Geohistory, an approach to the venezuelan space study through an interdisciplinary standpoint

Abstract

In Venezuela, the unlike development is expressed through the lack of spatial balance, a centralized spatial structure is prevailing since 1950 (Ceballos, B.) reflecting the country’s shift to one associated with oil income. The Geohistorical approach (Tovar, R. 1986) is a theorical and methodological conception to deal with the analysis of the geographic standpoint. That is, space as a social product as the result of the human behavior from his own historical reality. Geohistory is defined by Santaella, R. (1990) as “the relation between geography and history, an interdisciplinary condition to study the space and its process. Geography is part of the historical process and it needs the history to be explained temporariness and space are based on the same category process. Space (national, regional, local, commercial, industry, rural…) has his own process, complexity, and particularity according to definite historical conditions. If we analyze the space we have to start on the present as a summary of the process.