[Pré-venda] Territory and ontology: social being and the ontogenetic mediation of space

Territory and Ontology: social being and the ontogenetic mediation of space, the author takes on one of the central problems of contemporary geographic thought: the theoretical trivialisation of territory. Rejecting readings that reduce it to metaphor, identity, or a tool of governance, the text proposes a radical turn, returning territory to the plane of the ontology of social being. Grounded in historical-dialectical materialism, the book shows that territory is neither a foundational category nor an explanatory subject, but rather a social form historically produced through socio-spatial practices, class struggle, and the mediations of the State, property, coercion, and consensus. In critically revisiting both classical and contemporary geographical traditions, the author articulates ontology, critique of political economy, and territorial analysis, while rigorously incorporating the determinations of class, race, and gender. This is a theoretical work aimed at those who understand territory not as a description of the world, but as a critical problem of social reproduction and of the concrete possibilities of emancipation.

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Sumário

A NECESSARY REENCOUNTER by Ruy Moreira
GIBA'S PATHWAYS by Eguimar Felício Chaveiro
PREFACE TO THE INTERNATIONAL EDITION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 - Categories, concepts, and the explanation of human existence
CHAPTER 2 - Ratzel in geographic thought: rupture with historicismo and positivism
CHAPTER 3 - From ratzelian protagonism to the ideological downgrading of territory
CHAPTER 4 - The return of territory and the critique of monolithic political geography
CHAPTER 5 - The institutional conception: Jean Gottmann and the limits of institutionalism
CHAPTER 6 - The structural functionalist conception of territory: Milton Santos
CHAPTER 7 - The italian pragmatic utilitarian school and the institutional capture of territory
CHAPTER 8 - Territory, praxis, and the critique of postmodern abstractionism: Beyond typologies, fetishized multiterritoriality, and territory without subjects
CHAPTER 9 - The ontogenesis of territory: social being
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

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Ano de lançamento: 2026
148 páginas
Tamanho: 14x21 cm
ISBN: