The geography of the area of poverty

Abstract

In the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, before the urban metropolises, geography assumed the speech of complaint.  The geographical reading indicated unequal spaces likely to be corrected before the reorganization of space, through public policy.   The geographical speech followed the dictates of the ECLAC reading of the dual economy, submitting the category of geographical space to a strait jacket, identified as an area, condition of the border location of the administrative unit.  There was no concern about the contradictions, only the record of the signs. By conceiving the space from the critical understanding of the concept - space produced in the process of determining the historical relationship between capital and labor, aims to analyze the broader relations.  In this sense, the dimension of space pervades the experienced in its historical determination, the conceived and perceived reality.  It is the responsibility of the geographer to see the spatial distribution of poverty, not as a simple record of landscape, but as a subject responsible for change in their struggle to end capital.  Thus, a revolutionary of present time, of a historical time.