REFLECTIONS OF THE POPULATION ON THE LIGHT OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT

Abstract

This article aims to discuss how the issue of population was being addressed by geographic science. In this sense, our intention to contribute to the analysis and reflection on the study of the geography and population, while the dialogue with the different ways to understand the geography as a subject population was approached, and still flag as the debate on the subject is features, and is held or not, when considering the population in the light of Geography in the news. To build this article we turn to some classical theorists of Geography, because we recognize the importance of situating, even briefly, the important contribution they left. Likewise, we sought to build a movement history of geographical thought, taking into account the connection with the issue of population. Having seen the breadth of the subject, we tried to prioritize qualitative aspects; it employed the method of critical historical research, and thus regain some of the history of geography, through a dialectical reading of geographical science. To this end, we are faced with the challenge of studying the possibilities and limitations of the population as a mediator in the process of understanding the past, present and future of humanity in a context in which man is confronted with a space that most of the time, nor helped create. Geography is directly related to changes in the world, that a review now with new nuances, faced with the task of understanding the geographical area in a very complex context in which the population is included.