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The representational space of Amazonas’ amateur football presents great amount of richness in the appropriation of its elements, creating complex relations and territorialities. One of these appropriation forms occurs when football is vinculated to (religious or folkloric) festivals. So, the present study aims at analyzing the way football is associated to festivals in the representational space of Amazonas’ amateur football.

The debate around the “future city” carries the need to unveil the constitutive processes of the city, like the processes which have been explaining and giving a historical and social character for the city. Enlightening the social production of the city, understood as a lived socio-spatial praxis, offer the possibility to transcends the formal appearance of the city.

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This work translates the results of a qualitative research which employed the theoretical tennets of Cultural Geography. One of its research goals was to map the motivations of 30 car owners, in the city of Curitiba, who vehiculated personal messages on their car plates through the combinations of letters and algarisms. The plates were chosen for this research as elements which allowed the researcher to understand the construction of the object Car as a “place”, and of the related territorialities developed by them on the streets of Curitiba. The data collected and generated during the fieldwork stage, in which the above mentioned cars’ owners were interviewed, led to the use of diverse theoretical approaches, such as the Social Representation Theory, Ethnometodoly, Phenomenology, and also the concept of Transverse Mass Culture. For the analysis of the results, the concepts of “place” and “territory” were employed as the necessary tools to systematize, understand, and present the data obtained under the guidance of the discipline of Cultural Geography.

The objective of this article is to contribute with the studies concerning the joints between commerce and city in the measure where the appearance of new commercial forms has an striking in the process of production of the urban space. Functioning, relations social, merchandises, movements internal and external, and everything what of the life to the traditional markets, fairs and other said types of commerce, they are each time more attractive to the point of if becoming, today, in different, that it resists in way what if became homogeneous, the such as the forms that shelters the called modern commerce, as shopping centers. This dynamics of the commerce motivated a in progress research, which comes studying the paper of the markets, the fairs, the grocery, the diverse galleries and other types of commerce, which, historically, they incur into changes in the city. The starting point of the analyses is the markets and the fairs surviving in way to the pressure it growth of the metropolis, a time transformed into leisure centers (cultural, gastronomical, tourist, etc.). The text privileges the first part of the research; systemize a survey of bibliographical sources/theoreticians, especially to those related to the historical development of the commerce, of the unfolding of the commercial exchanges that, to the few, demand shelters for the permanent functioning in the city.

The article presents the methodological records of researches perfomed in the city of João Pessoa -PB, having as main purpose to analyse the practice of rural activities and maintenance of rural land on the urban environment. The awakening for the theme, the paths taken to reach the definiton of this investigation are described and narrated on the perspective of sharing and helping other researchers who are insterested in the subject. The methodological procedures used in each “field” of analysis - the dairy farms, the vaquejadas parks and the cattle fair - are exposed, revealing inclusively the difficulties found in the research conduct. In addition to the procedures, are registered the main concepts and theoretical foundations which justified the studies. The article structure consists of an introduction and the units of procedures which are divided into: discovering the dairies in the city; the house; the corral; the vaquejada and the cattle fair.

In the last three decades, it was noticed that the traditional bonfire festivals that happen in the home and its surroundings have become commoditized and megatouristified events. In this paper, it is analyzed the process of spectacularization of June festivities in private space in the cities of Amargosa and Cruz das Almas, where festivities take place in arenas very well known in the State of Bahia, held in farms near urban areas. This kind of event is seen as a business opportunity for the promoters and the breweries involved and as a form of reinvented entertainment in June festive period for thousands of young people from several regions of the state territory and the state capital.

Since 1995 Natal city observes the production of a new form of housing, they are the closed horizontal condominiums Green Village, which provides a revolution in the natalense real estate market, considering since then a number of other ventures are being launched. So, this study has the objective of analyze the expansion of these enterprises in Natal city, with emphasis on the strategies by real estate agents for marketing of these new ventures and the socio-spatial implications which they cause. Thus data were collected from sources and procedures. In the level which concern the sources, realized a documental bibliographic research about topics related to the issue in question in the libraries, public and private institutions; in the level concerning the procedures, or the production of information, we did interviews and questionnaire applications with the main social agents in the subject of the closed horizontal condominiums in Natal city. From the study performed, we understand that the closed horizontal condominiums to expand in the Natal’s urban space bring in its soul a series of changes to the city in its totality.

The empirical analysis of the invisible reproduction of social and spatial inequalities in Brazilian cities demands a specific approach. The following article highlights this approach while taking a critical view on a geography of social inequality. It intends to conceptually contribute to the ongoing research into the causes of perpetuating injustices and examining space as a powerful factor in the reproduction of social inequality. This approach, which is one of hermeneutical geography, aims to understand the structure of the city in its social construction. Taking the idiographic example of Salvador in Brazil background knowledge was acquired following the principles of grounded theory. The approach should be seen as a transferable concept also applicable to other metropolises and societies that are part of the so called “modern periphery” (SOUZA 2000, 2006). The “modern periphery” is characterized by hidden mechanisms perpetuating the logic of social domination and subordination. The specific geographical focus of this approach is to understand the fragmented and divided urban space, coming from different social dispositions. This shall be examined at the example of the social construction and meaning of the favelas.

