Abstract
Having as reference some parts of Ratzel’s Anthropogeography and The History of Mankind, the article aims to discuss the environmental determinism as both a scientific discourse and a form of domination. As the point of departure, the article proposes that the environmental determinism presents Nature as the Other, i.e. as an object of investigation of maximum otherness, establishing reciprocal relationships of domination and subjugation in regards to the human beings. The article argues that this how Classical Geography ended up delineating “the relationship between man and environment as its object. At the same time, a discursive strategy which used science as a tool of legitimating the colonial enterprise was built: the colonies and their “primitive” peoples could be understood as different parts of a different nature, distant and weak, to be dominated by the European explorers.
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