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The analysis concerning criminality at/of the places, by printed media, have produced a reflection about the representations of space and spaces of representation in Salvador metropolis. The data used in the analysis were extracted from the newspapers A Tarde and Correio da Bahia, in the year of 2009, involving the following data: types of violence, location’s occurrence of crimes and characterizations of theirs victims. The results have demonstrated the recognition of heterogeneous places in Salvador metropolis, but without producing analysis of the contradictions experienced in such spaces. The description about violent acts, locations and peoples, often, were copied from reports from the Police. The heterogeneous places when not detailed and not interrelated with contexts experienced in the metropolis, solidified the representations of spaces and reduces, for example, the problem of violence to the simple aspect of criminality. The present article defenses that, the study of place needs the deepening of life space articulated whit conceived and perceived spaces, something already considered important by journalists, but practiced by few, in the writing process of news about violence in Brazil.

The Parque Estadual da Pedra da Boca (PEPB), located in Araruna city (PB), is rich in tourism attractions attention for exuberance and uniquenes of natural landscapes, which are directly related to the geological and geomorphological aspects. The aim of this research is to identify, to analyse and to map the geodiversity of PEPB, for subsiding reflections about is potential, use geotourism an, consequently, the establishment of de the strategies related to the geo-conservation of these sites. The methodology used was related to the pertinent bibliographic review, Field work, tabulation and data analysis. Given this approach it is concluded that the Park presents a rich geodiversity, however, it is necessary to make a planning with a view to use for tourism.

The present article has as objective of analysis integrated for the delimitation of slouch area after period of monthly concentrated rains using products and techniques of Remote Sensing together with the use of the Geographic Information System. The result of the study was presented satisfactory, therefore it allowed, not only, to delimit the subject to flooding area of the Region of Brejo Grande, in the city of the Serra, state of the Espirito Santo, Brazil, as well as to understand the operative dynamics of superficial waters in the e region consequences in the adjacencies as in the bay of Vitória. Such methodology also makes possible the delimitation of other subject to flooding areas in the state and regions of Brazil with the same characteristics, consisting in important information in the aid in the taking of decisions.

Ce teste cherche à participer d´une interminable discussion sur question du classement des sciences. Catte discussion, loin d'être scientifique ou académique est uni discussion politique. Une source d'inspiration de cette reflexion a été I'oeuvre de Abraham Moles, Prix Nobel de Mathématique. Eant la Géographie une science que parfois est classée comme science de la nature, parfois comme science humaine et sociale. Catte discussion a inspirée aussi cet article. II attire I' ATTENTION SUR LA necessité, pour cette de prendre en consideration les caracteristiques du monde contemporain que par sa nature bouleverse, d'un jour à I"autre, n'importe quelle classification scientifique. Ainsi, par exmple, est proposé ici que I'espace géographique soit pris comme une catégorie d'analyse sociale et non plus comme um scène où la vie et les activités humaines se derroullent, comm toujours il a été consideré par la géographie il y a un siècle.

This paper aims from the philosophy of symbolic forms, the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, a possibility of approach to religion which is subject to geographical analysis. The linguistic turn in social science enables a deepening of the geographer in the symbolic world. The man must be understood as a homo symbolicum that seeks to make sense of their immediate reality, starting from the symbolic forms, including religion. This approach is based on the subject, which is characterized as a phenomenology that is interested in knowing/comprehend how religion works and, symbolic conformation of the world.

This paper analyzes the importance of natural patrimony in the urban environment, under the prism of geography. The main objective of this study is to understand how nature is perceived in the city of Coimbra (Portugal) and the role that green areas and natural patrimony has in the quality of urban life. To achieve these objectives, this article discusses the conceptual argument about environmental perception, topophilia and the nature in the city. For this, it was used two different procedures: (1) Field analysis on the city of Coimbra with purpose to setting up a photographic database, to verify the presence, conservation and relationship to the natural patrimony inserted in urban environment; (2) Investigation through interviews in two neighborhoods of the city – Vale das Flores and Monte Formoso. The data revealed that the perception and the topophilic relationship to urban green areas are marked by the contradiction between practice and discourse. It was concluded that the presence of natural patrimony in the urban environment still present itself as a secondary issue. Moreover, it was concluded that to strengthen this relationship symbolically and/or functionally the natural patrimony must be present throughout all the continuous urban areas and should not be restricted to elite neighborhoods or parks.

The maroon communities keep alive, even today, centenary practices brought by their ancestors from Africa. These practices, besides cultural, relate to the religiosity , politics and forms of production, involving agricultural techniques, forms of soil management, planting forms, becoming in an intimate relationship of these communities with the environment in which they are inserted, starting from the development of conservationist techniques and rational use of natural resources, thus ensuring the maintenance of biodiversity for the benefit of future generations. Their achievements had passed automatically for a period of democratization of the country in which the black movement and leaderships of Quilombolas communities had intensified the fight for rights that would guarantee citizenship to these communities. The aim of this paper is to analyze the achievements that occurred from these movements that ensured the beginning of their rights when involved in the process of elaboration of the Constitution of 1988, they ensured the right to preserve their identity and culture, as well as the right of title deed of occupied lands by several years by a people who was opposed to the slave regime and formed a new model of society and social relations.

