Abstract

The epistemology enunciated in the proceeding lines asks and continuously repeats: Why and for whom are territorial studies?, suggesting through these that approaches to local processes essentially require the application of interdisciplinary points of view and methods matched with modelizations that contain the double challenge: first, to be open to reflexion and, second to possibly be applied to the immediate local reality. In the first part of the text, and starting from the relationship between knowledge and territory, the need to develop an epistemology of territory is discussed; in the second part, a virtualization of the local territory is advanced in the context of the world-system. These notes for an epistemology of territorial studies constitute an open invitation to deparalize thinking and actions that deal with territory in order to, from there, comment about the replica-in-process of the local.