Revista Eletrônica Internacional de Economia Política da Informação, da Comunicação e da Cultura

The EPTIC Journal invites submissions for the Thematic Dossier “Milton Santos: capitalist development, territory and socio-spatial inequalities in the 21st century,” in homage to the centenary of this extraordinary intellectual of the human and social sciences. The dossier is organized by Professors Christiane Senhorinha Soares Campos and Eliane Regina Francisco da Silva, members of the Postgraduate Program in Geography – PPGEO and the Professional Postgraduate Program in Economics – PROPEC at the Federal University of Sergipe. Texts must be submitted by June 30, 2026.

Milton Santos contributed decisively to the renewal of Brazilian geography from the end of the 1970s. During that period, geographical production was based on description and the discourse of the neutrality of technique and science, but a large part of geographical research served the demands of authoritarian governments. The critical geography movement, of which Milton Santos was one of the most active participants, questioned the theoretical and empirical foundations of geographical science, placing the analysis of reality as the objective of knowledge production in the area, contributing to highlighting that geographic space and, consequently, socio-spatial inequalities are socially produced.
It was from this critical perspective that Milton Santos published more than 40 books and 300 articles, always addressing highly relevant topics, such as the contradictions of urbanization in Latin America; the divided space produced by capitalist development in peripheral countries; the role of technology in the process of capital accumulation; the centrality of territory in addressing the territorial dynamics of globalization; and globalization as a process that favored the fluidity of capital but restricted the movement of people and citizenship, deepening socio-spatial inequalities on multiple scales, from the local to the global, including the regional and national.

Given the relevance of the concepts and debates developed by Milton Santos, which transcend the boundaries of geography and open up possibilities for analysis in different areas of knowledge, such as Economics and Communication, this dossier invites researchers to submit articles that engage with the work of this author. Among the suggested themes are:

- Globalization and its contradictions;

- Production of urban and regional space;

- Socio-spatial inequalities;

- The techno-scientific-informational environment;

- Networks and flows;

- Territorial planning;

- Critical geography;

- The spatial circuits of accumulation;

- Territorial dynamics of capital expansion in the countryside;

- Communication and territory;

- Territory and development in Brazil and Latin America;

- Geographic space and territory in the reading of Milton Santos;

- Milton Santos's thought in dialogue with other interpretations of Brazil;

- Method in the reading of Milton Santos;

Structuralism and Marxism in the theoretical work of Milton Santos.