Geografia, militância e marxismo: a trajetória de Horieste Gomes e sua participação no Movimento de Renovação da Geografia Brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Weder David de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000003vpr
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4132
• topic: Horieste Gomes; Movimento de Renovação da Geografia; Geografia crítica; Geografia e marxismo; Geography Renewal Movement; Critical geography; Geography and marxism; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

This study aims to understand the participation of teacher Horieste Gomes in the Brazilian Geography Renewal Movement. So, we used the contextual approach method proposed by Berdoulay ([1981] 2003) to help our research. Based on this methodological perspective, we investigated geography development specifically, the so-called Critical Geography and Horieste Gomes participation in the Renewal Movement. We understand that science develops from two important factors: the first is the social context in which it is and the second is the theoretical and methodological bases that will support scientific thinking. In Brazilian Geography, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there was a meeting between these two factors, providing a moment of epistemological rupture and the formation of a new geographical science conception. This meeting enabled a reinterpretation of Geography and its social function, both in the social context, particularly the military dictatorship actions, and the politicalacademic setting, with the possibility of a pure Marxist reading, with no interference. However, to go only to the original Marxism in a political framework developer was not enough. There was a difficult task to be done: join Marxist theory to geographical science. How could that be, since Geography traditionally dealt better with physical aspects than with humans? How to include Marxism in a science that for several years, had only as a method the description? These issues, although secondary in this research, are a difficult mission to the authors, who are the protagonists of Geography Renewal Movement, as Horieste Gomes, with a clearly Leninist conception, he can solve in their own way, all of these problems. First by understanding that the scientific neutrality should not exist for this geographical thinking, which means that the researcher must adhere the worker group, carry out a research focusing on this concept. With this argument, he strongly criticizes the previous currents, Traditional and Quantitative Geography. It is also possible to understand that the geographer can contribute to the formation of a society with transformative consciousness, so, to adopt a dialectical and historical materialism is what best contributes to this process. So, this method is the only one that is able to provide a totalizing and emancipatory analysis. From this point of view, he makes his considerations about geographical knowledge with no dichotomy between Physical and Human Geography. To understand that there is a relationship between human and that it is mediated through work and to understand this, from the historical and dialectical materialism, it is possible to realize that nature is historicized and that man is naturalize, as this relationships gets narrow. Finally, he clarifies that only the socialist mode of production is able to harmonize the relationship between human and nature, since this perspective, nature would not be seen only as a resource and the socialization of contemplation could generate a environmental consciousness.