As contribuições de Davidovich e Bahiana ao debate das escalas geográficas no Brasil

Abstract

The theoretical debate about the geographical scales had increased during the last two decades, especially in the Anglophone context but without great interest of the Brazilian geography. This article seeks to reread two Brazilian publications of the 70’s and 80’s that develops some points about this subject, although they are frequently forgotten by the national literature. Some recent reflections made in the Anglo-Saxon context will be used as a contrast. The scalar perspective over the history of geographical thought, the emphasis in the coexistence of different scales in each parcel of the reality, and the perspective of the geographical scales as outcomes of spatial processes are some of the original contributions of these two. Finally, I want to reinforce the importance of a renew and an update of the discussion concerning the geographical scales in Brazil, once that this scales are constitutive elements of the thoughts and of the actions, making them important and efficient instruments of power.