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En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio basado en la percepción de los jóvenes ante el cambio climático. Para ello se tomó como referencia los contenidos y competencias que figuran en la ficha docente de la asignatura relacionados con la geografía física para futuros docentes de educación primaria. Se realizó una intervención didáctica a un grupo de 79 hombres y mujeres que no cuentan con formación previa relacionada con los conceptos de sostenibilidad y cambio climático. Fue utilizada la metodología de aprendizaje basado en problemas puesta en práctica en tres sesiones de seminarios prácticos en los que se trataron las consecuencias del clima en la salud. Se obtuvo información del aprendizaje a través de un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc, y posteriormente se realizó un análisis de los datos obtenidos de carácter mixto, con un predominio de los datos cuantitativos sobre los cualitativos. Los resultados muestran que la mayor parte de los jóvenes aseguran sentir impotencia y entienden que el mundo sufrirá graves consecuencias causadas por el cambio climático. El 74% identifica la relación existente entre el cambio climático y la salud; y aseguran que son numerosos los factores que influyen en nuestro organismo una vez realizada la experiencia. Estos resultados alertan de la visión pesimista de los estudiantes a la hora de afrontar el cambio climático, proporcionando claves para mejorar su enseñanza, como la necesaria sensibilización y conocimientos relacionados con el medioambiente.

Recent years have seen growing interest in the role of selective public secondary schools as places of state-funded privilege production. Students' experiences in and perceptions of these schools are still under-researched. Focusing on the transition to Gymnasium, highly selective public secondary schools in Zurich, this article analyses how students are addressed by principals, teachers, and education policies and how they perceive the Gymnasium and its students. Drawing on a 13-month ethnography with eight students, the article shows that students learn to see the Gymnasia as stellar schools for hard-working and intelligent students who have earned their privileges. Students play an important role in coproducing and legitimizing their privileged status in the educational field by drawing on the notion of merit. Most students distanced themselves from the non-Gymnasium “other”, labeling them as less hard-working and less intelligent. These processes ultimately contribute to a hierarchization and division of Zurich's secondary schooling landscape.

Amphibians are globally threatened due to pollution, infection diseases, invasive species, habitat loss and climate change. Rising temperatures and shifts in precipitation regimes can have a major impact on the persistence of amphibian populations, especially in semi-arid regions. In this study, we used a long term time series spanning 34 years in central Spain to evaluate the effect of three climatic variables on the reproductive success of the natterjack toad (Epidalea calamita) in temporary ponds. Our results showed that reproductive success was only possible for seven years (20.6%). We found that reproductive success is positively related to the accumulated spring precipitation, while negatively related to mean spring temperature and spring evaporation. This study highlights the importance of conserving and restoring amphibian breeding habitats in order to minimize the potential impacts of climate change and habitat loss.

This article presents a spatially sensitive approach to the narratives of transformation processes, employing oral history to explore the connection between loss, emotions, and memory in the context of changing shipyard work in East Germany since 1989. The former place of work, the shipyard, serves as a central place where loss, emotions and memory condense. The method of oral history enables the subjective narration of past experiences and forms the basis for recording and analyzing narratives of experiences. Empirically, the article draws on oral history interviews with former shipyard workers to gain deeper insights into their memories, experiences and the emotional impact of the loss or impending loss of their jobs. This research contributes to understanding the social and emotional effects of transformation processes, emphasizing the importance of oral history in incorporating the subjective experiences of those affected in geographical research.

This paper draws on current discussions in digital geography that emphasize the political and theoretical role of glitches. While we sympathize with the basic assumptions of this discussion and also find it helpful to connect these to older discussions around digital infrastructures, we propose an opposing perspective with this text. Using the example of Internet infrastructures, we focus on the continuous and painstaking work of making infrastructures invisible and preventing glitches. We are particularly interested in the production of resilience and focus from a geographical perspective on the rationalities of redundancy and addressing latency.

