A GRANDE ESPACIALIZAÇÃO: YVES LACOSTE E O PRÓLOGO DE UMA GEOGRAFIA DO DESENVOLVIMENTO

Abstract

It investigates the historical path that led the Moroccan geographer Yves Lacoste to address issues related to economic development during the fall and rise of systemic cycles of British and American accumulation (ARRIGHI, 2016 [1994]). As for the methodological perspective, we have chosen Vincent Berdoulay's contextual approach (2017 [1981; 1995]). The contextual approach allowed to capture (1) the context of emergence and formation of Lacoste's geographical practice; and enabled (2) to highlight intellectuals and institutions with which Yves Lacoste contracted academic and political relations: the circle of affinities (BERDOULAY, 2017 [1981; 1995]). Among the authors who studied Yves Lacoste's intellectual trajectory, can be highlighted Claude Bataillon (2006) and Elisa Favaro Verdi (2017). Bataillon highlights the geography of the Third World; Verdi highlights Lacoste's dialectical analysis of underdevelopment; Therefore, it is denoted, in the wake of Bataillon, and Verdi, that the post-World War II world is the historical landmark that leads Lacoste to reflect on underdeveloped countries, in particular, and the geography of underdevelopment in general – paving the way, therefore, for the author to discuss a posteriori Third World, Geography and Geopolitics.