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oai:doaj.org/article:5eae0e6762d148fd9ff39f73f28d42fb

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10.22409/GEOgraphia2020.v22i48.a43101

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THEY THINK GEOGRAPHICALLY: GLOBALISING CAPITALISM AND BEYOND

Abstract

Summary: In the spirit of strengthening their intellectual foundations and clarifying their contributions to make sense to the world, we must resist any inclination to treat geography as a club – a discipline with borders to be policed and defended. I advocate for the forces to think geographically, a way of being in the world open to all. This means dealing with the geography of knowledge production; with such time spacing and timing are shaped by soctionary processes; with the emerging human-scale world; the variety of ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies on which knowledge claims are based; and with the world not only as it is, but also how it can be. To think geographically about globalising capitalism makes it possible to address the particular socio-spatial positions from which there has been a metaphase of common sense understandings on capitalism. Europe has not invented capitalist practices, but has become the centre of calculation of globalising capitalism, catalysed by the spatial dynamics of colonialism that have pushed it up in relation to its predecessors. Thinking geographically militates against conventional considerations about globalising capitalism emanating from Europe, which refer to a growing tide capable of lifting all boats and bringing prosperity to all responsible individuals, who work hard and all well-governed territories. Indeed, those considerations based on the body and place obscure the way in which asymmetric connections between places and interrescalary dynamics, which co-evolve with unequal geographical development, co-produce socio-spatial positionality and unequal conditions of opportunity for those who spread or face globalising capitalism. Nor can capitalism be understood, or practised, simply as an economic process; its economic aspects are co-involved with political, cultural (gênero, racial, etc.), social and biophysical processes, in ways that repeatedly overcome and weaken any “laws of the economy”. Thinking geographically makes it necessary to provide space for alternative trajectories and experiences and capitalists, enriched by peripheral experiences of globalising capitalism and meetings with it on the periphery.

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