Descrição
This article aims to demonstrate the connections between regional and academic centralities. The investigations were focused on the changes in Brazilian national territory, contemplating its movements of configuration and reconfiguration. In the article was analyzed the period between 1870 to 1970, because it is known that it held major changes in Brazilian social life and in there definition of its spatial and regional situations. This historical review intents to demonstrate that the academic centrality of Geography in Brazil followed the shift of the political and economic centralities, which moved from the Northeast region to the Southeast region, especially to the state of São Paulo. The article also seeks to bring into light part of the history of Geography that was developed in Bahia and its contributions to the progress of Geography in Brazil considering that it is largely unknown to most of Brazilian geographers.||O presente artigo visa demonstrar as relações entre centralidades regionais e centralidades acadêmicas, tomando como eixo o próprio movimento de configuração e reconfiguração do território nacional. O artigo toma como recorte temporal o período que se estende de 1870 a 1970, período de grandes mudanças na vida social do país e de redefinição das situações espaciais/regionalizações, para demonstrar que a centralidade acadêmica da Geografia no Brasil acompanhou no referido período o movimento de mudança regional da centralidade político-econômica no país, deslocando-se do estado da Bahia para a região sudeste, notadamente o estado de São Paulo. O artigo busca também trazer a público um pouco da história da Geografia desenvolvida na Bahia e suas contribuições à Geografia no Brasil, ainda bastante desconhecida da comunidade de geógrafos brasileiros.
Abstract
REGIONAL CENTRALITIES, ACADEMIC CENTRALITIES: TERRITORIAL RECONFIGURATIONS IN BRAZIL AND THEIR INFLUENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHY IN BAHIA (1870-1970)
This article aims to demonstrate the connections between regional and academic centralities. The investigations were focused on the changes in Brazilian national territory, contemplating its movements of configuration and reconfiguration. In the article was analyzed the period between 1870 to 1970, because it is known that it held major changes in Brazilian social life and in there definition of its spatial and regional situations. This historical review intents to demonstrate that the academic centrality of Geography in Brazil followed the shift of the political and economic centralities, which moved from the Northeast region to the Southeast region, especially to the state of São Paulo. The article also seeks to bring into light part of the history of Geography that was developed in Bahia and its contributions to the progress of Geography in Brazil considering that it is largely unknown to most of Brazilian geographers.
