Repensando o território nas relações internacionais a partir da obra de Milton Santos

Abstract

The territory appears in International Relations theories, predominantly, as a natural element, source and instrument of power, reinforcing the conceptions inherited from Modernity. Even critical theories, impacted by the transformations provoked by the phenomenon of globalization, insist on not treating territory with centrality and in its complex geographical dimension. In contrast, this monograph proposes an epistemological re-reading based on the work of geographer Milton Santos, in order to analyze how his conception of territory, as an analytical category grounded in use and in the contradictions of the capitalist system, contributes to a critical approach in the field of International Relations. With the intention of breaking with traditional conceptions and exposing the limits of so-called critical theories with an interdisciplinary proposal of analysis, the work will raise questions such as the dialectic of the totalizing movement, the socio-spatial instance attributed to territory, the production of cuts in the transnationalization of territory and its direct relationship with the phenomenon of globalization.