Spatialization and subjectivation

the division of space under reflection

Abstract

This work consists in a study of the social processes that produce, inseparably, spatializations and subjectivities. The objective of this article is to reflect, from discourses and practices articulated around the idea of region, the subjectivation as constituted and constituent of space division processes. Starting from a dialogue with the bourdieuan principles of vision and division, we analyzed spatial delineations, at multiple scales, that border and classify subjects, generally based on a taxonomic and stigmatizing rationality. The formation and development of the modern nation-state is analyzed in the work through two central contradictions: the production of identity unity in contrast to continuous spatial and social division and the definition of the subject as protagonist of national identity and its denial through a process of subalternized subjection-objectification. The recognition of the subject as a fundamental movement for contemporary science, including Geography, is debated from the understanding of the indispensable inclusion of subjectivation in analyses of spatializations, as well as from the elaboration of geographical reflections that are crossed by the (re)elaborations produced by subjectivized groups through the discursive and practical dispute of the meanings present in the then naturalized spatial divisions.