Contornos da fronteira capitalista no século XXI: um olhar sobre o Cerrado e a Amazônia

Resumo

This paper aims to take a look at the current territorial characteristics of the Brazilian Center-North-Amazon region, based on the Cerrado and the Amazon Forest, identifying the elements that outline the capitalist frontier in this early 21st century. It highlights the way that medium-sized cities have served the capitalist precepts in the recent process of urbanization of the region and seeks to relate the transformations that occurred in the Cerrado territory from the modernization imposed by capitalism, through an urban restructuring through which the Midwest region. has been going through the mid-twentieth century with the process of expanding the economic frontier over the Amazon. It starts from the understanding that the Brazilian State fits the demands of the world capitalism through the implantation of the urban-industrial model. Regional development policies implemented mainly after the 1940s made it possible to capture this territory through capital, and state arrangements made it possible to invest in infrastructure, create planning agencies, and foster population migration flows towards polarizing cities. The approach method is the Historical and the detached analysis is the Dialectic, and this work is the partial result of a component research of the projects “PGPSE / CAPES Territorial Development and Sociobiodiversity: perspectives for the Cerrado World” and “PROCAD / CAPES Territory”, Environment and Rural-Urban-Regional Dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon ”.

Descrição

Palavras-chave

Fronteira capitalista, Políticas de desenvolvimento regional, Urbanização, Cerrado e Amazônia, Capitalist frontier, Regional development policies, Urbanization, Cerrado and Amazon

Citação

OLIVEIRA, Adão Francisco de; FERREIRA, Rogério Castro; BARREIRA, Celene Cunha M. A. Contornos da fronteira capitalista no século XXI: um olhar sobre o Cerrado e a Amazônia. Caminhos de Geografia, Uberlândia, p. 76–88, dez. 2020. Edição especial.