São Paulos Green Belt: the relationship between city and countryside as a critical expression of the capital since the 1970s

Author(s)

Walid Mahmoud Abd Ellatif Mahmoud El Khatib

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2018-11-30

Examining board members

Anselmo Alfredo; Cássio Arruda Boechat; Alexandre Macchione Saes; Odette Carvalho de Lima Seabra

• Advisor: Anselmo Alfredo

Abstract

Sao Paulo\'s green belt appears to the fetishized consciousness as a phenomenal expression of the accumulation and the civilizational development of the capital. However, this same process, from the perspective of value criticism can be thought as an explicitness of the negative as a determination of social reproduction. In this sense, as from geographic literature and as from fieldwork the formation process of the green belt may be no longer understood as something given and naturalized, but as a social expression of the specific relationship between subject and object, in which is the negative that sets the identity of the terms. Therefore, it moves the scission between rural and urban, between city and countryside to other qualitatively different level, in which the scission predicated as negative requires an analysis of the explicitness from the constituent negativity of its logical and categorical moments. The critical production of value, engendered by the social development of the forces of production and by the social division of labor, engenders the immanent production of the negative as a determining element to the social reproduction, which in turn makes a phenomenon pursuant to the scission city-countryside and therefore the green belt. In the green belt agriculture and the real estate market confront one another mediated by financial capital, explaining in the apparent urbanization the otherwise of accumulation, explaining that the development of the green belt it is not set as an urbanization/accumulation, but as immanent negativity and crises of the capital. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/19127-6 - Sao Paulo's green belt: the municipality of Ibiúna in the relationship between rural and urban as a critical expression of capital from the 1970s onwards
• Grantee: Walid Mahmoud Abd Ellatif Mahmoud El Khatib
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master