This paper tries to understand the transformations in the ways of insertion of Latin America in the context of geopolitical eras, trying to show their causes and, above all, their consequences, in the context of the new contemporary geopolitics in which the region moves from a passive or marginal position to assume her own outlines of autonomy, sometimes marked as danger areas. The analysis surpasses the simple position of the region in Western geopolitics, and is based on an exercise of a geopolitics of the knowledge. Thus, the author rescues the main contributions of the literature on processes of continuities of geopolitical orders, permeated by mutations, identifying the successive geopolitical eras of John Agnew that grosso modo are correlated with the existing geopolitical orders: the naturalizer geopolitics, from the beginnings of the XX century; the post-Second World War era, of the ideological geopolitics; and the formation of a new geopolitical era with the end of the Cold War. In this latter Latin America is highlighted with her own outlines, sometimes marked as danger areas.
Latin America; modern geopolitics; knowledge geopolitics; representation of space; hegemony
