Descrição
Speculations on the concept of the term “region” as a geographic category of analysis are abundant and diversified in the specialized literature, which demonstrates its importance and actuality. Nevertheless, the use of the term recurrently presents epistemological challenges when faced with contemporary themes, such as the possibilities of cultural regionalizations. This article aims to discuss the validity of those regionalizations considering the paradigms of postcolonialism – which bases its analysis of culture from a modern anthropological bias –, and, at the same time, to present its cartographic alternatives and challenges.||As reflexões sobre a categoria de análise geográfica região são abundantes e diversificadas, o que encontra explicação no enquadramento do conceito como uma importante ferramenta do fazer geográfico. Ainda assim, temas da contemporaneidade lançam desafios de natureza epistemológica sobre o uso do termo, como aquele que propomos neste artigo, que versa sobre as possibilidades de regionalizações realizadas a partir de temáticas culturais. Para tanto, o trabalho em voga leva em conta os pressupostos do pós colonialismo, que analisam a cultura a partir de um viés antropológico moderno, estabelecendo nela predicados que remetem ao comportamento espacial e lançam, ao mesmo tempo, desafios para a representação cartográfica.
Abstract
THE INADEQUACY OF CULTURAL REGIONALIZATIONS THROUGH THE ASSUMPTIONS OF POSTCOLONIALIST THEORIES
Speculations on the concept of the term “region” as a geographic category of analysis are abundant and diversified in the specialized literature, which demonstrates its importance and actuality. Nevertheless, the use of the term recurrently presents epistemological challenges when faced with contemporary themes, such as the possibilities of cultural regionalizations. This article aims to discuss the validity of those regionalizations considering the paradigms of postcolonialism – which bases its analysis of culture from a modern anthropological bias –, and, at the same time, to present its cartographic alternatives and challenges.