This paper aims at describing the experience of a qualitative field research in Geography under a humanistic approach. The field research was carried out in Itacaré, located in the south of Bahia state, aiming at understanding how the individuals from Itacaré perceive Rio das Contas, what the river means to them. We have chosen oral history as field research method and the techniques of oral interview, observation and the record of landscapes through photography. Our presence in Itacaré was critical for the field research’s success as we could get to know better the people and their everyday life, which contributed for the quality of the information contained in the 41 oral interviews collected. Also, staying with these people was a valuable experience under the Humanistic Geography perspective.

This paper aims at conducting a review of the concept of landscape in geography and will focus on the relationship that this concept has always maintained with the concept of culture. From a traditional timeline, the analysis is divided into three parts: first, we evaluate the interaction between landscape and culture in classical geography, in the second part, in modern geographies and, at last, in the postmodern geographies.

The bibliography on the concept of landscape and its affinity with geographical science is huge. The focus, however, lies mostly on the history of the concept that goes from the positive approaches of the XIX century to both the functionalist and cultural approaches, which assumed increasing importance since late XX century. It is noticed, in general, that both the descriptive and the utilitarian approaches are giving way to approaches which attempt to grasp the essence of geo-environmental relations as well as their processes. This article aims at discussing such concept in the light of the posits of the so-called Russian School headed by Victor Sotchava and supported by Frenchmen Jean Tricart and Georges Bertrand and by Brazilian Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro. It also includes a brief assessment of the scenery that is, little by little, being built in face of the possibilities of the new technologies. It is clear that, despite important development of the monitoring techniques as well as of the cartographic technologies, the scope of empiric modes capable of translating the complexities of the integrated dynamics of the environment is still an unresolved issue.

The relations established between climate and health are numerous and have come a long way since antiquity. Climatology and epidemiology have close historical ties which have become increasingly close to each other along their evolutionary lines due to currently environmental problems that produce impact on the human health. This paper mainly aims to bring some considerations upon the interfaces of these two areas of knowledge, focusing on methods and techniques common in studies of interdisciplinary character. The climate and health binomial is of great particular interest of numerous professionals involving discussions of inter and multidisciplinary nature. The space in the context of this theme represents an important category of analysis, being designed as a historical contingency of the social reproduction process, generating the need for economic and social organization of a particular spatial planning. In Geography, space is physical, is economical, political, and there is, therefore, no way of thinking man abstracting of this category. Within the framework of epidemiological studies, the space has been considered under different approaches, beyond the mere identification of causal factors, involving increasingly, the establishment of the environmental and social context in which the health phenomena are processed. In short, the issues presented here are directly associated with the existing gap in the increasingly globalised world and at the same time committed to the society-nature relationship.

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In the Tocantins State, the recent dynamic of the urban network reviles significant changes, reflex of the political, economic, social and cultural transformation, for it has passing this area, especially after the political device of the Tocantins State and the Goiás State and the insertion of Eastern Amazon in 1989. In this context, of the research objective to show the occurrence of the processes between Porto Nacional and Palmas towns, or, to understand the implications of the construction of Palmas, the projected capital, to Porto Nacional, one of the main centre of the antique of the north of the Goiás State, today Tocantins, considering the urban-regional role and the processes of re-hierarquization

In the Tocantins State, the recent dynamic of the urban network reviles significant changes, reflex of the political, economic, social and cultural transformation, for it has passing this area, especially after the political device of the Tocantins State and the Goiás State and the insertion of Eastern Amazon in 1989. In this context, of the research objective to show the occurrence of the processes between Porto Nacional and Palmas towns, or, to understand the implications of the construction of Palmas, the projected capital, to Porto Nacional, one of the main centre of the antique of the north of the Goiás State, today Tocantins, considering the urban-regional role and the processes of re-hierarquization.

This article has as objective to analyze, comparatively the models of management territory adopted in municipalities of Luis Eduardo Magalhães, Maracás e Pintadas/ Bahia since the year 2000. Building on the importance of the contexts, of the areas resources and the actions, the results of that article show significantly variations in the municipalities with the emergence of the new models of management expressing Brazil’s decentralized environment.

The dynamic sociospatial of the small cities constitutes important study object for the Urban Geography. Accordingly, that work objectifies to present the Urban Profile of three small cities from Rio Grande do Norte: Nova Cruz, Montanhas and Lagoa d’Anta. For this, analyzes the economic picture and its specificities, with emphasis in the tertiary activities, linked to the commercial enterprises and the services developed in its territories. That urban functional reality has been generating relationships among those towns, starting from the economic dynamics and of the productive capacity of the which they are part. So, they should be understood as integral elements of the capitalist system, where they prevail singularities that they are expressed through the economic structures, politics, social and of its space interrelations.

The territory is one of the most important notions in Geography, as concept and as category which orients the sociospatial researches and problematics; in the most cases, it was associated with studies on the field of the Political Geography, related to the Nation-States. However, another perspective of territory always has been latent: the one about small groups or individuals which constitute territories from the lived space dimension. At Brazil, in the last two decades, theoretical studies mentioned this phenomenon as empirical researches about them arose up. This paper presents a review and discussion about these contributions and their theoretical and methodological basis and it will point the absence of Phenomenology on this researches and the pertinence insertion of this philosophic ground to clarify the lived dimension of territory.