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The potential of the social representations aimed at the understanding of interdisciplinar reality: Geography and Environmental Psychology

The article intends to be a contribution for the discussions involving the interdisciplinarity between Geography and Environmental Psychology. This paper is expected to contribute to that debate based on the affinity between the two areas when space and environment are understood as social actors, that is, they are not neutral, but act upon societies and individuals who had produced, constructed and organized them. The limits among sciences are seen as tenuous and should be exceeded in order to surpass such partitioning of reality by means of interdisciplinary articulation of ideas and practices. It is considered that the social representations allow to overrun the limits between the two sciences and to unmask complex psychic and social relations within the surrounding areas of the Federal District.

interdisciplinarity; limits; social representations; space; environment; environmental psychology


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