In this short intervention addressing the impact of crises on geographical knowledge practices, we, members of GenUrb (a multi-sited, longitudinal, partnered urban research project), ask, “what counts as crisis?”, sketching out epistemological and methodological points about our project's engagement with this call. We query the adeptness of dominant Eurocentric epistemologies in addressing crises, adopting the work of Bedour Alagraa, who places crises firmly within a historical–geographical colonial framing that conceptualizes crises not through rupture but through continuation. We illustrate the utility of this epistemological framing of crisis, honing in on the everyday violence that women continually experience, with our research in the cities of Cochabamba, Delhi, Georgetown, Ibadan, Ramallah, and Shanghai, showing that one in every two women participants had experienced intimate partner violence. We further ask what crises mean for the methodologies we adopt, specifically concerning questions of the co-production of knowledge and methods.

What could urban geographers continue to learn and unlearn from critical utopianism and emancipatory futurities? This contribution seeks to recover transformative academic practices and work towards didactics of speculative estrangement. Specifically, I propose to draw on science and speculative fiction literature to support the revision of established geographical imaginations and epistemologies in a higher-education context.

The metropolitan rootedness of urban studies has been under critique for more than 2 decades. The call for more studies from “elsewhere” and theorization from “outside” the North Atlantic circuits of knowledge production has changed the landscape of urban theory. However, the genius loci of this urban theory still lies in the metropolis (centre of power and knowledge). One key reason for this metropolitan locatedness is the lack of attention paid to geo- and bio-politics of knowledge which separates/excludes the ontological location of the researchers from research practice. This separation/exclusion allows a research practice wherein data are produced from the field, theorization happens elsewhere, and the researcher manages this process (as objectively as possible). This schema evades the locationality of research questions/concerns, as to where they come from, and how the ontological location of the researcher produces them. This paper discusses the need to recentre the researcher to evade what allegorically becomes “research without researchers”.

Contemporary debates are increasingly focused on dealing with crises that span many systems and sectors. These crises have transformed the process of doing research itself, impacting research funding, the type of research being done, and the subjects of our research. They have led to re-thinking and re-evaluating the value and aims of research. As social scientists, it is nearly impossible to isolate our work from the impacts of these. As researchers at knowledge-based institutions, these crises have increasingly shaped the nature of our work. Through this intervention, I argue for a need to invest in developing systems and processes, particularly for institutions based in the Global South, that build resilience within such institutions to be able to deal with crises as they emerge. I offer suggestions and approaches from my own context in India on how, as researchers based in the Global South, we can begin to think about long-term, systemic approaches to responding to these challenges.

In this reflective essay, I discuss the epistemic challenges encountered through my research journey, which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the coup back home in Myanmar. As a PhD student from the Global South but residing in Europe during these crises, I highlight the conditions of precarity I faced and how they were reinforced by the uneven structural rules, accentuating the need for collective action and effective change. Despite these challenges, I maintain that crises offer a crucial opportunity to innovate in research practices and move toward more inclusive approaches. This would include accounting for the constraints of crises and supporting researchers who need to flexibly respond to conditions of crises.

We work at rethinking our knowledge practices and at making geography and theory formation more just, and we tend to focus on research and not on teaching. Similarly, when investigating who is seen as producing legitimate theory and where, we rarely answer that students do. This contribution therefore offers a double-barreled argument: that we should also answer epistemological debates and better our practices by centering teaching in our scholarship for once and that we should consider the classroom a space for theory formation by students. This argument insists on the political and epistemological importance of problematizing the location of our teaching and bringing together the two traditions of feminist epistemologies and critical pedagogies.

The term “left behind” has regained attention with the increasing signs of political dissatisfaction in the Global North, e.g. the rise of right-wing populist parties and politicians. In Germany, terms such as abgehängte Regionen (suspended regions) or “structurally weak” regions are often employed as alternatives. However, there is a certain fuzziness in these terminologies, as they often encompass different spatial scales and temporal dependencies and refer to a variety of regions, e.g. deindustrialising cities as well as peripheral and remote rural areas. Our approach conceptualises “left-behindness” as an outcome of peripheralisation. This allows for a theory-based selection of social, economic, and infrastructural indicators to operationalise left-behindness in Germany at the NUTS3 (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) level with combining a factor analysis and a k-means cluster analysis. The former resulted in four dimensions of left-behindness with distinct spatial patterns, leading to the classification of six regional types, characterised by varying scores for the four dimensions.

