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When planning goes to Brejo: labor mobility and territorial planning in the modernization of the Velho Chico

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Author(s):
Erick Gabriel Jones Kluck
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Heinz Dieter Heidemann; Vicente Eudes Lemos Alves; Amelia Luisa Damiani; Armando Fornazier; Manoel Fernandes de Sousa Neto
Advisor: Heinz Dieter Heidemann
Abstract

The developed research refers to the modernization process, understood as the territorialization of capitals social relations, in the present moment of States planning within the territorial perspective (Territory of Identity Program) at the Medium São Francisco Valley, more precisely at the municipality of Barra/BA rural communities of the Brejos da Barra (Barra Swamps). Recent transformations of the labor reproduction dynamics of local smallholders unfold a process in which the State armed with the territorial perspective of planning action and by other actions involving the disposing of benefits, incentives, subsides, and land regularization disseminates and stimulates several programs more and more determining smallholders social reproduction. This has not been accepted without critics. On one hand, the current critics tend to present other proposals of territorialization, more connected to the aims of the involved communities, such as the promotion of land permanence, although more monetized. On the other, they are opposed by the very State once it makes viable the facilities to enterprise actions with plans towards energy production, mining and commercial agriculture, constantly threatening these communities territories and promoting the labor mobility. Both the State and the critics have elected the territory as the center of their practices involving a double side aspect: that of the constriction and of the territorial confining of smallholders and peasants. Nonetheless, the recent process as a whole has a social and historical violent determination of a categorical imposition, turned even more critical by the modernization, marked by a contradictory dynamics of unfolding and generalizing the social mediations, such as labor, money, commodity and the State, that pass through all the social actors of the related actions. Therefore, in this research we also turn to the history of the imposition of those social mediations, discussing their formation, in order to understand the recent moment as part of the critical concrete unfolding of social relations. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/21887-0 - When planning goes into the Brejo: mobility of labor and territorial planning in the modernization of Velho Chico.
Grantee:Erick Gabriel Jones Kluck
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate