El lugar de la alimentación en el pensamiento geográfico: un análisis desde Max Sorre y Josué de Castro
This article explores how food has been studied within the field of geography, focusing on two authors who have dedicated themselves to this topic: Josué de Castro and Max Sorre. It is based on the dissertation “O lugar do alimentos no pensamento geográfico: uma análise a partir de Max Sorre e de Jo...
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2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/15200 |
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| Sumario: | This article explores how food has been studied within the field of geography, focusing on two authors who have dedicated themselves to this topic: Josué de Castro and Max Sorre. It is based on the dissertation “O lugar do alimentos no pensamento geográfico: uma análise a partir de Max Sorre e de Josué de Castro,” defended in September 2021 at UFES (Federal University of Espírito Santo). Josué de Castro is a Brazilian physician and geographer who, since the 1940s, has studied hunger through his research on food. Max Sorre is a classical French geographer, heir to the ideas of Paul Vidal de la Blache, author of, among other works, “Les Fondements de la géographie humaine.” Sorre concluded his geographical studies with “L’Homme sur la Terre: traité de géographie humaine” (Man on Earth: A Treatise on Human Geography), incorporating food and the geography of food into several of his studies, as well as the topic of hunger, which had been introduced to the scientific world by Josué de Castro.
Based on documentary research, bibliographic readings, and interviews, the importance of the topic of food is demonstrated, especially in an era prior to the revolution in information and communication technologies, the Green Revolution, and the post-Cold War period, marked by a significant increase in food production and global paradigm shifts. The text argues for the need for true interdisciplinarity and the humanization of the humanities, as exemplified by these two humanist geographers.
Its main objective is to share the contributions of Josué de Castro and Max Sorre in French, to better understand the problems they observed and analyzed, as well as the continuity of their ideas after their deaths. He concludes that the issue remains relevant and requires ongoing efforts to eliminate the scourge already denounced by Castro in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, which continues to devastate, both directly and covertly, a large part of humanity.
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