Abstract Flowing Waters, Lasting Stories: the Lambro River as an Archive of Collective Memory The Lambro River has profoundly shaped Lombardy’s landscape and local communities throughout history. This paper aims to investigate the connection between the river and the identity of these communities by analyzing how changes in landscape have been reflected in both tangible and intangible cultural expressions. Studying this heritage offers insights into how the Lambro has been perceived and integrated into the local community’s identity over time, becoming a fundamental element of their sense of belonging. To achieve this objective, this research uses art, literature, and music, which not only portray the region but also provide valuable insights in the evolution of collective identities across generations.

Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted impact of Covid-19 on Sesto San Giovanni, in the Milan metropolitan area. It analyzes the challenges faced by local businesses and how the city responded with extraordinary measures for public spaces, revitalizing commercial sectors, and adopting new coping mechanisms. The pandemic underscored the strategic importance of public spaces and commercial activities as vital infrastructures for societal well-being and resilience. Integrating outdoor amenities like dehors and parklets into urban redevelopment plans has boosted economic vitality and social cohesion, creating a vibrant and interconnected urban environment.

Abstract Hyper-Places and Urban Fabrics: The Role of Shopping Centers in the Lombardy Territorial Context Moving from a reflection related to urban transformations that have occurred over the years the paper reflects on the generation of new urban spaces – which are configured as strong attractors, connectors, and diffusers – capable of encompassing various individual practices as well as the functions of a society as a whole. Assuming this framework, the contribution focuses on the role of shopping centers – with particular attention to the role assumed by Oriocenter in Lombardy (Italy) – as hyper-places. In fact, since the early 1990s, such structures have undergone profound changes, developing both through an increase in size and through a diversification of commercial attractors, promoting renewed flow trajectories and leading to increasing territorial complexity.

Abstract Potentialities and Criticalities of the Isole Ciclopi Marine Protected Area The paper analyses the Isole Ciclopi Marine Protected Area facing the hamlet of Aci Trezza within the municipality of Aci Castello in the Province of Catania, Italy. It aims to describe emerging potential and critical issues, posing the question of which actors are involved in the governance. Employing a qualitative methodology, the research revealed that the main problem is the non-implementation of the so-called command-and-control method. After establishing rules and prohibitions, resources for control and imposition of sanctions are lacking. A positive note is the increase in youth volunteer activities of cleaning the sea from plastics, showing a sound interest in the environmental education proposed by cultural and environmental associations.

Abstract The Rhetoric of Sustainability: Territorial Indicators and Field Research in Alta Valtellina This paper compares statistical data on environmental sustainability with the governmental actions of the territory, which really affect the protection of the landscape and ecosystem elements. Case study is the Alta Valtellina, and the work focuses on Lago Bianco at the Gavia Pass, a remnant specimen of arctic tundra in the Stelvio National Park, exploited to capture water for artificial snow-making on ski slopes. This research shows the socio-cultural and economic dynamics underlying the relationship between mountain environment, protected nature, tourism and population, which recount experiences of vulnerability, lack of protection and conflict.

Protected Areas, Cultural Landscapes, and Urban Fabrics: Methodological Reflections, Experiences of Territorial Enhancement, and Quality of Life.

Abstract Can Well-being Be Measured? Reflections on the Spatial Dimension of the OECD Better Life Index Indices developed by international research organizations assume value in the adoption of new policies. This paper aims to present the role that these indices have taken on in order to investigate the methodology adopted and understand the role that the space between the indicators used takes on. Specifically, the Better Life Index that the OECD develops is examined, analyzing and mapping the indicators used. Some critical issues emerge, and in particular the absence of the spatial dimension among the parameters considered. The paper reflects on the relevance of this gap and highlights the importance of the relationship with space in assessing well-being.

