Territorial work mobility and capture of subjectivity of the youngs in biofuels production territories in the Meta department (Colombia) and Pontal do Paranapanema (São Paulo, Brazil)

• Grant number: 15/10470-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2016
• End date: May 04, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Thomaz Júnior
• Grantee: Robinzon Piñeros Lizarazo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/23959-9 - Mapping and analysis of territory of sugarcane agrohidrobusiness in the Pontal do Paranapanema region - São Paulo State - Brazil labor relations, conflict and land and water use and environmental health, AP.BIOEN.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/04426-3 - Corporate social responsibility as a strategy to control labor in agrofuel production territories in the Department of Meta and Casanare (Colombia), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The productive capital restructuring has changed the geographical dynamics of capitalism, generating many reflexes on territorial work division. The consequences at countryside are the advance of monocultures for agrofuel production, linked to global energy market, politics of sustainable development and class interests on state apparatus. Its assessed Latin America as an ideal region for this kind of development, according as big land extensions of producing soils, hydric availability (superficial and aquifer), and infrastructure. In these field, Brazil and Colombia are highlighted two of the countries with a big territorialization of those processes. Facing this, this research has as general purpose understand the expansion of agrohidrobussines of agrofuels in two areas of those countries, the Pontal of Paranapanema at Sao Paulo State (Brazil), and the Meta Department (Colombia), and their unfolding for mobility and subjectivity capture of young work force. The methodological procedures built to elucidate the research, are grounded in qualitative methodology, conceiving the differences between both territories as dialectic expressions of unequal development. The questionings are inscribed in three axes: a) The growth of agrofuels at these countries, to unravel the forms of territorial division of labour, b) the scales and temporalities of mobility of young people labour force for plantations, and in agrofuel processing units, c) the management and control ways anchored on the subjectivity capture and the forms or resistance and struggle as reflex of (un)belonging class processes.Facing this, this research has as general purpose understand the expansion of agrohidrobussines of agrofuels in two areas of those countries, the Pontal of Paranapanema at Sao Paulo State (Brazil), and the Meta Department (Colombia), and their unfolding for mobility and subjectivity capture of young work force. The methodological procedures built to elucidate the research, are grounded in qualitative methodology, conceiving the differences between both territories as dialectic expressions of unequal development. The questionings are inscribed in three axes: a) The growth of agrofuels at these countries, to unravel the forms of territorial division of labour, b) the scales and temporalities of mobility of young people labour force for plantations, and in agrofuel processing units, c) the management and control ways anchored on the subjectivity capture and the forms or resistance and struggle as reflex of (un)belonging class processes.

Academic Publications

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

LIZARAZO, Robinzon Piñeros. Territorial labor mobility of young rural workers in flex-crops territories. Oil palm in the departments of Meta and Casanare (Colômbia) and sugar cane at the Pontal do Paranapanema (São Paulo, Brazil). 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente Presidente Prudente.