A inflexibilidade do espaço cartográfico, uma questão para a geografia: análise das discussões sobre o papel da cartografia / The inflexibility of space cartography, a matter for the geography: analysis of the discussions on the role of cartography

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2004

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Is there a consensus that Cartography is the ideal language to express Geography? This is one of the key issues of our research. However, what might deserve an obvious affirmative answer, actually does not. Are we not living in a time when Cartography seems to be subtilized by Geography? Are we not losing this resource without putting up a struggle? On the other hand, does any Cartography at all avail Geography? Ascertaining which Cartography might avail Geography, one of the aims of this paper, must take into account the theoretical movements within this discipline - movements that might be deemed a concerted effort of renewal. Perhaps our concern is better expressed as follows: Are there developments in Cartography that are consonant with the renewal of Geography? Our study initially examines if certain changes in school Geography (which, in principle, should be affected by Geographys renewal) have succeeded in reaching school Cartography. Indeed, the more epistemological segment of Geographys renewal has taken on the theoretical reconstruction of the concept of geographic space - with inevitable consequences on cartographic representations. However, we have found an absence of novelty in the realm of school Geography and of hands-on Cartography. This led us to seek other aspects of the relationship between Cartography and Geography in the academic world, the setting where Geographys renewal is supposedly taking place. After exhaustive critical analysis, we have likewise found in academic production only sparse discussion on the relationship between Cartography and Geography, on the renewal of Geography and on the epistemology of Cartography in Brazilian academic papers. Furthermore, we have observed an almost unconscious adherence to a naturalized sort of Cartography, seen as a rigid medium set on immutable bases. Consequently, there are certain gaps in the current thinking on representation and language - and on their role in producing renewed geographic knowledge. What sort of cogitation, what kind of discussion and reflection should Cartography as part of Geography consider? What must be brought up to date in the fields (e.g., that of reflections on languages) where new theoretical acquisitions have occurred? What theoretical considerations might be useful in investigating ways to establish a geographic Cartography that represents geographic space understood as a dimension of the social sphere - as propounded by Geographys renewal? To answer such questions, a certain effort in theoretical Cartography is required, the field in which this paper hopes to make a contribution.

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language linguagem cartografia geográfica cartografia teórica geografia espaço geográfico geographic space geography theoretical cartography. geographic cartography

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