir da (1) experiência com os indígenas Payayá, da interlocução com (2) a filosofia de Emmanuel Lévinas e com suas (3) reverberações no pensamento descolonial latino-americano. Os Payayá, cuja historicidade e geograficidade se entrelaçam com a própria constituição colonial, da Bahia e do Brasil, foram aquartelados e oprimidos até o seu desbaratamento, ao ponto de serem declarados extintos pela historiografia e pelos órgãos oficiais brasileiros no século XVIII. Rompendo o silenciamento a que foram compelidos, iniciam um movimento de retomada que tem em Cabeceira do Rio, povoado do município de Utinga (Bahia), seu aqui, enquanto alteridade, permitindo a evasão de si necessária à hospitalidade. Simultaneamente, este lugar também é hostilidade, na disputa que culmina com a conquista do Território Indígena Payayá. As narrativas Payayá provocam deslocamentos na metafenomenologia de Lévinas, a qual nos interpõe a necessidade de romper com as molduras ontológicas. O primado da ética da alteridade, como metafísica, exige atender ao chamado do Outro, um "eis-me aqui" que não se cristaliza no Dito, pelo seu vínculo com a consciência, dando trânsito ao Dizer, em sua verbalidade, abrindo caminho para o sem-sentido e para o incompreensível. Esta filosofia é de uma radicalidade descolonial, e por isso nos permite pensar uma geografia desde a América Latina, na qual os Payayá são esse Outro que fecunda o sentido geográfico da identidade: uma identidade em diástase na qual o lugar é pneuma fundado na ética da alteridade. Embora ele também seja materialidade, o lugar não é objeto, pois implica a insubstancialidade pela qual a identidade não é lógica, mas topológica. Somos lugar não por um ato da consciência, mas por seu sentido ético que possibilita a alteridade na identidade Abstract: The role of place in the debates on identity presents an ambivalence that goes from celebration to condemnation. If on the one hand there is the understanding of the centrality of places for the constitution of identities, on the other hand there has grown the clamor for the difference that leads us to the emphasis on the non-place. This ambivalence gained a new impetus after the 1990s with globalization, both with the relevance that identity resistance movements (ethnic, racial and gender) have achieved, fighting for their place ¿ as territory ¿, as with the strength that crying for respect differences and the oppressive and colonial sense of identity received, questioning the role of the territorialization processes in the conflicts and in the denial of the distinctions that promote the capture of the Other by the Same. However, instead of facing the question of the identity-difference relationship, we move it to the nexus between consciousness-place, undoing this association that gives relevance to sense in the face of the non-sense. The prevalence of consciousness is understood as one of the instruments of the imperialist colonizing reason, Eurocentric, and therefore it is necessary to break it into another geographical sense of identity. But how do we give meaning to our geographical relationship and its implication to identity, freeing ourselves from the bonds of consciousness and the colonial models of the intellection of being? This is the main question that mobilized the thesis, which will be faced (1) from the experience with the Payayá natives and (2) the interlocution with the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and (3) his reverberations in Latin American decolonial thinking. The Payayá, whose historicity and geographicity are intertwined with the colonial constitution of the state of Bahia and Brazil, were quartered and oppressed until its annihilation, to the point of being declared extinct by historiography and official Brazilian organs in the eighteenth century. Breaking the silencing to which they were compelled, they begin a movement of recovery that has its in Cabeceira do Rio, their here, village of the municipality of Utinga (Bahia, Brazil), as alterity, allowing their evasion itself, necessary to the hospitality. Simultaneously, this place is also hostility, in the dispute that culminates with the conquest of the Payayá Indigenous Territory. The Payayá narratives cause displacements in Lévinas¿ metaphenomenology, which interposes us the necessity to break with the ontological frames. The primacy of the ethics of alterity, as metaphysics, demands answering to the call of the Other, a "Here I am" that does not crystallize in the Said, for its bond with the conscience, giving transit to the Saying, in its verbality, paving the way for the non-sense and the incomprehensible. This philosophy is of a decolonial radicality, and therefore allows us to think of a geography from Latin America, in which the Payayá are the Other that fecundates the geographical sense of identity: an identity in translation where the place is pneuma based on the ethics of alterity. Although it is also materiality, the place is not an object, since it implies the insubstantiality by which the identity is not logical, but topological. We are place not by an act of conscience, but by its ethical sense that makes alterity in identity possible Doutorado Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial Doutora em Geografia

