José William Vesentini
José William Vesentini | |
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| Born | Missing required parameter 1=month! , 1950 |
| Alma mater | Universidade de São Paulo |
| Occupations | Geographer and professor |
José William Vesentini (born in 1950 in Presidente Bernardes) is a Brazilian human geographer. He teaches geography and areas of political geography and geopolitics, and is regarded as a pioneer of critical geography.
Life
Vesentini's grandparents were Italian anarchists who came to Brazil to escape fascism.[1] He taught in the first and second grades for over ten years during the 1970s and participated in special educational programs such as a supplementary course in the Metalworkers Union of São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema (1974-1976), and the Centre for Educational Guidance (COE) (1973-1977), a private high school transformed into a cooperative run by teachers.
In 1984 he became a professor and researcher in the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences at University of São Paulo (FFLCH). His work Brazil: Society and Space, published in 1984, was the first textbook to adopt the approach of critical geography.
Within academia, Vesentini is better known as William Vesentini; he has been livre-docente at the department since 2003. He has written over 30 books on geography and geopolitics.
References
- ↑ Interview with professor José William Vesentini Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine by the Grupo de Pesquisas Integradas em Desenvolvimento Socioterritorial (GIDs) da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.