Searching the fundamentals of the critical break: a dialogue between French geography and USP geography production between 1964 and 1985

• Grant number: 14/22531-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: February 02, 2015
• End date: July 01, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos
• Grantee: Elisa Favaro Verdi
• Supervisor: Martine Droulers
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/12988-0 - Geographical production and critical rupture: the USP based Geography between 1964 and 1985, BP.MS

Abstract

This research project for international internship is part of the Master's dissertation in progress in the Graduate Program in Human Geography at USP, which analyzes the academic production of this program as a key part of the movement of critical renewal in the Brazilian Geography during the second half of the XX century. As a partial result of the research, from a survey of all work submitted between 1964 and 1985 and the analysis of the bibliographies of the same, we found French geographers - particularly Pierre George and Yves Lacoste - and Herodote as thematic and methodological references to such researches. We set out, then, to understand more deeply this French Geography which funded the work of a generation of geographers trained by USP, and featured a break toward called Critical Geography. (AU)