En posant le caractère situé des savoirs géographiques, le tournant spatial encourage les géographes et historiens de la géographie à interroger les liens entre notre discipline et son contexte sociétal, en particulier ses liens avec le politique. Associé à une pratique plus fréquente de la réflexivité, il conduit à valoriser les questionnements épistémologiques. Cet article propose de prendre un exemple concret, celui d’Alexander von Humboldt, et d’analyser, à la lumière du tournant spatial, les interactions ou influences réciproques entre le champ du politique et les savoirs géographiques produits par ce géographe. En adoptant une quadruple approche spatiale (par la localisation, les réseaux, les circulations et les schèmes mentaux), il s’agira de montrer en quoi la symbolique politique se distingue de la vision de l’espace élaborée par Humboldt, tout en l’influençant. Cet article se penche plus particulièrement sur un épisode de la carrière humbold­tienne, le voyage russe qu’il réalise en 1829 en Russie et qui est encadré par le tsar Nicolas Ier. L’objectif de cet article est d’illustrer dans quelle mesure le tournant spatial permet une approche renouvelée des travaux d’histoire et d’épistémologie de la géographie. Noticing the fact that all geographical knowledge is essentially located, the spatial turn encourages to question the relationships between our discipline, geography, and its social and political context. Associated with a more regular practice of reflexivity, the cultural turn also reinforces epistemological questions. This article questions a concrete example, using the work and carrier of Alexander von Humboldt and especially analyzing the relationships between political actors and geographical knowledge produced by him. It more precisely questions how the spatial conceptions of Humboldt match, or not, with the political one. The use of the methods and tools of spatial turns allows to compare the geographical representation of Humboldt to the political one and to confront them, showing that the political symbolic may influence Humboldt’s conception of space and territory. We will consider “space” as location, network, circulation and mental schemes. Analysing various materials, such as scientific texts as well as personal correspondences, this paper looks into one specific episode of Humboldt’s life: the scientific journey in Russia made in 1829 under the control of Tsar Nicolas 1st. The aim of this paper is to show how the spatial turn can provide a renewed way to work in the field of history and epistemology of geography.

Geographical knowledge in primary school is shaped according to a variation in three stages : first, the pulsations of present time, fast-moving, whose school curricula and the concerns they have raised, are the visible part ; then the time of each primary-school teacher, in his classroom, with his pupils, driven by his own geographical knowledge, his spatialities and his representations on what is, what was and what could / should be the teaching of Geo at primary school ; finally, there is the "almost motionless" time of a solid, ancient but essential foundation that responds to the needs of each human being to situate himself spatially to inhabit and be-in-the-world. These three temporalities overlap and, like geological layers, are shifting (made up of divergences and convergences, sliding, cracks and faults, outcrops). They therefore coexist while being dissonant and dysfunctional. However, in the classrooms, in primary school, every day that counts the school year, geography is done. It is therefore the enigma of this coexistence that this thesis proposes to solve. Each of the two volumes (Positives and Negatives) is organized in three movements (three books and three corpus) which can be read autonomously, but it is the whole device designed as a laboratory that allows the outcome of the plot. Material drawn from a participative observation in a Year-5 class (CM1) in Paris, interviews and a survey in the world of teacher blogs. This apparatus has been shaped and elaborated over time of the thesis and delimits the contours an area of social sciences research hybridizing the history and epistemology of geography, methods of anthropology, while mobilizing knowledge related to geography, history, graphic and plastic arts, literature or philosophy. I thus show that it is possible to study knowledge as a process and not to think of it as school knowledge already assigned to it, but as knowledge combining making and speeches that unfold in a whole gestures, words, images and imaginations, routines and techniques. By proposing an Ethnography of geographical knowledge at school, I wanted to build a research method that deviates from the work usually carried out in the field of didactic in order to suggest a different analysis on the knowledge passed and consequently also on what the