Brazilian Geography: In Theory and in the Streets

ISBN-13: 9789811937033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 427 str.

Rubén C. Lois González; Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior

Opis

This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements. The relationship between the subjects and objects of research in Brazilian geography has been centred on the understanding and transformation of realities marked by injustice and inequality. Against this backdrop, the geography of the country has developed by integrating, relating to, and forming part of those realities as it headed out into the streets. Brazilian geography continues to hold theoretical debate in high regard as a result of the influence of critical theory. This book thus covers the theoretical approaches in Brazilian geography, its different lines of research, and above all its character as manifested in culture and society.

Spis treści

Introduction

Rubén C. Lois González and Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior

 

Part I: Theoretical Contributions and Challenges for Brazilian Geography

 

Critical Geography: From the Office to the Streets

Alexandrina Luiz Conceição and Sócrates Menezes

 

Far Beyond the ‘Natural Environment’: Geography at the Crossroads of the Capitalocene

Marcelo Lopes De Souza

 

Brazilian Geography and the Study of Territorial Formation

Manoel Fernandes

 

Man in his being in the world. Geography and Geographicity

Ruy Moreira

 

Physical Geography and the Study of Environmental Problems: The Brazilian Contribution

Dirce Suetergaray

 

The Study of Cities in Brazilian Geography

Pedro de Almeida Vasconcelos

 

The Production of Urban Space and “Critical Geography”

Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos

 

Dialogues on Brazilian Political Geography and its Perspectives in the 21st Century

Adriana Dorfman and Lício Caetano do Rego Monteiro

 

The Consensual Divorce of Geography. Adherence to Neoliberalism, the Cult of Freedom and the Overthrow of Democracy

Tadeu Alencar Arrais

 

Scientific Research and the Construction of the Field of Teaching of Geography in Schools: Trends and Challenges

Ângela MassumiKatuta and Maria Adailza Martins de Albuquerque

 

The Contribution of Milton Santos to the Theoretical Formation of Brazilian Geography

Mónica Arroyo and Fabio Contel

 

Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro and the Construction of Brazilian Geographical Climatology

Francisco Mendonça

 

Aziz Nacib Ab'saber and the Professionalisation of Research in Geomorphology in Brazilian Geography Courses

Antonio Carlos Vitte

 

Part II: Brazilian geography, a geography of the street

 

The Right to the City and the Housing in Brazilian Cities

Arlete Moyses

 

The Long March of the Brazilian Peasantry: Socioterritorial Movements, Conflicts and Agrarian Reform

Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira

 

Land and Food: the New Struggles of the Landless Workers Movement (MST)

Bernardo Mançano Fernandes

 

Geography and Indigenous Peoples: Struggles of Resistance

Márcia Yukari Mizusaki and José Gilberto de Souza

 

The Geography of Labour under Construction: Theoretical Challenges and Research Praxis

Antonio Thomaz Junior

 

A Popular Environmentalism in Defence of Life, Dignity and Territory (an autobiographical contribution from an activist geographer)

Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves

 

Challenges in Decolonisation of the Brazilian/Latin American Geography/ies

Rogério Haersbaert

 

Brazilian Feminist Geographies: Occupying Space, Resisting Negation and Producing Challenges to Geography

Joseli Maria Silva and Marcio Jose Ornat

 

Association of Brazilian Geographers (AGB): The Construction of a Geography of Struggle

Charles da França Antunes and Paulo Alentejano

 

 

Epilogue

Vladimir Kolosov. Former president of the IGU/UGI

O autorze

Rubén C. Lois González is a vice president of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He has specialized in urban and cultural geography and is a connoisseur of the geography of Brazil. He was a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) in 2017. He has conducted conferences and published in academic media in Salvador de Bahia, Fernando Pessoa, Recife, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, among other places. Springer has published several books for which he was an editor and co-author.

Marco Mitidiero is the president of the Brazilian National Postgraduate Association in Geography (ANPEGE). He is a professor at the Federal University of Paraíba. He was trained at the University of São Paulo, where he defended his doctoral thesis. He is a specialist in agrarian geography and social movements and has held research positions at Spanish universities. At present, he coordinates numerous networks of exchange and scientific debate among Brazilian universities in the field of geography.