Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
ngela 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
