José William Vesentini

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José William Vesentini (born 1950 in Presidente Bernardes , Brazil) is a Brazilian geographer .

Vesentini's father was an Italian anarchist who fled fascism in the state of São Paulo. Vesentini worked as a geography teacher in middle schools and received his doctorate in 1985 under Manoel Seabra with a thesis on Brazil's capital Brasília ( A capital da geopolítica ). For many years he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences (FFLCH) of the University of São Paulo , where he supervised master's and doctoral theses; In 2003 he became livre docente .

Vesentini published numerous didactic works for geography lessons in middle schools as well as articles on geopolitics , political geography and epistemology or history of geographical thought. For some he is considered to be the innovator of critical geography in Brazil.

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