Since the “summer of migration” in 2015, LGBT organizations have been actively involved in migration work, particularly in creating safer spaces for queer asylum seekers and refugees. This involvement marks a shift as these organizations previously had limited engagement with queer people of color. German LGBT organizations focus on providing support, security, and community for queer asylum seekers and refugees, drawing upon the concept of safer spaces. While existing literature addresses LGBT organizations in development and the challenges faced by queer asylum seekers, there is limited research on the creation of safer spaces. Research suggests a predominant focus on spatial separation as a means of ensuring safety. This article aims to fill this research gap by exploring how German LGBT organizations are adapting and institutionalizing the concept of safer spaces. It investigates the role of spatial separation, control mechanisms, and potential essentialist and cultural biases in shaping safer spaces. The study contextualizes this within the framework of homonationalism in Germany, followed by a theoretical exploration of safer spaces and an empirical analysis of how LGBT organizations conceptualize them. Drawing on expert interviews with spokespersons of German LGBT organizations and an extensive analysis of their websites, my study shows the ways in which the LGBT organizations construct themselves as saviors of vulnerable queer asylum seekers and migrants, while constructing the non-queer asylum seekers and migrants as a threat through othering. Following the logics of these safer space concepts, spatial separation appears as the ultimate solution to offer safety to queer migrants and refugees. In contrast, I also observe alternative safer spaces offered by LGBT organizations, which, in addition to their purely protective function, also create spaces for caring practices and peer-to-peer empowerment through storytelling.

The governing of urban drug use and its economies represents a central aspect of urban governmentality and has played an important role in the production and control of public space in numerous cities of the Global North since the 1970s. Urban drug cultures are often the subject of moral panics and urban policing. At the same time, geographical engagement with the spatial dimensions and effects of governing urban drug cultures is surprisingly rare. Using the example of Görlitzer Park in Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, this paper examines the spatializing discourses and practices of urban drug policies and shows how looking at the governing of illicit drugs provides a productive lens for analysing forms of urban exclusion, marginalization, and normalization. From a geographical perspective, it is particularly interesting to examine how this form of urban governance mobilizes spatial approaches and representations of space, i.e., how urban drug cultures are spatialized in multiple ways.

Promising independence in old age, smart home technologies are increasingly being mobilized as a solution to the care crisis in western industrialized societies. A widely accepted concept, “ageing in place” promotes ageing and care at home, with technologies ensuring implementation and reducing healthcare costs. However, images of ageing that promote active ageing and problematize old age are inscribed in the development process of smart home technologies. Based on an ethnographic investigation of technically mediated promises and use cases and interviews with technology developers and exhibitors, we show how smart home technologies construct images of self-responsible, active age on the one hand, and dependent old age on the other. Drawing on a social constructivist notion of ageing and extending feminist STS influenced conceptions of the co-construction of technology and ageing, we show that images of ageing are also spatial constructions that idealize the home as a place of the “third age” and devalue the nursing home as a place of the “fourth age”.

O artigo examina como a Geografia Renovada pode aprimorar o planejamento territorial, enfatizando uma crítica a algumas teorias e práticas atuais. Diante das crescentes crises causadas por usos seletivos do território que aprofundam desigualdades socioespaciais, é fundamental que a geografia se comprometa com a resolução de problemas e com métodos que considerem relações territoriais mais complexas. O planejamento territorial deve integrar diferentes escalas, considerar os aprendizados do passado — desde os períodos autoritários até experiências mais recentes — e focar na participação social para superar as crises atuais. Destacam-se, ainda, a necessidade de se considerar interações entre organização social e espacial integradas e dos três tipos de eventos (homólogo, complementar e hierárquico) para um planejamento mais eficaz. Por fim, ressalta-se a necessidade de se compreender as relações entre espaço e lugar, bem como da utilização das recentes potencialidades técnicas e científicas para um planejamento mais soberano nos países do Sul.

