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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.
List of contents
Introduction.- Critical Geography: From the Office to the Streets.- Far Beyond the 'Natural Environment': Geography at the Crossroads of the Capitalocene.- Brazilian Geography and the Study of Territorial Formation.- Man in his being in the world.- Geography and Geographicity.- Physical Geography and the Study of Environmental Problems: The Brazilian Contribution.- The Study of Cities in Brazilian Geography.- The Production of Urban Space and "Critical Geography".- Dialogues on Brazilian Political Geography and its Perspectives in the 21st Century.- The Consensual Divorce of Geography.- Adherence to Neoliberalism, the Cult of Freedom and the Overthrow of Democracy.- Scientific Research and the Construction of the Field of Teaching of Geography in Schools: Trends and Challenges.- The Contribution of Milton Santos to the Theoretical Formation of Brazilian Geography.- Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro and the Construction of Brazilian Geographical Climatology.- Aziz Nacib Ab'saberand the Professionalisation of Research in Geomorphology in Brazilian Geography Courses.- The Right to the City and the Housing in Brazilian Cities.- The Long March of the Brazilian Peasantry: Socioterritorial Movements, Conflicts and Agrarian Reform.- Land and Food: the New Struggles of the Landless Workers Movement (MST).- Geography and Indigenous Peoples: Struggles of Resistance.- The Geography of Labour under Construction: Theoretical Challenges and Research Praxis.- A Popular Environmentalism in Defence of Life, Dignity and Territory (an autobiographical contribution from an activist geographer).- Challenges in Decolonisation of the Brazilian/Latin American Geography/ies.- Brazilian Feminist Geographies: Occupying Space, Resisting Negation and Producing Challenges to Geography.- Association of Brazilian Geographers (AGB): The Construction of a Geography of Struggle.- Epilogue.
About the author
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.
