Manoel Rodrigues Alves

Miradas e instrumentos para la catalogación de paisajes latinoamericanos. Perspectivas emergentes

The paper explores and discusses theoretical and instrumental tools associated with the production of Latin American landscapes from the perspective of networking. The analysis emphases on stressing current international instruments with arguments focused on elements and dimensions that explain and make sense on them. From a glaze that emphasizes social relations as territorializing agent, the document describes the theoretical perspectives that support the design of the instruments to apprehend and recognize the social production of landscapes. Rather than a finished work itself, is explored some of the converging work lines within a research group in training, the Inter-University Network of Latin American Landscapes (RIPLA) In the first part, the paper presents the analysis of the of instruments construction process in the Latin American context. Then, three research lines that converge in the RIPLA landscapes approach are exposed. Finally, it addresses the agreements, discrepancies, challenges and opportunities for the knowledge production in the framework of cooperative work in net