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| Author(s): |
Flavia Christina Andrade Grimm
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-03-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Laura Silveira;
Ricardo Abid Castillo;
Maria Amelia Mascarenhas Dantes;
Antonio Carlos Robert Moraes;
Jaime Tadeu Oliva
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| Advisor: | Maria Laura Silveira |
| Abstract | |
This doctorate thesis aims at analyzing the complete epis- temological path of geographer Milton Santos (1926-2001) de- parting from the Genesis and evolution of concepts and cate- gories which were the pillars of his theoretical system. The choice for this author was done based on his unquestionable importance in the history of Brazilian Geography and on the course of its renewal from the mid-1970s on. As a methodical outset, we have adopted the contextual approach (Berdoulay, [1981] 2003) and the relations between the analisys axis that were elaborated to support them: the centrality of the technique, the dialogues with the political economy and the search for the citizenship as praxis. During this exercise, it was Paramount to recognize, within the greater themes with which the geographer has worked, the proccess of internalization of categories external to Geography and the historical contexts in which he has lived during more than five decades of work. We have assumed that this process of internalization of ca- tegories external to Geography such as technique, time, tota- lity, social instance, socio-economic formation, labor division, form, function, process, structure, objects, actions, norm and intentionality, among others has had an extremely dinami- zing role in rereading categories and concepts which are internal to the discipline, such as region, landscape, geographical space and territory, and consequently in the construction of a geographic theory. We can affirm that, relying on more than four decades of study and research, the geographer from Bahia has reached a complex theoretical systematization during the 1990s. We wish to highlight the elaboration of new concepts and categories that happened during the 1970s and came to enrich the epis- temological debates of Geography. We can mention the formu- lation of the theory of the circuits in urban economy and the emphasis on the need for the geographical space to be unders- tood as the object of the discipline, elevating it to an instance of society. We can add to that the elaboration of categories and concepts such as the sócio-spatial formation, the spacial circu- its of production and the cooperation circles, the technical- scientific medium (later on reconceived of as technical- scientific-informational) among others. It was precisely during the 1990s, departing from the un- derstanding of technique, viewed in its totality as a technical phenomenon, that Milton Santos proposed that Geography should be comprehended as a philosophy of techniques and as an epistemology of existence. He has, furthermore, conceived the category of used territory, which was proposed as a sino- nimous of geographical space. (AU) | |