{"title":"Iná Elias de Castro","description":"\u003cp\u003eBertha K. Becker - Professora do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Claudio Gonçalves Egler - Professor do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Iná Elias de Castro - Professora do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Júlia Adão Bernardes - Professora do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Leila Christina Dias - Professora do Departamento de Geociências (UFSC); Lia Osório Machado - Professora do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Marcelo Lopes de Souza - Professor do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Maria Célia Nunes Coelho - Professora do NAEA\/UFPA; Maurício de Almeida Abreu - Professor do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ); Roberta Lobato Corrêa - Professor do Departamento de Geografia (UFRJ) e Rogério Haesbaert - Professor do Departamento de Geografia (UFF).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"geografia-conceitos-e-temas","title":"Geography: Concepts and Themes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeography: Concepts and Themes\u003c\/em\u003e is the result of a joint effort to reflect on and update debates in contemporary Geography, not only with regard to the reconstruction of its founding concepts but also the possibilities of their application to the problems faced by modern societies.\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, the target audience is made up of professionals linked to higher education, undergraduate students, graduates seeking an update, professionals from other areas who are interested in these reflections, and all those interested in problems that affect spatial dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159247995132,"sku":"9788528605457","price":109.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/601ad7d85c53e5256be15b00906b01f2_1ef0d5c7-a58e-4712-8327-34f669c03526.jpg?v=1778315016"},{"product_id":"brasil-questoes-atuais-da-reorganizacao-do-territorio","title":"Brazil: Current Issues in Territorial Reorganization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrazil: Current Issues in Territorial Reorganization\u003c\/em\u003e is part of an editorial project that aims to renew the thematic content of Brazilian Geography. Its overarching goal is to offer an up-to-date, high-quality, and easily accessible and understandable national bibliography, without compromising the complexity required to address the topics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e At the same time, its content reflects the need to communicate new perspectives that have been gaining ground in geographical thought and that focus primarily on Brazilian space. It is, therefore, the product of a mature academic community that, having developed certain lines of thought, seeks to disseminate them not only among its peers but also to a wider readership interested in up-to-date information about the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThus, all the articles in this volume investigate the dynamics that, directly or indirectly, influence the organization of space in Brazil. They are also, as a whole, the result of long years of research by academic groups and laboratories led by university professors, mostly from or alumni of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). They thus return public resources invested through the University and other research funding institutions, especially CNPq and FINEP, to their rightful owners, Brazilian society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This is a significant dimension of academic research, especially in the current context of discussions on the university-society relationship, reinforcing the former's commitment to producing up-to-date, consistent, and useful information for the latter. Brazilian Geography, once again, fulfills its role of making visible the dynamics to which the national territory is subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eTaken together, the works that comprise the book demonstrate the specificity of geographic science, which articulates different levels of analysis, enabling diverse interpretations of the same phenomenon—a fundamental epistemological attribute of geography. Since the geographic approach to reality faces the basic problem of size, which ranges from local to planetary space, and since territory is the axis of the problems discussed here, the notion of scale of phenomena contributes as a fundamental methodological resource in addressing these issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this sense, the works gathered here constitute empirical material that allows us to reflect on some propositions useful for understanding the operationality of the scale of the phenomena studied, with the organization of the themes presented based on the already traditional approaches to geographical analyses, that is, global, national, regional and local, not to obey criteria of preserving a tradition, but as an operational mode of the geographical treatment of phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBrazil: Current Issues in Territorial Reorganization\u003c\/em\u003e is a coherent collection of texts resulting from diverse research, whose central focus is the study of the new dynamics at work in restructuring the national territory. This book responds to the urgent need to rethink the country in light of the complex contexts forged by contemporary times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159479501052,"sku":"9788528605884","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3ce72cca1ff0ef547634ff878f1772f2_9c9c0737-7fdd-40c2-a357-f6f2fff0c75a.jpg?v=1778322552"},{"product_id":"geografia-e-politica-territorio-escalas-de-acao-e-instituicoes","title":"Geography and politics: Territory, scales of action and institutions","description":"More than addressing the very general problem of the relationship between space and politics, which can say everything or nothing, Iná Elias de Castro's Geography and Politics seeks to understand how politics, in its institutional and operational sense, has invaded the most diverse dimensions of the contemporary world, and confronts us with the need to study how geography is informed by politics today. To this end, it proposes to go beyond the perspective of grand