2017-02-022015-02-04PINHEIRO, Robinson Santos. Presentes e ausentes: Os Sertões euclidiano no imaginário e na política de desenvolvimento do Brasil semiárido (2003 – 2014). 2015. 184 f. Tese (Doutorado em Geografia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2015.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6813The literary work Os Sertões (1902), by Euclides da Cunha, is considered a founder of Brazilian nationality. In it, more than narrate and denounce the Canudos War (1896 – 1897), Euclides da Cunha designed a future for Brazil. In his imagination, the future would be in the national integration through the values and pratices of Western modern society. The Euclidean discourse in a systematically way from 1930 to the early twenty-first century becomes the major project for Brazilian State. Integrat the territory from Western modern precepts, is hegemonized as possibility for a “great Brazil”, promoting economic growth and social development, while the second is limited to the first. The thesis aimed to understand the contemporaneity of the Euclidean projetct. For this, we sought to interpret the state of the imaginary form the National Policy for Regional – PNDR – established in 2003. As analysis space, it was interpreted the socio-spatial transformations in the semiarid region during 13 year of operation of the PNDR. Looking closer to “Os Sertões” and the limited space for the study, there was the field and the analysis of Bahia’s micro-region of de Euclides da Cunha, involving nine municipalities. Five municipalities (Euclides da Cunha – old Cumbe -, Monte Santo, Tucano, Uauá, Canudos – old Belo Monte) are mentioned by Euclides da Cunha. Thus, the choice of semi-arid and the micro-region of Euclides da Cunha comes from the fact that these correspond physically and socially whith the space that through PNDR enabled us to verify that the Euclidean project remains in its respective specificity, in the base of the State’s action; thus concludes with the interpretation of modernizing integration imaginary, that this is a process that is not ending. The spatial imagery analysis of Os Sertões and PNDR allowed to understand that in the meeting points of yesterday with “today”, the history of state intervention trought the modernizing integration served as instrument of a cicle for social strutctures (political and economic) conservative. The state does not promote significant improvements to building a more just Brazil. The modernization in the way reproduced in historiy, is a scam legitimized by the sate. And that’s the point of orientation of the analysis / interpretation / reading Os Sertões to contemporary: overcoming the institutionalized deception involving imaginary of Brazilian spaces.application/pdfAcesso AbertoOs SertõesIntegraçãoModernizaçãoEstado-Nação BrasilPNDROs SertõesIntegrationModernizationNation-State BrazilPNDRCIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIATese