Recently, the positioning of the north cardinal point at the top of maps has regained prominence in the news and social media. Furthermore, the release by IBGE of a world map with Brazil located at the center caused astonishment and reignited the debate about why these projections are mostly used with these configurations and what their practical, political, and social implications are in ordering the imagination of populations. Aiming to spark debate on this subject, we will discuss how map analysis can be carried out from a decolonial perspective involving topics of Cartography, Physics, and Human Sciences, seeking to demystify a supremacy based on Eurocentrism imposed on the countries of the Southern Hemisphere. This approach can be applied to understand better how maps are constructed, interpreted, and how they influence the world's perception. This suggests an analysis that is not limited only to the physical representation of space but also considers critical and historical aspects, as well as issues related to power and coloniality in cartography.
The article presents reflections on the processes of recognizing black people as political entities of anti-racist resistance , struggles in Brazil in relation to the Unified Black Movement (UBM). From the perspective of theories of recognition and Afrocentric knowledge - on categories such as biointeraction, confluences and transfluences - it presents the potential of a geography in which blackness is constituted as resistance to the space structured in whiteness, from everyday struggles to achievements in public policies at different levels of the state. This geography is organized in the encounter between black people and themselves when they join UBM's political spaces for discussion: there is recognition of themselves as a political space for resistance and anti-racist struggles.
This paper tries to reason about the relationship between geography and ancestry in the body-land manifested by the corporeality of indigenous women. The problem involves the intertwining of the consequences of the colonization process on the corporeality of indigenous women, since the ocurrence of patriarchal entrenchment and the usurpation of their territories. It takes a perspective of indigenous women, prioritizing dialogue with indigenous intellectuals, seeking to access the geographical meaning in their knowledge in order to understand how ancestral geography is expressed from the corporealities of indigenous women, in the context of territorial usurpations and violence suffered by them in the exploitation of their own body-land. From this, we intend to think about Geography as a thought that is grounded in and committed to the movement that has emerged from the bodies-land of indigenous women everywhere since time immemorial.
This paper seeks to understand and making explicit the terms "care", on the one hand, insofar as it presupposes, implies and reveals the most diverse ways of being and acting of the human being, and, "community", on the other hand, insofar as in any and all human organizations or institutionalizations as related and collective undertakings, human actions of zeal, appreciation, cultivation and responsibility always presuppose and share characteristically and genuinely human ways of being on behalf of those close to them, whether they are close by some kind of affective or consanguineous bond, or whether they are close for some other reason, such as social organization from an institutional or even legal point of view. Beyond an identitarian understanding of community, we seek to discuss the relationship between care and community based on Esposito's conceptual pair communitas and immunitas. Finally, the strong point of the approach turns attention to the fundamental role played by women from the beginning to the present day.
Love for the place translates the feeling of topophilia, which links humans to the various faces of the Earth and it is part of cultural dimension of existences, which includes to dwell. As a theoretical axis, permeates the thinking of geographers as Yi-Fu Tuan, whose thinking is based on the poetic and reflective approach of philosophers as Gaston Bachelard. From this perspective, the purpose of this scientific article is to seize topophilia as a motto for processes of participatory management of protected territories, based on the results of doctoral research, executed between the years 2017 and 2020. Based on phenomenological methodology, the approach made it possible to perceive - from the reality of Environmental Protection Area of Maracan & atilde; - the relevance of including aspects linked to topophilia in the participatory management of protected territories.
The contemporaneity presents challenges for education due to the advancement of communication media and the proliferation of entertainment that captures the attention of young people. In this context, the possibility of implementing supplementary teaching materials can aid in this "competition" for students' attention, as these resources, for the most part, are entertainment-oriented. Thus, the assimilation of these materials represents the incorporation of entertainment as a teaching tool, rather than renouncing it. That said, this study analyzed the possibilities that J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit offers as a supplementaryteaching materialforthegeographical concept of place and for cartography, exploring how these themes can be seen and discussed through the work. The study highlights the potential offantasy literaryworks like The Hobbitforteaching, enabling parallels to be drawn with the thoughts of Geography and cartography scholars regarding the analyzed elements.
This is the translation of the article "Pedagogies of Place/ Geographies of Experience", published by Ellyn Lyle in Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education in 2015. With an approach centered on the lived and living experience of place, the author introduces us to place-based educators and narratively invites us to explore four themes that shape her relationship with teaching: communication, responsiveness, integrity, and critical consciousness. This is an invitation to consider place as a space of wide-awakening, enabling us to a deeper understanding of who we are in the experience of teaching and learning.
The first contacts between geography and literature go back to the beginnings of geographical thought, when there was still no rigid division of knowledge, a hallmark of modernity. During the first half of the 20th century, the approach was little explored, but from the 1970s, literature begins to establish itself as a systematic object of research in geography, currently constituting an important field of work with relevant contributions to geographical thought. The theme has been approached by different theoretical-methodological currents, mainly by humanist geography. This article aims to synthesize the main theoretical aspects involved in the approximation between humanist geography and literature. For this, we investigate the history of contemporary geographic thought and we focus on the concept of humanism, reflecting on how and why this concept is one of the most important theoretical foundations to support the relationship between geography and literature.
This work presents an interpretation of the pattern formed by the layout of the major avenues in the Central Sector of Goi & acirc;nia-GO, within the territory of the state of Goi & aacute;s in 1933. Its objective is to elucidate the relationships between this pattern and the shape of the state's territory during that year, as well as to determine whether there are official records indicating that this significance reflects the intention of the city's urban planner, Attilio Corr & ecirc;a Lima, or if it is a social construction stemming from the concepts of spatial poetics and the city's collective imagination. The study relies on a bibliographic review and comparison of geographic databases. It concludes that there are similarities between the layout and the geography of Goi & aacute;s, but official documents verifying intentional design are lacking. On the other hand, it acknowledges that these and other interpretations exist despite the intentions of any urban planner for Goi & acirc;nia, as the city is also a social creation of its inhabitants.
This paper aims to present some considerations about the use of some perceptive modalities in the teaching of observational drawing. In view of the resistance of a part of the beginners' students in the courses of Architecture and Urbanism, the starting point was the assumption about the need to overcome the prejudices of an ideal graphic representation committed to visual verisimilitude in learning to draw. During the development of the research, some didactic activities were elaborated, which were carried out between 2016 and 2022, in the elective discipline Urban Scketching (DPRT-FAU-UFJF) configured as an alternative to the traditional drawing teaching. The methodology employed included a theoretical review based on Phenomenology, with emphasis on the multisensory image theme, as well as an empirical description of the activities carried out in the eleventh class, entitled: "Serial sensations"- in allusion to the "Serial Vision" proposed by Gordon Cullen. Based on the selection of graphic and textual descriptions made by the students in the exercise, the research findings are finally discussed, in view of the initially raised assumption.
The Caatinga, located in the backlands of Bahia, has historically been stereotyped as something bad and dry. The image of the Caatinga reduced to cracked ground, cattle skeletons, and the scorching sun is rooted in colonization, which weaves prejudices, reaffirms the bleeding of the land, the exploitation of natural resources and the expulsion of the native people. Thus, the research aims to understand how Caatinga is portrayed in colonial documents, tensioning the sense of colonial Sameness through geography and historicity. We analyzed the "Single" Manuscript Documents of the Captaincy of Bahia between the years (1604-1828), contained in the Rescue Project belonging to the Overseas Historical Archive (AHU) in Lisbon, containing references to the Caatinga. Paleography was used to translate and analyze the colonial letters. In this sense, resuming these colonial documents enables an important counter-colonial movement, showing new approaches to the Caatinga, in addition to countering the distorted imagery reproduced since colonization and embedded in contemporary times.
