Brazilian Geography: In Theory and in the Streets [Hardcover]

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.

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 Geograpló&