Abstract

DOMINGUES, Álvaro. Transgenic landscapes. Finisterra [online]. 2021, n.118, pp.9-24.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 0430-5027.  https://doi.org/10.18055/finis25456.

In the classical tradition of Geography, Landscape is a concept and a central issue in the definition of the object of study of Geography. The landscape contains fundamental records to understand the relationship between “man” and “environment”, allowing rigorous readings of the mutual influence between biophysical systems and the transformations derived from human occupation and its evolution. Developed mainly between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the Geography of Landscapes favoured pre-modern rural environments with obvious advantages: the forms of organization of agricultural production were at that time very dependent on biophysical contexts; agriculture built landscape through the way it transformed the territory and organized society, the settlement, the relationship with places; technological constraints and a greater slowness in its evolution (compared to today’s situation) did not allow for major disruptions and favoured stability and clarity of reading. Meanwhile, urbanization, the rapid evolution of the economic base to industrial and service activities, the disappearance of pre-modern agriculture and its corresponding society plunged the landscape into drift and confusion, with loss of pure lineages/typologies. As with transgenic organisms, crossings, new combinations, forms of analysis and validation, ethical and aesthetic controversies, the landscape also fell into disquiet

Keywords : Geography; lanscape; epistemology; transgenic landscape..

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