Name: ANA LETÍCIA ESPOLADOR LEITÃO
Type: PhD thesis
Publication date: 03/09/2021
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CARLO EUGENIO NOGUEIRA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CARLO EUGENIO NOGUEIRA | Advisor * |
| CÁSSIO ARRUDA BOECHAT | Internal Examiner * |
| RAFAEL DE CASTRO CATÃO | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: The thesis presents how food has been studied in Geography, by the two authors who have
devoted themselves intensively to this theme: Josué de Castro and Max. Sorre. The first is the
Brazilian, who from the 1940s will actually study hunger, after studying food. The second, is
the classical geographer, of French nationality, and heir to the ideas of Paul Vidal de la Blache,
wrote the foundations of human geography, among other works, ending his geographical
studies with treatises on human geography, including food, geography of food in many of his
studies, and hunger presented to the scientific world by Josué de Castro. From documentary
research, bibliographic readings and interviews, we show the importance of the topic of food,
in particular at a time which preceded the revolution of information and communication
technologies, after the cold war and the green revolution, WHERE we had a significant increase
in food production and global change, with paradigm breaks. We defend more than ever the
need for a true interdisciplinarity and a humanization of the human sciences, also defended by
the two geographers, humanists. Our main objective of the thesis is to share the contributions
of Josué de Castro and Max. Sorre. There is a need to better understand the problems that
Castro observed and analyzed and what happened after his death. We conclude that the theme
remains relevant and requires efforts to eliminate the scourge already denounced by Castro
during the first three quartiles of the twentieth century, and that they continue to strike in an
absolute and hidden way a large part of humanity.
Keywords: Josué de Castro; Max. Sorre, Food; Hunger; History of Geographic Thought.
