标题：O BRASIL: TERRITÓRIO E SOCIEDADE NO INÍCIO DO SÉCULO 21 – A HISTÓRIA DE UM LIVRO (Brazil: territory and society at the beginning of the 21st century - the history of a book)
出版社：Editora da Universidade Federal de Roraima (EdUFRR)
摘要：We debate the main concepts and arguments that guided the research choices and reflections in the book "O Brasil: Território e Sociedade no início do século 21", written in conjunction with Milton Santos. The article corresponds to a presentation given at the workshop “Cities in the Amazon: 15 years of reflection - cities, networks and urban environments”,at the Study and Research Center for Urban Centers in the Brazilian Amazon (NEPECAB), Federal University of Amazonas, in 2010. Firstly, our intention was to briefly characterize the political and epistemological scenario of the 1990s, when the field research for the book was carried out. Secondly, we dealt with the idea of occupied territory, the underlying concept of the project, its genesis and later happenings. The third point covers the issue of totality and its parts, or, in other words, socio-spatial formation and the regions, as well as the necessity to develop a greater theory and a lesser theory, at the same time we suggest a theory of mediations to outline an overall picture of the country. Fourthly, we explain the analytical plan and the synthetic plan that define the structure of the book and the methodological and operational challenges faced during the research process. Finally, we reflect on the intrinsic relationships between method and policy, both in the interpretation of the present and in the recognition of future tendencies.
关键词：used territory; territorial division of work; globalization; epistemology; ;theory of mediations
