Debates About the Historical Geography and Geo-History: Elements for a Space-Time Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss the theoretical and conceptual debate about
geographies of the past, that is, the different geographical approaches to territorial formations, landscapes and the temporal mediations that contributed to the production of spaces of the past and present. This study is the result of theoretical reflections developed in the first chapter of the dissertation The Historical Geography of Iguatu-CE: An Analysis of Cotton Cropping from 1920 to 1980, which presented the historical production of space in Iguatu, identifying the subjects and mediation processes involved in the area studied. Historical analysis, use of oral sources, analysis of documents, photographs and speeches and observation of old forms were crucial instruments for understanding the spatial construction of the theoretical and heuristic framework used to reconstruct and investigate geographical space in its historicity.