¿De qué se habla cuando se habla de territorio?

Abstract

The present article is a first approximation to the existing academic production of the social sciences during the last decades, around the notion of “territory” and, at the same time, a theoretical exercise of explanation of the link between this notion and the research lines of the academic group in which the author enrolls. It is motivated by the need of revision and specification of a nodal concept for many researches in the field of our disciplines in which it is used and treated in a vague, polysemic way, and without major theoretical precision that allows positioning or distancing from meanings that don’t reflect researches’s perspective. We try to contribute to the understanding of the postulate sustained by the PEC that expresses “popular economy” -the universe on which our research lines are basedis territorialized. Also, we will try to highlight some contributions from the social sciences that can be offer specifically to professionals dedicated to urban sociology as well as to architecture and urbanism, in what refers to thinking territory and practical consequences of the perspective we adopt.