Background
Vesentini is a grandson of Italian anarchists who came to Brazil to escape fascism.
geographer university professor author
Vesentini is a grandson of Italian anarchists who came to Brazil to escape fascism.
He teaches geography and areas of political geography and geopolitics, and is regarded as a pioneer of critical geography. In 1984 he became a professor and researcher in the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences at University of São Paulo (FFLCH). His work Brazil: Society and Space, published in 1984, was the first textbook to adopt the approach of critical geography, which served as a reference for most subsequent Brazilian geography manuals.
Within academia, Vesentini is better known as William Vesentini.
He is livre-docente since 2003 at the Department. Among his areas of greatest contribution in geography are geography and geopolitics, on which he wrote more than 30 books
He conducted consultancies for schools, state and local departments of education and research institutions and / or specialized publications. He explained Brazil"s public and private positions on Brazilian Geography, as well as Milton Santos, Aziz Ab"Saber, Jurandyr Ross, Manuel Correia de Andrade, Ruy Moreira, Antonio Christofoletti, among others
