IMPLICAÇÕES DO REALISMO NA GEOGRAFIA E NO SEU OBJETO DE ESTUDO, A GEOGRAFIA COMO MATERIALIDADE, CATEGORIA DA DETERMINAÇÃO DO REAL

Abstract

It reins certain confusion between geography as materiality and Geography as the science which studies the geographic dimensi on of the world materiality. Geography, as a scientific field is com pound of different actors with specific interests generally gathered in an institute with the broa der objective of promoting and producing geographic studies and their pr ofessional procedures . Several articles ar e then prepared about geography as materiality - the geogr aphy of places, regi ons, cities, national territories and etc by the actors of the geographic science. Formal rules and philosophical influences, which change in sp ace and time, are clearl y evidenced in these studies developed by Geography experts. On the other hand, geography as materiality, an object of study of Geography and a concern to several professionals in the area, is constituted by spatial formats of distinct natu re - physical, biological and social which, all together, compose and change, from th eir own order onwards, different geographic environments. These environments form the territories and the places, concentrate the spatiality and territorialities and are generated by social interests as well as act on them. As a matter of fact, the geographic environm ents are a social continuality, with no mobility in the local scale, but ability to rapid connect ion and long reach once they incorporate techni cal objects. Using materialist realism as a guide, this work intends to highl ight the distinction between Geography as a science and geography as materiality and to reflect on the social-spatial dynamics of the geographic environment based on three words whose concepts have been developed for the anal ysis of geography as materiality: spatiality, geographicity and place