A compreensão histórica das políticas de planejamento territorial é crucial para o desenvolvimento regional. Este artigo revisita a trajetória do planejamento territorial no Rio Grande do Norte de 1959 a 2010, período marcado pela influência da Superintendência para o Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (SUDENE). Baseado nos princípios da geógrafa Maria Adélia Aparecida de Souza, o estudo ressalta a integração das dimensões espaciais e temporais, a solidariedade territorial e a busca por um futuro equitativo. A análise é sustentada por uma revisão documental de estudos, discursos e planos de governo, complementada por entrevistas com dez informantes-chave em 2009 e dados secundários do IBGE. Identifica-se quatro fases de modernização e estratégias de desenvolvimento, mostrando avanços e os desafios persistentes que exigem revisões contínuas nas práticas de planejamento.

Con este editorial del núm. 15, vol. 8 de PatryTer –Revista Latinoamericana y Caribena de Geografia y Humanidades –se pretende rescatar, de manera sintética, el debate inaugurado por Milton Santos sobre el territorio usado, categoría de análisis social, para demostrar que, en los más de sesenta años (1962-2024) de dedicación a la Geografía, Maria Adélia de Souza, desde Brasil ha contribuido a la discusión contemporánea del tema. Esto se demuestra en su consolidada producción científica, justificando plenamente el homenaje que se le dedica a la Dra. Adélia de Souza en este número de la revista.

Este texto presenta ideas y elementos para la configuración de un sistema de seguimiento del uso del territorio en América Latina, para monitorear el proceso de integración, con la elaboración y acción de políticas gubernamentales nacionales. Se reflexiona sobre la necesidad de retomar la discusión sobre la dimensión territorial de las funciones públicas de interés común y colectivo, considerando la integración como una forma de subsidiar políticas continentales, nacionales, regionales y locales que minimicen las desigualdades socioespaciales, características perversas de la sociedad latinoamericana, realidad agravada por la globalización. Se trata también de la creación de una base de datos multidisciplinaria de interés común en el continente, que podría vincularse a la UNILA – Universidad de Integración de América Latina, instrumento del proceso de integración continental. Estas ideas parten de un fundamento teórico geográfico y de las características del mundo globalizado, para delinear la planificación territorial de la integración. Geografía, Geopolítica y Geopoética amplían las perspectivas de esta reflexión.

O artigo aborda as irracionalidades do atual modelo de gestão das universidades. Ele destaca como a busca por mais organização, eficiência e produtividade, muitas vezes baseada em princípios de racionalização, resulta em irracionalidades: individualismo, desumanização, desonestidade, superficialidade, perda de qualidade e aumento do estresse acadêmico. A partir de um diálogo com a literatura sobre a crise da universidade e de reflexões sobre as experiências do autor enquanto acadêmico em países distintos, o artigo explora três tiranias que dominam a academia contemporânea: tempo, métrica e competitividade, e questiona como essas pressões distorcem a essência contestadora, colaborativa e reflexiva da universidade. Por fim, propõe uma análise de contrarracionalidades acadêmicas como formas de resistência que surgem em resposta a esse modelo hegemônico, sugerindo alternativas que questionem o caráter estrutural do problema e estimulem o pensamento crítico.

El CLUP - Coloquio Latinoamericano sobre Urbanización y Patrimonialización – es un evento académico bienal, que reúne a investigadores de Geografía, ciencias humanas y sociales de América Latina y el Caribe, un espacio favorable para la divulgación de temas y el debate teórico-metodológico relacionado con los usos del territorio, las dinámicas urbano-rurales, la socialización del medio natural en el continente. El evento es promovido por GECIPA (Grupo de Investigaciones CNPq sobre Ciudades y Patrimonialización en América Latina y el Caribe), el cual pertenece al Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad de Brasilia (UnB) y fue fundado en 2011, bajo la coordinación del profesor Everaldo Batista da Costa. El IV se llevó a cabo en la Universidad Nacional del Sur, entre los días 26 y 28 de septiembre de 2024, reuniendo a cerca de 130 investigadores de universidades y otras instituciones de Brasil, México, Chile, Argentina y Costa Rica. El evento contó con un total de 13 mesas, en las cuales se realizaron 78 presentaciones de trabajos que permitieron reflexionar y proponer caminos posibles para la construcción de la justicia socioespacial y para la crítica y enfrentamiento de las desigualdades socioespaciales, que involucran las ciudades-campo en América Latina y el Caribe.

