THE AGRIBUSINESS PSYCHOSPHERE: GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION AS A POSSIBILITY FOR CLARIFICATION AND REFLECTION

Abstract

In the current globalized period, different agents organize territories to meet their needs and, in this process, in the search for the formulation of social imaginaries favorable to their interests, these economic agents help the consolidation of true Technospheres and Psychospheres. Among the specialized regions are regions specialized in different sectors of agribusiness, always supported and anchored by a material base (technical) and an immaterial base (of actions), such anchors arise from the work carried out by these agents that condition the territorial ordering of these subspaces, It is a matter of geography to question and investigate the production of such “geographical imaginations”. Taking this as a starting point, the present essay seeks to reflect on how Geographic Education, as a training for citizenship, can serve as a means of clarification and reflection on the constitution of psychospheres around Agribusiness. To carry out this effort, methodologically, the essay is based on bibliographical reviews, obtaining as a result, first the discussion of concepts of Psychosphere and Technosphere, secondly, an analysis of studies already carried out on how the consolidation of agribusiness psychospheres occurs in specialized regions, and finally, carrying out some analyzes and considerations about how geographic education can be a possible path to elucidate such themes.