As parcerias, o desenvolvimento rural e o avanço neoliberal no campo: uma análise do projeto Pontal de Petrolina em Pernambuco

Abstract

This master's thesis in Agrarian Law is developed with the objective of analyzing the attempts to implement concessionary models in the Pontal Project in Petrolina, Pernambuco, and the adequacy of such legal-political instruments to approach the Brazilian agrarian question. Faced with the absence of a rural development project, based on land reorganization and public policies that reduce the social and economic inequalities of the countryside, as well as environmental degradation, inserting the different subjects and their ways of life into their propositions, together with the supposed insufficiency of state resources, partnerships between public power and private power could be an alternative to be universal? To answer this question, the hypothesis is that the partnerships are part of a neoliberal development model, while the agrarian question must be addressed from a socio-environmental perspective, considering nature and society as the center of public policies, rather than economic growth. Using a qualitative approach, based on a bibliographical, documentary and jurisprudential research, in addition to the indirect data analysis, it intends to contextualize the agrarian question and the concessionary models within a political and juridical scenario very influenced by the neoliberal ideals, based on a critical analysis of the interactions between market, state and society and their contradictions. Considering the failures of the concessional models in the Pontal project, the need for an institutional rearrangement that allows the implementation of public policies and a rural development project in a socio-environmental proposal, as opposed to the neoliberal model.