El barroco en Iberoamérica se consolida como un movimiento cultural y arquitectónico que define las identidades de la sociedad virreinal. Esta investigación examina la arquitectura Barroca Hispanoamericana Periférica (BHAP) en el territorio de Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, México, con el objetivo de analizar su impacto en la formación de la memoria e identidad local. Se analiza cómo esta arquitectura materializa el pensamiento indígena novohispano y organiza el espacio social, especialmente evidente en las iglesias de Santa Cruz de las Flores. Utilizando una metodología mixta, se analizan unidades decorativas en las portadas de las iglesias para identificar patrones conductuales. Los resultados indican que los indígenas de Tlajomulco integran elementos europeos y autóctonos, desempeñando un papel fundamental en la arquitectura BHAP, manifestando una notable convergencia cultural. Se enfatiza la importancia de preservar este patrimonio arquitectónico, no sólo como estructura física sino como portadora de las complejas identidades culturales de un territorio.

Esta entrevista integra o vol. 8, núm. 15 de PatryTer - Revista Latinoamericana y Caribenha de Geografia e Humanidades, o qual homenageia a Maria Adélia Aparecida de Souza, professora Titular do Departamento de Geografia da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e que se dedica há mais de sessenta anos à Geografia brasileira. Assim, ao apresentar esta entrevista, seguimos com um dos projetos ou objetivos que acompanham a nossa revista, que inclui homenagear as principais personagens da Geografia e de outras ciências sociais da e para a América Latina.

A relação simbólico-afetiva com o território, constituinte de territorialidades, compõe um habitus ético próprio que assimila autonomia no que se refere aos povos originários e tradicionais latino-americanos. Intenciona-se refletir sobre os impactos dos sistemas técnico-científicos globais sobre a territorialidade dos sujeitos tradicionais cerratenses que compõem as socioflorestas deste bioma. Parte-se de resultados parciais, via pesquisa qualitativa, tendo como objeto empírico o Quilombo Buraquinhos, Chapada Gaúcha, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Primeiro contato com a comunidade analisada, obtendo-se fotografias da paisagem e diálogos informais com os moradores, a fim de compor processos metodológicos para estudo de caso futuro. Desdobra-se o conceito de território mais adequado a essa realidade e constrói-se diálogo entre a Dimensão histórico-temporal miltoniana e três princípios da Teoria da Complexidade. Através da retomada da essência localizada latino-americana, sociobiodiversa, ciente de si, pode-se alcançar responsabilidades e solidariedade na religação indivíduo-sociedade e indivíduo-natureza, a despertar a consciência moral, do local ao planetário.

O tombamento do patrimônio histórico não representa o fim das disputas pelo espaço urbano. Para demonstrar isso, delimitamos três períodos de disputas como modo de análise das territorialidades no Mercado Municipal de São Paulo. Em cada período, vemos um equilíbrio de forças entre diferentes territorialidades, questionando o sentido, a organização a proteção do Mercado. Buscamos as fontes dessa pesquisa em notícias de jornal, análises de leis da cidade e entrevistas com trabalhadores. O conceito de territorialidade, na linha de Robert Sack, é central na nossa metodologia, pois indica que existem diferentes estratégias subjetivas e objetivas para um mesmo território. O nosso objetivo é evidenciar que, mesmo com o tombamento em 2004, as disputas socioterritoriais foram renovadas. Concluímos que os poderes econômico e político geram formas espaciais que precisam ser complementadas com o sentido simbólico e cultural, gerando novas territorialidades.

Seja como utopia ou realidade histórica, a América Latina é, ainda, uma grande incógnita para a sociedade brasileira e a Geografia – ciência e disciplina escolar – tem um papel a desempenhar na reversão desse quadro. Neste sentido, propõe-se a formulação de uma metodologia de ensino da disciplina Geografia da América Latina lecionada na UFOB que busca conciliar o estudo geográfico a uma ilustração lúdica da formação territorial latinoamericana por meio da análise de produções cinematográficas e na literatura de Eduardo Galeano na perspectiva da Geografia Histórica. Assim, o objetivo deste escrito é dar ciência e debater o escopo metodológico desenvolvido para o plano de ensino proposto. Para tanto, o artigo foi construído seguindo um roteiro que contempla (a) um detalhamento dos aspectos construtivos da metodologia e (b) uma exposição relativa às escolhas das obras constantes em cada um dos períodos definidos.

