O CONTINENTE LIBERTÁRIO DA GEOGRAFIA

DESCONTINUIDADE NA HISTÓRIA DO PENSAMENTO GEOGRÁFICO

Abstract

In the history of geography, multiple discontinuous matrices accumulate to the regularity of the official scientific and academic knowledge. Among them is the continent of libertarian thought and practice. The official historiography, when narrating the theoretical manifestations of geographical thought, privileged the contributions of an orthodox character, suppressing, sometimes silencing, or even neglecting, other less conventional conceptions, considered in this work as heterodox. Around the classic anarchist characters of geography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a diversity of non-hegemonic productions of knowledge was formed, nourishing less conventional legacies of the past, projecting paradigmatic reorganization or even ruptures in the present. This body of libertarian ideals and telluric practices made up in the past of geography translates into what is today called libertarian geography. The source of this continent is born from the works of Élisée Reclus, Léon Metchnikoff and Pyotr Kropotkin, leaving to the caudal geographic knowledge flow of contribution still little explored. A continent of dissident ideas, within the discursive discontinuities of the history of geography.