Construction of geographical space: Transition economy – From agriculture to (pre)industrialization

Abstract

The dialogues to rescue the geo-history of the human transition on Earth are salutary in the contemporary world, both so that the process of construction of geographical space is not lost in fragments, and for the understanding of the transition and economic relationship of people with nature. Thus, it is legitimate to highlight the objective of this study is to discuss the process of successive construction of geographic space. The methodology used was the bibliographic study, with a qualitative focus and descriptive scope. Among the main results is that the process of human expansion on Earth occurred because of the need for survival. It was no longer possible to find food in abundance and people began to have unmet primary needs. People had no way to remain nomadic, because the scarcity of food led them to stay in the same place for longer, thus creating bonds with the place. Climate change and the rise of human society were some of the reasons for finding shelter and food. Humans eventually discovered that they could produce the food they needed by growing plants and domesticating animals, this was the first major transformation. With this, space becomes territory, as spatial relations begin. The second transition was the fosses and the third the (pre)industrialization, and the latter continues to need the agricultural economy. With the emergence of industries, the society that was ruralist began to look for cities in search of better living conditions, which began with clusters of people in small spaces, in a new territorial ordering.