Este texto surge a partir de las reflexiones, de peso autocrítico, relativas a las prácticas de la conservación del paisaje y el patrimonio, particularmente situadas desde el lugar geopolítico latinoamericano. Desde esta mirada se propone analizar las persistencias teórico-conceptuales, que desafían la forma en que se produce y se inventa el paisaje como objeto patrimonial. Particularmente, es tensionada la condición colonial de este proceso, a partir de una revisión documental trazada a través de los referentes que aún ocupan las ideas centrales respecto a la llamada Teoría de la Conservación. Se identifican como desafíos, para que esta crítica pueda replicar en el descentramiento de estos referentes, la importancia de sobrepasar, la idea de paisaje estructurado desde la dicotomía cultura-naturaleza, la pretendida homogeneidad e inmutabilidad como preceptos de lo titulado como patrimonial, y el peso aún significativo asignado a la noción de belleza escénica.

O presente texto tem sua origem na pesquisa de doutorado “A pluriversalidade do ser a partir do pensamento de Mogobe Ramose e sua ressonância em uma comunidade quilombola do Brasil”. Esta referida comunidade quilombola é o Quilombo Mesquita, em Cidade Ocidental, GO. Baseando-se em pesquisas bibliográficas, discurso testemunhal e experiência de vida, a reflexão visa responder ao questionamento: como se manifesta a pluriversalidade do ser em Mogobe Ramose e como se dá sua ressonância na cosmopercepção quilombola no que diz respeito a espaço? A partir disso, a discussão desenvolve-se em torno da compreensão de uma realidade cósmica amplamente conectada que, por sua vez, explicita-se nas relações plurais, dimensões ancestrais e realidade dinâmica do ser (contínuo movimento). Pluriversalmente falando, espaço neste presente texto, tem nuances territoriais, memoriais, habitacionais, construções coletivas, espaços ecológicos e místicos. Compõe-se também de representações simbólicas, construções identitárias, lugar de fala, ambiente de luta e comprometimento.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las particularidades de la formación socioespacial de Haití en el contexto de países de América Latina y el Caribe, teniendo en cuenta las desigualdades socioespaciales contemporáneas, que es una de las características de los Estados de América Latina y el Caribe, heredada del período colonial y la esclavitud. Desde un punto de vista metodológico, tomando como referencia la teoría y método de formación socioespacial (Santos, 1979) como base de análisis que abarca todas las cuestiones sociales en el tiempo y el espacio. Además, se realizó un levantamiento bibliográfico que muestra que los orígenes de las desigualdades en Haití son inherentes a las relaciones coloniales de producción que Francia mantiene con ese país, donde los efectos del período de colonización son similares en otros Estados latinoamericanos y caribeños.

La conservación del patrimonio en esfuerzos de instituciones y gobiernos ha tendido a la proyección territorial, favorecido un incremento de la valoración del paisaje, incluyendo la interacción entre sus componentes. Sin embargo, el discurso patrimonial paisajístico prepondera a los paisajes patrimoniales como producto, por encima del proceso de patrimonialización que subyace en todo territorio previo a cualquier intervención; propiciando disonancias entre objetivos conservacionistas y efectos reales de la patrimonialización, así como conflictos entre estrategias institucionales e intereses locales. En este artículo se exploran las limitaciones del concepto de patrimonialización. A través de una revisión bibliográfica se analiza su alcance en relación con el paisaje y los distanciamientos entre los objetivos de protección ambiental en el marco institucional, así como las valoraciones, necesidades y prácticas locales de uso y consumo de los recursos naturales, que derivan de la apropiación local del paisaje.