At present, there is extensive geographical research and publication focusing on the comparison among metropolises, mid-size cities, agricultural zones, and conservation units. In many cases, however, that intellectual output is not preceded by any in-depth methodological discussion, in such way that comparisons are simply made between two or more similar geographical areas. Thus, this paper aims at discussing a few themes concerning the application of the comparative method in Geography. To that end, there will be three main discussion points: (a) a conceptual framework concerning the methodological approach herein, (b) a historiographical review that seeks to establish, in the history of geographical thought, the moments in which the comparative perspective was a concern among science writers; and, at last, (c) an exploratory analysis about the adequacy of using the comparative approach in contemporary geography, taking into consideration the relative complexity of building local technical scientific informational databases. Therefore, the need to understand the relation between the creation of similarity spaces, which are generated within a global logic, and spaces of difference, which result from a local effort to preserve unique characteristics, suggests that the comparative method may play a key role in geographical studies.

This article aims to contribute to the study of the ontology of space in the work of Martin Heidegger. To do so, within the limitations of this work, we analyze the characteristics of Heideggerian phenomenology, pointing out how the German philosopher thinks his philosophy as an alternative to traditional metaphysics conceived in modernity. The main objective here is to focus discussion on the meaning of man as being in the world, understanding space as a category of analysis of great importance to man-in-the-world, to society and, therefore, for science geographical.

La ville de Aracati (Ceará/Brésil), manifeste, par la morphologie urbaine, des vestiges de son apogée économique, hérités du XVIII ème siècle. L’architecture et le dessin urbain rémanents sont des supports de la mémoire e révélant des singularités locales qui la distinguent d’autres bourgs crées dans la même période historique. L’organisation de l’espace est le résultat des forces qui ont agi dans sa production, comme l’Église, les confréries religieuses, l’État portuguais, les agentes économiques (fermiers, commerçants, “charqueadores”), le Conseil municipal et d’autres groupes sociaux ont été identifiés et analysés. Comprendre la trame entre ces agents révèle des moments uniques de cette mémoire urbaine, ce qui explique la production spatiale. À travers le paysage urbain, on peut vérifier la logique des éléments bâtis: le tracé urbain droit, avec des rues larges coupées par de petites rues visait l’adéquation avec la dynamique économique de l’époque; l’architecture résidentielle avec des façades identiques ont été le modèle urbain choisi et imposé par le gouvernement portuguais. Les temples réligieux montrent l’influence et le pouvoir de l’Église Catholique dans l’órganisation sociospatiale. La construction de la ville avec les façades au sens inverse du fleuve Jaguaribe est dû, à l’époque, à l’insalubrité des locaux puisque les dechets de la ville étaiant jettés dans les eaux de ce fleuve. La compréhension, dans le temps et dans l’espace, de la formation sociospatiale de la ville d’Aracati et ses environs est possible grâce à cette étude.

The present article seeks to analyze the repercussion of the Land Law (1850) and other norms installed between 1850 and mid-twentieth century, over the land structure in the city of Parahyba. The research is based on the Historical Geography perspective, regarded by Philo (1997) as a sub-discipline whose main goal is to spatialize the phenomena of the past aiming at comprehending the processes that have led the current reality to be this. The starting point is to understand that a critical study is built up by means of interaction of temporal succession along with the spatial simultaneity for an eventual land structure analysis of the main streets of the city of Parahyba to be presented. The urban soil’s privatization process institutionalized by the Land Law (1850) is believed to be an important mark for the comprehension of the city, of urban life and, finally, of the street. Thus, the focus was on the incidence of the Land Law on the main streets of the city of Parahyba which are Rua General Osório (Rua Nova/ Marques do Herval), Duque de Caxias (Rua Direita) and Visconde de Pelotas (Rua da Cadeia). Thus, it is revealed that the norms which provide support to the urban land privatization, salubrity and embellishment of the city have changed not only the land structure but also the morphology and contents of the city and city life as well.

The sounds transmitted through vibrations in air are produced in different forms and ways, by nature or by human beings. Many sounds exist in the nature like wind sounds, water sounds and animal sounds. The humans produced sounds like speech, work sounds, musics and others. Therefore, they can organize sounds to communicate and nowadays they found out the possibility of the keep sounds to reproduce it in differents places. The humanity communicate ideas and cultural values through the speech or music. The most recent spread musics that are related with audiovisual language showed the landscapes of places and it also communicate, reflect and gives rise distinct territorialities space. It research verifies the relations among soundscapes and construction of multiterritorialities, starting of examples of the identities, which are created considering movements, music styles and yours territories and territorialities.