latter represent for the community of geographers. By proposing to divide the geo prefix and the graphic suffix into two distinct words and to connect them by a dash, I identify by a graphical and semantic process the elementary contemporary of geography, which I thus define as elementary geo-graphies., Les savoirs géographiques à l’école élémentaire se façonnent selon une variation en trois temps : d’abord les pulsations du contemporain, rapides et changeantes, dont les programmes et les inquiétudes qu’ils suscitent sont la partie visible ; puis le temps de chaque enseignant, dans sa classe, avec ses élèves, porté par ses propres savoirs géographiques, ses spatialités et ses représentations sur ce qu’est, ce qu’a été et ce que pourrait / devrait être l’enseignement de la géo à l’école ; enfin il y a le temps « quasi immobile » d’une solide, lointaine, mais essentielle fondation qui répond aux besoins de chaque être humain de se situer spatialement pour habiter et être-au-monde. Ces trois temporalités se recouvrent et, telles des couches géologiques, sont mouvantes (faites de divergences et de convergences, de glissements, de fissures et de failles, d’affleurements). Elles coexistent donc tout en étant parfois dissonantes et dysfonctionnantes. Pourtant, dans les classes, à l’école élémentaire, tous les jours que compte l’année scolaire, on fait de la géo-graphie. C’est donc l’énigme de cette coexistence que cette thèse se propose de résoudre.Chacun des deux tomes (Positifs et Négatifs) est organisé en trois mouvements (trois livres et trois corpus) qui peuvent être lus de manière autonome. Mais c’est l’ensemble du dispositif, conçu comme un laboratoire, qui permet le dénouement de l’intrigue. Fondé sur une observation participante de deux années dans une classe de CM1, sur des entretiens et une enquête dans l’univers des blogs tenus par des enseignants, ce dispositif fut élaboré au fil du temps de la thèse et délimite les contours d’un espace de recherche en sciences sociales, hybridant l’histoire et l’épistémologie de la géographie, les méthodes de l’anthropologie tout en mobilisant des savoirs relevant de la géographie, de l’histoire, des arts graphiques et plastiques, de la littérature ou de la philosophie. Je montre ainsi qu’il est possible d’étudier des savoirs comme des processus et de ne pas penser ceux-ci comme des savoirs scolaires déjà-là, assignés, mais comme des savoirs mêlant des faire et des dire qui se déploient dans un ensemble de gestes, de mots, d’images et d’imaginaires, de routines et de techniques. En proposant une Ethnographie des savoirs géographiques à l’école, j’ai voulu construire une méthode de recherche qui s’écarte des travaux habituellement menés dans le champ de la didactique disciplinaire pour envisager une analyse différente sur les savoirs transmis et par conséquent aussi sur ce que ces derniers représentent pour la communauté des géographes. Segmenter en deux mots distincts le préfixe geo et le suffixe graphie et les relier par un tiret est ainsi une manière d’identifier, par un procédé graphique et sémantique, l’élémentaire contemporain de la géographie que je définis donc comme des géo-graphies élémentaires.

La géographie s’est dotée du concept de territorialité pour appréhender les tenants et aboutissants de nos relations au territoire. Or, ce concept est si populaire, notamment au su de leurs rapides transformations et de leurs conséquences, qu’il demeure usuellement peu réfléchi et rarement employé de manière précise ou appropriée, ce qui mine sa vocation identitaire et sa fonction relationnelle. C’est pourquoi, après avoir rappelé et analysé les six définitions-types de ce concept clé qui prévalent en géographie humaine, les vertus et limites des affinements récents de Klauser et Murphy en interrogeant tout spécialement les types d’identité et d’imaginaire à l’œuvre, puis les rôles référentiels prêtés au territoire et à l’échelle, cet article propose une conception culturelle et une conceptualisation tripartite de ce concept pour démontrer tout son potentiel heuristique et, par ricochet, pour mieux comprendre et composer avec notre condition territoriale. Geography has developed the concept of territoriality to apprehend the ins and outs of our relations to territory. However, this concept is so popular, particularly since the fast transformations of those relations and their consequences, that it is usually not very well thought out and precisely or properly used, a troubling fact that undermines its identity vocation and relational function. This is why, after the analysis of the six main geographical definitions of that concept that stand out after a vast recension exploring the identity and imaginary’s types at work and the referential roles given to territory and scale, and after confronting them with the recent refinements made by Klauser and Murphy, this article proposes a conceptual conception and a tripartite conceptualization of that concept to demonstrate its full heuristic potential and, in turn, to better understand and deal with our territorial condition.