Art has been gaining prominence as a geographical theme, far removed from positivist approaches, which surround science with certainties, objectivity and materiality in their reflections and theoretical, empirical and methodological choices. From a humanist perspective, geography values experiences, subjectivities and memories, traversing the spatial fabric as the art of the lived. In this sense, the purpose of presenting ways of seeing, feeling and experiencing space, based on everyday elements, highlights the geography of being, providing new clues for interpreting the spatiality contained in the actions, which in this article come from the Jo & atilde;o Paulo II Mothers' Group, located in the Cidade Nova neighborhood, Natal (RN). We used observation, conversations (with open scripts) and photographic records of the weekly meetings of the women who are members of the group to highlight the spatial poetics of everyday life revealed in the art of living and feeling.
This article analyzes the linguistic and geographic dialogic of "Grande Sert & atilde;o: Veredas", by Jo & atilde;o Guimar & atilde;es Rosa, the main bibliographical source of this work. The purpose is to reflect on the plurality of the Roseana language and the customs of the characters, which reveal themselves as a richness of the typical and regional culture of the interior of Minas Gerais. For this, both bibliographical research on the perception narrated by Riobaldo, with regard to the countryside landscape, and on other sources that address such themes intrinsic to the work were used. In this way, the representativeness of the landscapes of the Minas Gerais sert & atilde;o, the linguistic and cultural symbolism of the sertaneja communities, authorities, "jagun & ccedil;os" and other peoples that reinforce how this fictional environment is interdisciplinary in the sphere of Geography and Literature.
The article approaches the centenary musical genre of frevo, taking as reference the link of its popular songbook with the city of Recife, a place of inspiration, memory and affection for its composers. Frevo was born in the capital of Pernambuco, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, greeting and rhythming the momesca revelry in the streets, bridges, squares and central neighborhoods of the city. In this trajectory, memories of Recife, traces of its estuarine geography and carnival characters were evoked in the lyrics of frevo, singularized by an emotional and identity connection of its authors with the "Capital of Frevo". In these affective bonds emanate existential geographies in songs of romantic and nostalgic ethos written by composers of the greatness of Nelson Ferreira, Capiba, Ant & ocirc;nio Maria and Luiz Bandeira, whose trajectories, songs and affiliations to Recife are revisited, between the decades of 1930 and 1970, period of greater diffusion of frevo in Brazil.
This essay analyzed the symbolic construction of landscape archetypes on different planets displayed in the filmic space of three films from the prequel trilogy of the Star Wars franchise, through the selection of two planets/scenarios from each film. Based on articulation between authors from Cultural Geography who discuss landscape as a socially constructed cultural product, and also authors from Geography of Cinema, it was examined how different landscapes were mobilized to contribute to the narrative told in screen and add symbolic elements to the filmic space of this universe. It is argued towards the idea of constructing landscape archetypes, synthetic generalizations regarding landscape units such as deserts, forests and hell, which are widely used in popular culture and which contribute to the shared construction of landscape symbolism.
This text is the translation of the first chapter of the book "Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology", by anthropologist Michael Jackson, consisting of a set of essays written between 1989 and 2009. The chapter "Scope of Existential Anthropology", translated here, consists of an introduction, in which the author presents his anthropological-phenomenological approach as a counterpoint to anthropologies that base their foundations on collective representations, whether cultural or social.
This paper addresses the territorial performance of microcredit institutional services on periphery of Sobral-CE (Cear & aacute;), understanding the arrangements generated by microcredit and its cultural implications among residents/microcredit institutions in peripheral neighborhoods, triggered by the adoption of the solidarity guarantee (mutual collaboration for microcredit approval) and in the formation of businesses/services and commercial activities. The discussion focuses on reflecting upon the individual performance sustained by a substrate of beliefs, thoughts and affections that occur in the implementation of an entrepreneurial culture in the poor neighborhood of the city, and which can transform certain models of solidarity between microcredit institutional services and residents, as well as lead to the breakdown of ties between microcredit borrowers, especially when the commitments between the members of the solidarity guarantee group are not fulfilled with the banks. These situations alter the social dynamics, the territorial performance of borrowers, and the entrepreneurial practices within and between neighborhoods.
