New uses of the territory in the brazilian northeast semi-arid: installation of wind farms and selective exploitation of space.

• Grant number: 12/12419-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Márcio Antonio Cataia
• Grantee: Mariana Traldi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We aimed to investigate how the technical- scientific development and the subsequent implementation of Technical Systems reconfigures space and revalues its. To fulfill this task we take the electricity sector in terms of power generation, and more specifically the installation of wind farms in the brazilian northeast.We see wind farms as a "minor technical systems" that integrate the Brazilian Electric System, a "large technical system." The implementation of new technical objects - that make up the smaller systems - brings a new rationality, transforming the space legacy and redefines its current value.The modernization of the territory, through the installation of wind farms, imposes a new logic of capitalist use that disrupts the life of existing relationships and reclaims the space. The result is the regional capital that relate more among themselves than with their surroundings. What we have is an uneven geographical development, where portions of the territory receive certain amount of investments, whose ultimate purpose is the maximum reproduction of capital invested.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

TRALDI, Mariana. New uses of territory in the semiarid of Brazil: instalation of wind farms and selective valorization of Caetité (BA) and Joâo Câmara (RN). 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências Campinas, SP.