Abstract
The human sciences are important for the understanding of society, but science geography has been one of the main bridges for studies on the relations of man and nature, incorporated in the face of the categories, space, place, territory, landscape and region. In this theoretical essay, we sought to understand the conceptual evolution of the theme and understand how the category of space builds identity. The general objective was thought; reflect on space as a category of the geographic epistemological basis for the construction of identity. In addition, some of the main classical theoretical contributions (Eric Dardel, Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida, Ana fani Alessandri Carlos, Stuart Hall, Henry Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Milton Santos) were used in order to understand evolution of the concepts of space for the construction of identity.
Keywords:
Space category; Identity construction; Theoretical bases