O LUGAR DO ALIMENTO NO PENSAMENTO GEOGRÁFICO: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DE MAX. SORRE E DE JOSUÉ DE CASTRO

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Leitão, Ana Leticia Espolador
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Doutorado em Geografia; Centro de Ciências Humanas e Naturais; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Josué de Castro; Max. Sorre; alimento; fome; história do pensamento geográfico; subject.br-rjbn; Geografia
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/15903

The thesis presents how food has been studied in geography based on two authors who intensively dedicated themselves to this theme: Josué de Castro and Max Sorre. Josué de Castro is a Brazilian doctor and geographer who from the 1940s onwards has effectively studied hunger based on his research on food. Max Sorre is a classical geographer of French nationality and heir of the ideas of Paul Vidal de la Blache, who wrote “The Fundamentals of Human Geography” among other works. Sorre ended his geographical studies with “Man on Earth: treatise on human geography”, inserting food and food geography in several of his studies, as well as hunger in continuation of Josué de Castro. Based on documentary research, bibliographical reading and interviews, we show the importance of the theme of food, especially in a time that precedes the revolution of information and communication technologies, the Green Revolution and the post-Cold War era marked by a significant increase in food production and global paradigm shifts. We defend the need for proper interdisciplinarity, and the humanization of the human sciences defended by these two humanist geographers. Our main objective is to share the contributions of Josué de Castro and Max Sorre in order to better understand the issues they observed and analyzed as well as their influence after their death. We conclude that the theme of food and hunger remains prominent and requires efforts to eliminate the scourge already denounced by Castro in the first three quarters of the 20th century and that continues to devastate, in an absolute and hidden way, a large part of humanity.