The geography of e-commerce: links, differences and similarities between France and Brazil

• Grant number: 21/11437-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: February 01, 2022
• End date: November 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: María Mónica Arroyo
• Grantee: Igor Venceslau Freitas
• Supervisor: Bruno Moriset
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Jean Moulin Lyon III, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 18/04130-0 - The e-commerce in the spread of the techno-scientific-informational milieu in Brazil: uses of territory and logistical strategies, BP.DR

Abstract

The rise of digital economy and the e-commerce as important activities of this period has improved the strategical role of space and place. In Geography, many efforts have been made to better explain such phenomenon, but few consider addressing its uneven diffusion in very different spatial context. This project aims to analyze the geography of retail e-commerce in its differences and similarities between Brazil and France as two territories under uneven level of economic development and spatial integration. Based on theoretical approaches from Milton Santos, Jacques Lévy, Peter Dicken, Bruno Moriset, among others, this research includes bibliographical, documental and fieldwork procedures in Europe, mainly in France and Switzerland, as well as interviews and a cartographic production. It is expected these results will help understanding the geography of e-commerce in Brazil and abroad. (AU)