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Brazilian Geography

In Theory and in the Streets

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  • Is a compilation of how the geography of Brazil has been formed
  • Links academic geography, social movements, and environmental conservation in the Amazon
  • Serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers who study Brazilian geography

Part of the book series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (AGES)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Theoretical Contributions and Challenges for Brazilian Geography

  2. Brazilian Geography, a Geography of the Street

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Rubén C. Lois González

  • Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

    Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior

About the editors

Rubén C. Lois González is a vice president of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He has specialized in urban and cultural geography and is a connoisseur of the geography of Brazil. He was a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) in 2017. He has conducted conferences and published in academic media in Salvador de Bahia, Fernando Pessoa, Recife, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, among other places. Springer has published several books for which he was an editor and co-author.

Marco Mitidiero is the president of the Brazilian National Postgraduate Association in Geography (ANPEGE). He is a professor at the Federal University of Paraíba. He was trained at the University of São Paulo, where he defended his doctoral thesis. He is a specialist in agrarian geography and social movements and has held research positions at Spanish universities. At present, he coordinates numerous networks of exchange and scientific debate among Brazilian universities in the field of geography.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Brazilian Geography

  • Book Subtitle: In Theory and in the Streets

  • Editors: Rubén C. Lois González, Marco Antonio Mitidiero Junior

  • Series Title: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3704-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3703-3Published: 29 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3706-4Published: 30 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3704-0Published: 28 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2198-3542

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-3550

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 427

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Geography, general, Cultural Geography

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