En este artículo se pondrán en diálogo los conceptos de prácticas espaciales, recreación y ocio, espacio público y paisaje. El objetivo central es analizar el modo en que los sujetos sociales interactúan y construyen estrategias de uso del espacio público y a partir de ello re-elaboran el paisaje a partir de sus experiencias. Este abordaje se sustenta en una metodología cualitativa de observación participante y cruce con fuentes secundarias periodísticas, análisis de fotografías del sitio y entrevistas exploratorias en relación a los usos, la construcción del paisaje y los modos de acción en las prácticas del ocio y la recreación en relación al caso de la ribera de San Isidro (2000-2020).

Decades of decline, disinvestment, and racism have left Detroit with an abundance of abandoned buildings, ruins, vacant lots, and illicit trash dumps. Though these structures and materials might have forfeited their previous purposes, they can act as catalysts, substances, and co-creators of artworks. The paper is thus interested in examining the intricate interplay between art, space, and materiality in Detroit further. Drawing from the practices of local artists Olayami Dabls and Scott Hocking, the paper adopts a new materialist framework to investigate the dynamic agency of matter in the artistic process. By considering materials as active participants in the production of art and space, the paper seeks to add to the emerging interest in the emancipation and meaning making of material in art as well as cultural geography's engagements with new materialism.

Los paradigmas pedagógicos actuales sugieren la conveniencia de apostar por enfoques que sitúen al estudiantado en el centro de los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje, objetivo que puede satisfacerse mediante la renovada implementación de los métodos tradicionales de la ciencia geográfica. La geografía se encuentra ante la oportunidad —y responsabilidad— de erigirse en la disciplina académica que impulse la conformación de una ciudadanía comprometida con los retos medioambientales contemporáneos. Se analizan las salidas de campo como método didáctico para enseñar geografía en los centros de educación secundaria, realizando un breve estudio histórico, normativo y pedagógico sobre la cuestión. Además, se diseña una propuesta de salida de campo contextualizada en la isla de Tenerife cuyo ejemplo señala algunas de las temáticas que pueden abordarse a través de dichos itinerarios. En un momento en el que se insiste en la necesidad de crear una conciencia medioambiental entre el alumnado desde la esfera local, se precisa de iniciativas didácticas que contribuyan a favorecer el conocimiento y la valoración del espacio geográfico circundante. El resultado de la implementación de la dinámica propuesta señala que, tras la salida de campo, el alumnado manifiesta una mayor concienciación ambiental, un vínculo reforzado con el territorio y una mayor cohesión.

A 2010 survey of more than 10 000 students from 18 countries showed that Central Asia was virtually absent from their representations of the world. In order to check whether this was also the case in the representations of students from this region, this survey was replicated in Kazakhstan, while nevertheless making the assumption that a Central Asian region would be largely represented by the students. While the results confirm important aspects of the theory of social representations of space, they also provide some original insights, showing in particular the very large place given to States, and in particular the Kazakh State, in the breakdown of the World. The prominence of States in Kazakh students' representations of the World can be analysed as a sign of the appropriation of the nation-state model by Kazakh students, some thirty years after the country's independence.

En Brasil el contingente de población rural se reduce de forma constante desde la década de 1950; a la vez, hay un gran número de trabajadores sin tierra y grandes latifundios. El Estado ha puesto en marcha políticas de reforma agraria que incluyen la creación de asentamientos rurales. En este trabajo se analiza el efecto de estas políticas sobre la dinámica demográfica de la población rural. Se ha analizado como caso de estudio la mesorregión de Presidente Prudente (São Paulo) entre 1990 y 2010. La fuente de datos de población es el Instituto Brasileño de Geografía y Estadística; la de asentamientos, el Instituto de Tierras de São Paulo. Lo que se ha hecho es comparar la dinámica demográfica de los municipios que tienen nuevos asentamientos y la de los que no tienen. Se ha comprobado que dinámica demográfica y creación de asentamientos rurales no son procesos independientes. En un contexto dominado por una dinámica de la población rural negativa, únicamente en municipios con nuevos asentamientos la población rural aumenta. La principal conclusión del trabajo es que la creación de asentamientos puede ser útil para la ordenación del territorio si se pretende mantener población en el campo.