Politics spaces. Cartographies, geocultures and American geopolitics
Abstract
Oscar Madoery is a political scientist and doctor of science social, with a rich experience in territorial development; directs the doctorate in Political Science of the National University of Rosario, Director of the School of Political Science and is a professor and tenured researcher at that university. His multiple works they combine a solid theoretical background with a broad Latin American perspective; your thinking and their practice is deeply rooted in the socio-historical, political and cultural realities of our societies, in critical and incisive dialogue with other theoretical frameworks and other processes. Spaces of memory presents the relationship between space, politics and culture in an exercise of thought situated as a critique of the "homogeneous global" as an epistemological position. The universal, Madoery argues throughout work, is the European universal, product of the colonial-imperialist expansion of European capitalism from the 16th century. The book that can be read as a continuation of his earlier Latin American Developments and Controversies (published in 2016 by the National University of Earth of fire); continuity recognized by the author himself. It is, however, a continuity at a different conceptual and argumentative level. The territory now appears not only as a political product of the delimitation of a geographic-economic space, or the matter on which power relations they operate and which they appropriate; is above all an area of cultural generation where a The population group defines its identity, develops its daily existence and relates to other populations, spaces and cultures. The author develops his argument in three chapters (Cartographies, Geocultures, Geopolitics) preceded by two prologues (Vilas and Madoery), an introduction and a "Closing message: The political from the ground."
