Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: EZEQUIEL FRAGA FELIX BEZERRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : EZEQUIEL FRAGA FELIX BEZERRA
DATE: 30/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório de Geografia - CCHLA
TITLE:

ESSAYS ON THE CITY OF NATAL-RN: KALEIDOSCOPES OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE, AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES

KEY WORDS:

NATAL; GEOGRAPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE; SCIENCE IN ACTION; URBAN DYNAMICS; RECONNECTION OF KNOWLEDGE.

PAGES: 83
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

Taking the city of Natal-RN as a body of multiple entries in constant metamorphosis, this qualification text investigates 'science in action' produced within the Graduate Program in Geography (PPGe/UFRN), specifically in the Urban and Regional Dynamics research line, covering the period from 2015 to 2025. The central question is to demonstrate through research: to what extent does this city move daily within this systematic city? To this end, it intends to describe the city of Natal in the movement where systematic and everyday geography meet, creating an essayistic narrative. Opposing the disjunctive Cartesian paradigm, which isolates the researcher from their object, this work starts from the premise that urban reality is inherently complex, requiring a continuous self-examination from geographical science. To achieve this, the research mobilizes the figure of the kaleidoscope as an ontological and epistemological device, in which theses and dissertations function as 'multicolored glass' that filter, refract, and multiply the city's regimes of visibility. Grounded in Edgar Morin’s complexity theory, the study adopts the essay as a methodological strategy to promote the 'relinking' of knowledge. Considering the current stage of qualification, the scope of the text focuses on the first stage of research (Part I), consisting of essays that perform the analytical decoding of scientific production networks. This phase highlights the broad theoretical spectrums that color the space of Natal, notably Lefebvre’s dialectical matrices of the production of space and the rhizomatic conceptions of Deleuze and Guattari. The outline of subsequent stages (Parts II and III) anticipates tensioning this framework through geo-artistic cartographies of everyday life and the fabulation of 'other Natals.' The partial results achieved in this qualification indicate that the capital of Rio Grande do Norte reveals itself as a palimpsest of multiple skins and narratives, demanding a spatial intelligence supported by a self-reflexive Geography that reintegrates science, philosophy, and art in the reading of space.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 6350736 - EUGENIA MARIA DANTAS
Interno - 1777712 - ALESSANDRO DOZENA
Externo ao Programa - 1501788 - ALEXSANDRO GALENO ARAUJO DANTAS - UFRN