Considerações teóricas sobre a relação entre paisagem e desigualdades socioespaciais

Abstract

In this paper we set out to reflect about the concept of landscape and its relation with the social inequalities manifested in the geographical space, trying to answer if the landscape can be a category of analysis which allows a better understanding of the geography of socioeconomic inequality and possible solutions to this problem. Thus, the general objective is to value the landscape as a category of geographic analysis for the debate about the consequences of a harsh reality in Brazil (income concentration). Seeking to build this scenario on the political burden of the landscape and specifics of the debate on social exclusion, their scales of manifestations and representations and the social issue potentiated by environmental problems, so we take as specific objectives this research: discuss the different landscape perspectives in geography; understand the socioeconomic inequality as a complex process related to the debate about the actions of the public power in its different scales; relate socioeconomic inequalities with the issue of the presence of nature in cities and its consequences o for the economically excluded people. The bibliographic search, aimed to reflect on the concepts of landscape and social exclusion to ground landscape as a political category in geography based on the following authors: Bertrand (2009), Besse (2014), Verdum (2012), Vitte (2007), Lindo (2011), Maricato (1995), Souza (2012) e and Swyngedouw (2009). The results point to the importance of think about the landscape category in geography beyond its appearance, that is, to think the landscape also from the political point of view, problematizing the poverty indicators of urban citizens, especially people located in the urban periphery, degraded areas (unfit for human occupation), as well as in many cases the total absence of landscape is perceived.