Name: PAULO CESAR AGUIAR JUNIOR
Publication date: 19/03/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CLAUDIO LUIZ ZANOTELLI | Examinador Interno |
| LARISSA MIÉS BOMBARDI | Examinador Externo |
| LUSINÉRIO PREZOTTI | Examinador Externo |
| PAULO CESAR SCARIM | Presidente |
| RAFAEL DE CASTRO CATAO | Examinador Interno |
Summary: Pesticides are synthesized chemical substances whose objective is to eliminate certain organic
beings that are understood as pests from the human perspective. From the beginning, the desire to
combat certain unwanted beings and achieve high levels of agricultural productivity revealed the
destructive face of this object and its unrestricted capacity for interference across the entire
geographic environment. Along this path, we seek to investigate the issue of pesticides based on the
phenomenal complexity, the relational constitution, the inseparability of events and the dialogical
need between knowledge, towards a “deep geography”. To this end, we evoke geographical
epistemology through some authors such as Humboldt (1874; 2010), Ratzel (2011; 2019; 2020), La
Blache (1911; 1946; 2009; 2010), Sorre (1951; 1967), George (1972; 1973; 1977; 1978), Picheral
(1976, 1982, 1994) and Bombardi (2017; 2021; 2023) in order to mobilize the concept of
environment as an epistemological marker to investigate the omnipresence of pesticides and,
consequently, the ongoing process of spatial pathogenization, taking the state of Espírito Santo as a
reference. In this regard, the aforementioned state highlights the need for concrete and coordinated
actions to face the challenges associated with pesticides and their impacts, as well as the creation of
strategies aimed at reducing poisoning, focusing on vulnerable groups and the specificities of
micro-regions and municipalities. As a way of presenting the results, we organized a “cartographic
essay on pesticides in Espírito Santo”, in order to contribute to the process of qualified information
and organization within the scope of health promotion.
