Introducing Milton Santos: A Voice from the Global South |
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Preface |
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1.1 The World as Fable, as Perversity, and as Possibility |
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1.1.1 The World as They Make Us Believe: Globalization as Fable |
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1.1.2 The World as It Is: Globalization as Perversity |
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1.1.3 The World as It Can Be: An Other Globalization |
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3 | (2) |
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2 The Production of Globalization |
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6 | (1) |
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2.3 The Convergence of Moments |
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7 | (2) |
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9 | (1) |
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2.5 The Knowability of the Planet |
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2.6 A Period That Is a Crisis |
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3 A Perverse Globalization |
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3.2 The Tyranny of Information and Money, and the Present Ideological System |
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3.2.1 The Violence of Information |
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3.2.3 The Violence of Money |
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3.2.4 Fragmented Perceptions and the Single Discourse of the `World' |
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3.3 Competitiveness, Consumption, the Confusion of Spirits, Globalitarianism |
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3.3.1 Competitiveness, the Absence of Compassion |
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3.3.2 Consumption and Its Despotisms |
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3.3.3 Totalitarian Information and the Confusion of Spirits |
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23 | (1) |
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3.3.4 From Imperialism to the World of Today |
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23 | (1) |
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3.3.5 Globalitarianisms and Totalitarianisms |
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24 | (1) |
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3.4 Structural Violence and Systemic Perversity |
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25 | (5) |
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3.4.1 Money in Its Pure State |
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26 | (1) |
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3.4.2 Competitiveness in Its Pure State |
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27 | (1) |
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3.4.3 Power in Its Pure State |
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27 | (1) |
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3.4.4 Systemic Perversity |
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28 | (2) |
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3.5 From the Politics of States to the Politics of Companies |
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3.5.1 Technical Systems, Philosophical Systems |
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30 | (2) |
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3.5.2 Technoscience, Globalization, and Senseless History |
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32 | (1) |
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3.5.3 Global Companies and the Death of Politics |
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33 | (2) |
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3.6 Over 5 Decades, Three Definitions of Poverty |
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35 | (4) |
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35 | (1) |
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3.6.3 Globalized Structural Poverty |
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36 | (2) |
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3.6.4 The Role of Intellectuals |
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38 | (1) |
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3.7 What to Make of Sovereignty |
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39 | (2) |
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4 The Territory of Money and Fragmentation |
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41 | (1) |
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4.2 Geographic Space: Compartmentalization and Fragmentation |
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42 | (4) |
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4.2.1 Compartmentalization: Past and Present |
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43 | (1) |
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4.2.2 Velocity, Fluidity, Fragmentation |
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43 | (2) |
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4.2.3 Competitiveness Versus Solidarity |
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4.3 Globalized Scientific Agriculture and the Alienation of the Territory |
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46 | (3) |
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4.3.1 The External Demand for Rationality |
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47 | (1) |
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4.3.2 The City of the Countryside |
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48 | (1) |
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4.4 Compartmentalization and Fragmentation of Space: The Brazilian Case |
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49 | (2) |
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4.4.1 The Role of Exogenous Logics |
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49 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Endogenous Dialectics |
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50 | (1) |
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4.5 The Territory of Money |
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51 | (6) |
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51 | (1) |
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4.5.2 Money and Territory: Historical Situations |
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52 | (1) |
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4.5.3 Metamorphoses of the Two Categories Throughout Time |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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4.5.5 Regional Situations |
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54 | (2) |
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4.5.6 The Effects of Global Money |
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56 | (1) |
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4.6 Verticalities and Horizontalities |
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57 | (4) |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (1) |
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4.6.3 The Search for Meaning |
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60 | (1) |
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4.7 The Schizophrenia of the Space |
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61 | (4) |
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4.7.1 Being a Citizen in the Place |
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61 | (1) |
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4.7.2 The Everyday Life and the Territory |
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62 | (1) |
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4.7.3 A Pedagogy of Existence |
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63 | (2) |
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5 Limits to Perverse Globalization |
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65 | (1) |
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5.2 The Ascendant Variable |
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66 | (1) |
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5.3 The Limits of the Dominant Rationality |
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66 | (1) |
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5.4 The Imaginary of Velocity |
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67 | (3) |
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5.4.1 Velocity, Technique, and Power |
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68 | (1) |
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5.4.2 From the Despotic Clock to Divergent Temporalities |
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69 | (1) |
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5.5 Just-in-Time Versus Everyday Life |
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70 | (1) |
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5.6 An Entanglement of Techniques: The Realm of Artifice and Scarcity |
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71 | (2) |
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5.6.1 From Artifice to Scarcity |
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71 | (1) |
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5.6.2 From Scarcity to Understanding |
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72 | (1) |
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5.7 The Role of the Poor in the Production of the Present and the Future |
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73 | (2) |
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5.8 The Metamorphosis of the Middle Classes |
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75 | (4) |
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75 | (1) |
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5.8.2 Scarcity Reaches the Middle Classes |
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76 | (1) |
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5.8.3 A New Given in Politics |
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77 | (2) |
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6 Transition on the March |
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79 | (1) |
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6.2 Popular Culture, Popular Period |
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80 | (4) |
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6.2.1 Mass Culture, Popular Culture |
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80 | (1) |
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6.2.2 The Empirical Conditions of Transformation |
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81 | (1) |
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6.2.3 The Precedence of Humanity and the Popular Period |
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82 | (2) |
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6.3 The Centrality of the Periphery |
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84 | (3) |
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6.3.1 Limits to Cooperation |
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84 | (1) |
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6.3.2 The Challenge to the South |
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85 | (2) |
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6.4 The Active Nation, the Passive Nation |
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87 | (3) |
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6.4.1 The End of the National Project? |
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87 | (1) |
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6.4.2 Alienation of the Active Nation |
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88 | (1) |
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6.4.3 Coming into Consciousness and Richness of the Passive Nation |
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88 | (2) |
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6.5 The Present Globalization Is Not Irreversible |
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90 | (6) |
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6.5.1 The Dissolution of Ideologies |
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90 | (1) |
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6.5.2 The Pertinence of Utopia |
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91 | (1) |
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6.5.3 Other Possible Uses for the Current Techniques |
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92 | (1) |
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6.5.4 Geography and the Acceleration of History |
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93 | (2) |
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6.5.5 A Possible New World |
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95 | (1) |
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6.6 The Story Is Just Beginning |
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96 | (5) |
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6.6.1 Humanity as a Revolutionary Bloc |
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96 | (1) |
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6.6.2 The New Consciousness of Being Worldly |
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97 | (1) |
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6.6.3 The Great Contemporary Transformation |
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98 | (3) |
Milton Santos's Selected Bibliography |
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About Milton Santos |
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109 | (2) |
About the Editors and Translators |
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