Monopoly capital and social resistance: the agrarian and agriculture in Brazilian medium-sized cities

• Grant number: 14/06951-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: April 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Jose Gilberto de Souza
• Grantee: Jose Gilberto de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ana Claudia Giannini Borges ; Vicente Eudes Lemos Alves

Abstract

This project examines the role of monopoly capital and the forms of social resistance in Brazilian medium-sized cities. The focus is on the transformation of the agrarian landscape, and their models of commodity production and forms of resistance. From a critical reading of the political economy of agribusiness and its accumulation strategies (public funds, commodity and land markets) analyzes the behavioral pattern of these processes, forms of organization and dynamics socioproductive territorialisation. The empirical basis are medium-sized cities with different characteristics (product, market, land structure, forms of production and social resistance): São José do Rio Preto, Dourados, Mossoró e Chapecó. (AU)