TRANSAMAZÔNICA: WE GO TO THE FIELDS? THE COMMON SENSE SCHOLAR AND THE DEATH OF LIVING

Abstract

doi: 10.12957/geouerj.2016.15679

This article is part of an plan and process that is to investigate the impact of the geographical representations, valued about the Transamazônica highway, beyond, which the effect of this representation, for both the Transamazônica places in Pará (Brazil), as to the knowledge propagated by the geography about these places, on the level of basic education, thought as geopolitical. Our goal is to discuss the relationship between the knowledge propagated by textbooks signed by geographers and their approach by the Amazonia space in general and the Transamazonic space in specific, confronted such knowledge with the geograficity places, to understanding the distance between representation and geographic reality. Starting from space as a phenomenon of existence, methodologically, we developed a literature search of the textbooks and a participatory research, still in process, on the cities of Pacajá and Anapu (Pará), crossed by Transamazônica. As conclusion, we observed the common sense scholar, that impoverishes geographically representations of the Transamazônica and, even criticizing the geopolitical which deprived men and women who live in Transamazônica region, ends up refine such impoverishment, killing the real in favor of a scientific representation that justifies persistent worldviews about the Amazon space.