Michel Rochefort e o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística na década de 1960

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Artigo recebido em 12/01/2015 e aceito para publicação em 16/11/2015 RESUMO:O geógrafo francês Michel Rochefort (1927Rochefort ( -2015 ABSTRACT: French geographer, Michael Rochefort (1927-2015, built his career as an important name in the planning of his country. Part of this was because of his lengthy participation in the Comissariat General du Plan, a governmental agency in France, whose objectives are quite similar to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), an institution which would be one of the nodal points in Rochefort's relationship with Brazil for over five decades. This article analyses this relationship in the 1960s, when IBGE, together with the methodologies proposed by Rochefort and François Perroux, developed important subsidy policies for planning. Despite the theoretical limitations in IBGE's work in the 1960s, the institute's work turned out to be of great importance for the political territories in at least the two decades following. Michael Rochefort exemplifies, through his work, the undeniable contribution of French geography to Brazilian geography during the years marked by the period of planning and national developmentalism in Brazil.

Inventing critical development: A Brazilian geographer and his Northern networks

“…In 1967–1968, Santos lectured at the University of Bordeaux, where an international conference on “Space regionalization in Brazil” was organised by the CNRS Centre for Studies on Tropical Geography (directed by Santos’ friend Guy Lasserre). It was attended by many French geographers who had worked in Brazil, such as Monbeig, George, Rochefort, Bernard Kayser and Pierre Deffontaines (Bomfim, ; Ferretti, ). It is worth noting that, despite the importance of tropicalism and imperial legacies in French geography (Bowd & Clayton, ), an academic tropical geography was fully established in France only in the 1950s.…”