Le colloque de Cerisy organisé par le laboratoire ENeC en 2014 est l’occasion de réaliser une analyse rétrospective de l’ensemble des titres parus dans la collection Géographie et cultures, fondée à l’Harmattan en 1992 par Paul Claval. Rédigé par sa directrice actuelle, le texte est tout d’abord consacré à une présentation des titres et des auteurs : qui, quels statuts, quelles origines (disciplines, établisse­ments), quelles langues d’écriture ? Ensuite, les différents types de géographie sont examinés. La collection est-elle vraiment au centre de la géographie culturelle, comme l’indique son nom ? Si un nombre conséquent de titres accrédite cette hypothèse de congruence entre le nom et le contenu, avec des approches épistémologiques, en géographie historique et, plus rarement, post-modernes, force est de constater que nombre de livres signalent des incursions dans les périphéries très lointaines de la géographie culturelle, voire en dehors de la sphère des études culturelles (approches économiques, politiques notamment). Le plus petit dénominateur commun de la collection serait-il alors la place que les auteurs accordent au travail de terrain ? Finalement, l’orientation thématique de la collection dépend principalement des modalités de décision de publication, qui sont examinées à la fin. Les orientations actuelles tendent à promouvoir le recentrement vers les seules approches culturelles en géographie. The 2014 Cerisy congress devoted to the journal Géographie et Culture's anniversary was the occasion to make a point about the scientific books collection of the same name. It was also founded en 1992 by Paul Claval and ever since 45 books have been published. The paper is written by its present manager. First the paper deals with the books and their authors: who are they (men and women, old and young, scholars and others...), where do they come from, in which language do they write? Secondly the types of geographies here represented are studied. Does the content of the books fit with the name of the collection? It is often the case with numerous books dealing with epistemology, history of geography, historical geography and, less frequently, postmodernism. But in many cases, books do not have much to do with cultural geography. These ones deal with very peripheral themes in regards to cultural geography such as economic geography or political geography. Nonetheless, most authors use the same methods based on field work, which could hence be considered as the only common point between all the books. The last part of the paper deals with the way the collection has been ruled since twenty years, tackling governance issues. During the latest years the reading committee has decided to focus more on the cultural approaches on geography and to give up these other fields.

Cet article aborde la question de la « géographicité » de l’œuvre du philosophe et militant Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, dans le cadre des études sur les relations entre géographie et anarchisme, théorie politique dont Proudhon est considéré comme l’un des fondateurs. À partir de ses textes édits et inédits, nous interrogeons le rapport de Proudhon à la géographie, notamment dans la construction de ses approches du fédéralisme et du problème des nationalités. Au sein de l’immense corpus proudhonien, nous nous focalisons spécifiquement sur les exemples emblématiques de ses écrits fédéralistes sur l’Italie et la Pologne. En appendice, nous publions pour la première fois le chapitre intitulé « Géographie politique » de la monographie inédite de Proudhon sur la Pologne, dont le manuscrit est déposé aux archives Proudhon de la Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon. This paper addresses the ‘geographicity’ of the works of the famous philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, drawing on the critical frame of present studies on the relationship between geography and anarchism, a political theory which includes Proudhon among its founders. Drawing on his published and unpublished texts, we interrogate Proudhon’s relation with geography, mainly through his approaches to federalism and to the problem of nationalities. Within the mammoth Proudhon’s corpus, we focus on the emblematic examples of his federalist writings on Italy and Poland. In a wide documentary appendix, we publish for the first time the chapter "Political Geography" from Proudhon’s unpublished monograph on Poland, whose manuscript version survives in the Besançon public library.

The aim of this dissertation is to study critical urban geography through three contemporary groups which claim to partake in it : Brazil’s GESP (Grupo de Estudos sobre São Paulo), Germany’s Kritische Geographie Berlin, and the international network of INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action). This method is inspired by the science studies and implies studying what is being done just as much as whatever theoretical content is being produced. In this view, ideas exist only insofar as they are borne, carried out and broadcast by these groups.From the data collected, it is possible, by crosschecking, to define critical urban geography as « on the threshold » : between the normative and the descriptive, between theory and practice, at the margins of the academic and scientific fields. This research also purports to assess whether the bonds between these groups are strong enough to allow us to talk about a global current of thought.