Resumo -Embora ainda não se disponha, em língua portuguesa, de obras volumosas que tratem da história da Geografia pelo viés panorâmico-descritivo, da literatura corrente (estrangeira, sobretudo) deduz-se, com relativo consenso, certa trajetória evolutiva: do empirismo oitocentista ao abstracionismo contemporâneo. Desta mesma trajetória, é possível deduzir também, para a microescala dos estudos de caso nacionais, determinadas inflexões e mudanças de paradigma. Este texto divulga, junto à comunidade lusófona de geocientistas, um pouco da evolução do pensamento geográfico -e explorando, particularmente, ao final, o caso contemporâneo brasileiro: uma transformação havida na importância das pesquisas geográficas no país. Os autores sustentam que se teria perdido o status pragmático-científico da disciplina, em prol de uma militância político-ideológica. Noutras palavras, no Brasil, a Geografia teria se transformado de geociência em geodiscurso.Palavras-chave -História da geografia; Tradição clássica; Revolução teorética; Discurso radical; Caso brasileiro Abstract -Although there are no voluminous books in Portuguese language concerning the history of Geography from the panoramic and descriptive bias, from the current literature (especially foreign) it can be drawn, with relative consensus, a certain evolutionary trajectory: from the nineteenth century empiricism to the contemporary abstractionism. And from 42 4 0 4 this same trajectory it can be deduced, to the micro-scale of the national case studies, certain inflections and paradigm shifts. This paper divulges to the Lusophone community of geoscientists some of the evolution of geographical thought -and particularly exploring, at the end, the contemporary Brazilian case: a shift occurred in the importance of geographical research in that country. The authors argue that the pragmatic-scientific status of the discipline would have been lost in favor of a political-ideological militancy. In other words, in Brazil, Geography would have turned from geoscience to geodiscourse.
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