explanatory models, now questioned by their limitations, and resorts to a theoretical-conceptual pluralism more suited to analyzing the many dimensions of today's seemingly contradictory phenomena. Despite the disenchantment of the present, strongly marked by the frustrations of the unfulfilled promises of the Enlightenment, both liberal and socialist, and the end of the utopias that gave rise to political and social movements focused on building a better future, this book is careful not to fall into the trap of facile relativism and nihilism, which dismiss us from the tiring but necessary commitment to understanding reality through the incessant dialogue of theoretical elaboration with the phenomenon—a dialogue that only research and the construction of knowledge can facilitate. After all, only in this way is it possible to pose new questions and, with knowledge of reality, be able to transform it. Some themes are addressed here based on conceptual foundations and intellectual perspectives appropriate to a field of knowledge conventionally called political geography, as well as others, closer to political science, but which are undoubtedly relevant to understanding space as an arena of conflict. The choice of discussions was not casual or determined by a commitment to the discipline's intellectual tradition. On the contrary, it is quite innovative and oriented toward polemicizing what has been rejected within it, such as the discussion of the nation-state and what has been incorporated into geography—icons such as power and globalization. Furthermore, still from the perspective of polemics, specific questions about Brazilian political geography are included. The scale of phenomena is incorporated as a necessary reference and differentiation for the actions of political actors and for the construction of political spaces, understood as those of conflict and confrontation inherent in the coexistence of differences, but also of negotiation, cooperation, and agreements.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175782072572,"sku":"9788528611618","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3d9679c855f00a46f5db1deb5b724b86.jpg?v=1778322051"},{"product_id":"redescobrindo-o-brasil","title":"Rediscovering Brazil","description":"Rediscovering Brazil addresses relevant topics in Geography, Territorial Management, and Development. Its main goal is to understand contemporary Brazil facing the challenges of globalization and South American integration, even if some texts attempt to situate these issues within a theoretical context. And it is precisely in this aspect that the book assumes importance. The process of financial integration on a global scale, far from leading to the end of Geography, demonstrates its relevance for understanding the accelerated changes occurring in the territory and the rebirth of place as a seminal nucleus of culture and ideas. In the pores of homogenization, technological advances are highlighting differences, and the Internet is a mosaic of languages and disparate attitudes toward the modern world. Indeed, for the first time in human history, the true meaning of the world, as a community of ideas coexisting in the same habitat, becomes real on a planetary scale. However, this does not mean the end of conflict, but rather its emergence in new forms. Networks connect places, but do not occupy them. By breaking down the borders of nation states, they allow the emergence of a modern form of spatial \"Bonapartism\"—that is, the absence of hegemonic power over the entire territory, opening gaps where nuclei generate alternative networks and loci of survival for the excluded. Only in this way is it possible to understand how, in the heart of MERCOSUR, the largest economic bloc south of the Equator, territories such as the \"Triple Frontier\" or the \"Pontal do Paranapanema\" emerge, as places distinguished by alternative forms of power. To help understand these apparent enigmas inscribed within Brazilian territory, the organizers of this book have selected a set of texts that address the spatial theme in its various facets. The controversial aspects of South American integration are analyzed, highlighting its advances and pointing out the contradictions between goals assumed by governments and the real results for the population directly involved. A discussion on the urban and regional framework in contemporary Brazil evaluates the effects of recent processes, still little covered by statistics, on the organization of Brazilian space. The contribution of the theory of modern Geography to current thinking points here to the importance of the cultural dimension in the architecture of space, while the geometry of centers and margins in the recent design of the territory is discussed, with emphasis on the role of those who are on the margins of the transformations that occur at the center of decisions. Regarding borders, a reflection on the new meaning of their multiple dimensions discusses the role of technical and scientific knowledge in the new delimitation and scope of national sovereignty. Current problems of territorial management and the limits of governability at various scales of management, as well as the emergence of new, not always legal, networks of power exercise in space, are addressed from the perspective of disputes and territorial representation of political actors. Globalization and sustainable development are notions still fraught with controversy, their scope still poorly defined. The impacts of new ways of organizing production, in rural and urban areas, and of utilizing the original frontiers of wealth—land and labor—are also discussed. The book is completed with analyses of technical changes and their impacts on spatial structure, both for production and the daily lives of social agents. With this comprehensive panel, the organizers hope that readers will not only have broadened their understanding of the uncertainties of this end-of-the-century kaleidoscope, but also be convinced that today, more than ever, Geography lives.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176834875644,"sku":"9788528607079","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2744288e3a198c1a81008ffc7e7768e1.jpg?v=1776894629"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/ina-elias-de-castro.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}