Interview with professor Maria Adélia Aparecida de Souza, phd - part I

Abstract

From June 10th to 12th, 2019, the Geography course of the Federal University of Alfenas - UNIFAL / MG received the V GEOSIMPÓSIO and III GEOTRANS to discuss conflicts and territorial inequalities in contemporary society. There were three days of robust debates, focused on the political dimension of the geographical space and the participation of important intellectuals from Brazilian Geography, such as teacher Maria Adélia de Souza, who presented the closing conference with the necessary discussion on “Socio-spatial inequalities and the constitution of places in cities”. On the morning of the last day of the event, Maria Adélia gave the following interview, in which she portrays her trajectory in Brazilian Geography, discusses the crisis that this area of knowledge faces and reinforces the importance of the New Geography built by Professor Milton Santos as possibility of overcoming it.