The paper makes a review and a critical analyzes by a new area of the geographic researches that has been presented as Geographies of Cinema. By this review the author proposes a new and more abridgment area of geographic researches, the Audio Visual Geographies, that includes not only the Geographies of Cinema, but also the geographic analyzes of television productions, of the propaganda, of the animations, of the video games and others. That new area proposed pretend open the possibility of geographic analyzes and didactic use of the audio visual language in all of your forms.

This research is the result of an investigation into the symbolic representation of St. John´s festive space of Maracanau during the june cycle parties in Fortaleza´s Metropolitan Region. Those events have lost their “country party” characteristics and acquired festival formats and “urban entertainment” conditions, adding to festive space new options of scenarios and features focused on the attraction and retention of the public. This research aims to produce the mapping of St. John´s of Maracanaú party, showing how scenarios are disposed and describing the spatial dynamics observed during the festive period. This research presents as methodological contributions, qualitative approaches and semi-structured interviews. The empirical research was conducted on July, 2011, at Maracanau, a city that belongs to Fortaleza´s Metropolitan Region.

This paper aimed to provide subsidies to the actions of methodological environmental planning Superagui National Park through the identification of homonym signS in the analysis of the landscape. The theoretical and methodological contributions were based on the interface of the knowledge of Humanistic-Cultural Geography, in its phenomenological origin, with Semiotics and Linguistics theories. The research used as a tool the mental maps, with a methodology for interpreting the meaning of the signs of mental images constituted in the essence of the phenomenological interviews associated with theories of signs of Charles Peirce and Stephen Ullmann linguistic. With the identification of homonym signs landscape in conservation areas sought to unravel the root of social and environmental conflicts, cultural and economic aspects of a social group. It is proposed that research with a way to re-discuss and mediate disagreements between the interests of social actors, opening up new prospects for diagnosis of environmental planning policies in conservation areas.

This work is a reflection on issues addressed in the context of global changes related to climate, more specifically on the issue of CFC’s and the ozone layer besides some of its theoretical and technical aspects. Implications of different kinds are assessed, such as political and economic issues arising from response actions to the problems attributed to its production and its connotations from the Montreal Protocol and Vienna. It is also discussed the effectiveness of these actions and their impacts on the environment, making a reflection on the role of science and its links with the economy and their correlation with the incidence of radiation, among other aspects to the west of Bahia.

The paper examines the recent diversity (2000 to 2010) of the total population of the State of Bahia, micro-regions, urban population, population of cities and the rural population. Official data from Brazilian Censuses of 2000 and 2010 were used. Demographic spatial analyses were produced through the cartographic representation based on natural breaks classification from data. The State’s total population growth of 7.27% in the last decade (or 0.70% p.a.), was lower than the previous decade and is lower than in the Northeast and in Brazil. The urban population grew 15.16% (1.42% p.a.), the population of cities, 14.59% (1.37% p.a.) and the rural population, -8.93% (-0.93% p.a.) The rates are quite diversified according to the micro-regions and municipalities. The average growth of cities was higher than the growth of Salvador and its metropolitan area. It is a fact which occurs for the first time in the State of Bahia and indicates an important reduction of the primacy of the capital and the metropolitan region of Salvador. Ongoing changes are of fundamental importance to guide the formulation of public policies more efficient and fair throughout the territory of Bahia.

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The article intents to think parts of the territorial formation´s process of today´s Mato Grosso do Sul through the dialogue with the memorialistic book A Poeira da Jornada: Memórias (1980), written by Demosthenes Martins. This discursive interpretation is useful because it allows to understand how do a social group -represented by the book´s writter - thought forms/contents that spatiality showed before and during a period of time (1964-1979) of the Military Regime in Brazil. Abstract “MEMORY” OF A PERIOD OF TIME /SPACE OF BRAZILIAN MILITARY REGIME: TODAY´S MATO GROSSO DO SUL IN THE BOOK A POEIRA DA JORNADA: MEMORIES The article intents to think parts of the territorial formation´s process of today´s Mato Grosso do Sul through the dialogue with the memorialistic book A Poeira da Jornada: Memórias (1980), written by Demosthenes Martins. This discursive interpretation is useful because it allows to understand how do a social group -represented by the book´s writter - thought forms/contents that spatiality showed before and during a period of time (1964-1979) of the Military Regime in Brazil.

This paper is a research structured in discourse analysis, which reports the process of consolidation, transformation and decay of a culture named “Samba de Couro” (“samba of leather”) in the central region of Rondônia State. Initially founded in a religious tradition to celebrate the birth of Christ, the “samba of leather” arrived Rondônia with the migration process for settlement performed by INCRA (National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform). Nowadays, despite its former religious character in relation with the faith in Holy Ghost, it became a representation of diversion that has been declining for the descendents tradition non-attach.