Between America and Abya Yala – tensions of territorialities

Authors

  • Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v20i0.16231

Keywords:

Abya Yala, America, tensions of territoriality, Américas, tensões entre territorialidades

Abstract

This article intend to configure the tensions of environmental, social and cultural territorialities, that present themselves in the linguistic designations Abya Yala, America, America Criolla, with own significations, and implications of character eminently political. The first one inscribed itself, recently, in the political lexicon of the called originary people that fighting against historical processes of a kind from colonial and neo-colonial, assert their own identity, as political subjects; and the second referring to a Eurocentric designation (America) and the America Criolla, expression with different senses in the Andean, Caribbean and Brazilian countries. So, we try to characterize how the language territorialize itself in a wide field of significations that enclose the environment as a whole in its multiple dimensions.

Author Biography

Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Doutor em Geografia pela UFRJ e Professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia da Universidade Federal Fluminense. É pesquisador do CNPq e Membro do Grupo Hegemonia e Emancipações de Clacso. Ex-Presidente da Associação dos Geógrafos Brasileiros (1998-2000). Membro do Grupo de Assessores do Mestrado em Educação Ambiental da Universidade Autônoma da Cidade do México. Ganhador do Prêmio Chico Mendes em Ciência e Tecnologia em 2004. É autor de diversos artigos e livros publicados em revistas científicas nacionais e internacionais, em que se destacam: - “Geo-grafías: movimientos sociales, nuevas territorialidades y sustentablidad”, ed. Siglo XXI, México, 2001; “Amazônia, Amazônias”, ed. Contexto, São Paulo, 2001; “Geografando – nos varadouros do mundo”, edições Ibama, Brasília, 2004; “O desafio ambiental”, Ed. Record, Rio de Janeiro, 2004; “A globalização da natureza e a natureza da globalização”, Ed. Civilização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 2006; “El desafio ambiental”, Ed. Pnuma, México, 2006.

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Published

2009-12-21

How to Cite

Porto-Gonçalves, C. W. (2009). Between America and Abya Yala – tensions of territorialities. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 20. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v20i0.16231

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Vol. 20 (2009)

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