Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SULIMAN SADY DE SOUZA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SULIMAN SADY DE SOUZA
DATE: 19/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/bvp-ibgp-xsh
TITLE:

THE PRODUCTION OF OFFICIAL BRAZILIAN DATA AND INFORMATION BY IBGE: A REVEALING PRACTICE OF GEOGRAPHIC SPACE IN ADVERSITY OF A PSYCHOSPHERE AND A TECHNOSPHERE OF THE 21ST CENTURY

KEY WORDS:

IBGE; used territory; technique; information; rational space.

PAGES: 128
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Econômica
SUMMARY:

The geographical space assumes the role of a "social instance" and can only be fully
deciphered if observed as a whole; otherwise, it moves away from the task of being the object
of geography. Among the constitutive elements of the geographical space are institutions.
Nothing escapes the space, not even the subject that gives it meaning, i.e., humans. While
firms have the function of providing space with goods, services, and ideas, institutions play
the role of materializing, organizing, and even legitimizing it. The abstract notion related to
geographical space becomes more understandable if we treat it as a content made up of fixed,
immovable objects, and flows, mobile objects, in which a framework of life occurs, being
such a hybrid framework simultaneously endowed with materiality and social life; this is the
historicized geographical space, here turned by Milton Santos and Maria Laura Silveira into a
synonym for used territory. In the geographical space of our time, which also unfolds as
rational space, the technique is contained, which currently imposes man's subjection to
machines or things, and information, a constitutive element of the
technical-scientific-informational environment, as well as the technique. This new
environment coincides with the period that bears its name, being forged from a technosphere
and a psychosphere specific to our generation. Considering the nature of the activities carried
out by IBGE, namely, the production of data and information related to Brazilian territory, the
high social and strategic value of this institution in today's context for reading the used
territory becomes transparent. In the past, at the time of its foundation, IBGE symbolized a
conflict between spontaneity and rationality; the perspective of a unitary State and a federalist
State; an opposition between the centralization and decentralization of political power; the 

opposition of central power in relation to local power; the antagonism that separates
authoritarianism from democracy; and, if we allow ourselves to look at it from an even more
macro aspect, we will see the contrast between the State and the market. The presence of
IBGE has amalgamated in Brazilian reality over its more than eight decades of existence, and
with a vocation to go beyond the limits of its facilities, the organization has always been
attentive to society's demands and its own needs. Currently, IBGE has concentrated on
multiple tasks, and a fact rarely associated with it is that its actions favor democratic exercise.
The country's project gestated in the Federal Constitution of 1988 is only realized with the
data that IBGE provides to society on a daily basis. The Federal Pact in force in the Magna
Carta deals, among many issues, with the allocation of public funds by the so-called
federation entities. One of these sources of resources is the FPE, while a second source
corresponds to the FPM. Both are determined by the population figures periodically recorded
by the Institute. It is then up to the organization to provide society and the federative entities
with reliable data that refer to the country's reality so that the balance of this agreed-upon
pact can be maintained intact. The idea of territory is intrinsic to the daily activities carried
out by IBGE, hence there is no dissociation between statistics and geography in the Brazilian
agency. Therefore, the absence of a geographical department within the National Institute of
Statistics, in Spain, for example, prompts us to establish a comparison between this European
agency and IBGE, given that geography is an essential ingredient for the latter. An
accumulation of difficulties faced by IBGE directly affects its technical and financial
autonomy, a necessary condition for the free exercise of its functions. On a broader level, if 

the national body responsible for producing data and information that reflect Brazil as it
really is does not enjoy full powers and conditions to fulfill its duties, we believe that soon
we will be facing a compromise of national sovereignty. Based on the presented panorama,
this research aims to analyze the production of official data and information from Brazil by
IBGE as a revealing practice of the geographical space in an adverse context of a
psychosphere and a technosphere of the 21st century. To enable it, we used theoretical and
methodological procedural means such as bibliographic surveys at different stages of this
investigation, documentary research, and conducting interviews, especially in the
comparative stage between IBGE and INE.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2346233 - FRANCISCO FRANSUALDO DE AZEVEDO
Externo ao Programa - 3263586 - FRANCISCO JABLINSKI CASTELHANO - UFRNExterno à Instituição - TADEU PEREIRA ALENCAR ARRAIS - UFG