SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE EUROCENTRIC LOGIC OF THE GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCE AND ITS SUBVERSION WITH THE EMERGENCE OF THE NON-HEGEMONIC KNOWLEDGES

Abstract

doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2009.1402

This article is the result of reflections carried along our trajectory of research at Territorial Study Group/ State University of Ponta Grossa since 2003, involving studies related to the theme “space and gender, sexualities and identities”. Our formation as researchers who divide distresses and inquiries of our role in the construction of Geographic Science is shared here. As we have chosen groups and issues that are less explored by Brazilian geographic community, we have established two topics that has guided our presentation. 1) What are the bases of Brazilian Geographic Science, capable of producing invisibilities and absences of some determined human groups? 2) What is the role of the researcher, who works with the concepts and methods of Geographic Science, in the production of the visibility of the human beings hidden by the established hegemonic scientific standard? Thus, we have carried out a debate on the Eurocentric standard that has characterized the modern Geography and has influenced the Brazilian geographic production. Later on, we have shared our theoretical-methodological options which have made possible to construct a subversive and plural Geography.