RUY MOREIRA'S SPACE AND INTELLECTUAL TRAJECTORY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

Important intellectual and reference of Brazilian Marxist Geography, Ruy Moreira, “carioca” geographer, was born in the early 1940s, in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of the Republic, center and symbol of Brazilian modernity and the scene of numerous events and political manifestations of national scope. Almost all its spatial trajectory was spent in the metropolitan environment of Rio. São Paulo, state and city, was also present, especially in its intellectual formation. Of proletarian origin, when he was very young he worked in the service sector in a factory complex in Rio, where his formation and left-wing political activism were rooted, in the trade union movement. The interface between Philosophy, Political Economy, History and Geography is the basis of the structure of thought and argumentation, always focused on Brazil, especially to unveil the geoeconomic and political dynamics that drives Brazilian society. This article seeks to present and explore the spatial trajectory of this geographer, seeking to associate it with the construction of his thinking, as well as to discuss the contribution of his work to Brazilian geography.