A territorialização do setor sucroenergético no município de Morrinhos - Goiás: transformações territoriais e (re)existências
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2016-04-27
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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As stated by Alves (2007), the productive restructuring of capital expresses the social
metabolic reformulation of the capitalist system. In this constant creative action, as Harvey
(2011) expresses, the conditions for adaptation and conjuncture creation are drawn up, by
which capitalism ensures the exploitative hegemony over labor. Meanwhile, the modernizing
action of the Brazilian territory, consisted of geopolitics that guaranteed the capitalist
expansion across the country. Among the various structural crisis of capital, the 1970s crisis
deserves emphasis for its re-articulation of the territories on a global scale. In Brazil, starting
from the late 1980's, the productive restructuring of capital was based on the idea of a
supporting neoliberal government, that, as an ideological background of the restructuring
process, began to attack the practice of market being controled by government, blaming such
practice for the social illness, and implementing the idea of Minimum State by which large
corporations would control the economy. The privatizing policies became the flagship of
Brazilian politics of that period. In this context, the Brazilian countryside is considered
strategic, as happens the strengthening of the actions of large corporations, that start to control
important slices of the Brazilian production, by means of agroindustrial complexes
responsible for the production of commodities to the world market with substantial spatial
developments. Following this line, we investigate the territorialization of capital, from the
modernization of the countryside in the city of Morrinhos - Goiás. We assume that this
activity is the result of the capital productive restructuring in Brazil that occurred in Goiás by
the end of the 1970s. This reality puts Goiás as a strategic point for the productive logic of
capital, and the modernization of the countryside as one of the facets of the process of
appropriation and use of its territories. The city of Morrinhos enters this logic due to the
economic importance that the countryside plays, starting from the arrival of the sugarcane
industry which became one of the main productive activities of the city. In this sense, our
objective is to understand the socio-spatial implications of capital territorialization by the
sugarcane industry in the city of Morrinhos; the new production relations, social and
environmental effects, changes in the dairy industry and others, in the frame of the destructive
and concentrating capital action. To confront the expansionist action of capital in the city of
Morrinhos, we considered the destructive action in the countryside education, the effects in
dairy farming and the (Re)Existence set up by the peasant communities. Therefore, we
researched COOPERFAT - Cooperative of Family Farmers of Tijuqueiro settlement, and the
Morrinhos public policies (PAA and PNAE) that present significant elements of autonomy in
relation to agribusiness. For this, a literature review was done, a fieldwork, data collection and
document research regarding the city, and interviews with a number of subjects involved in the
process of territorialization of sugarcane activity in the city of Morrinhos. Finally, it was
noticed that the peasants/family farmers when they appropriate public policies, they set up
political actions, in view of social reproduction and ensure healthy food, work, income
generation and sustainability.
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Setor sucroenergético, Município de Morrinhos (GO), (Re) existências, Sugar-energy sector, City of Morrinhos (GO), (Re) existence
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MARCELINO, Marcos Antonio. A territorialização do setor sucroenergético no município de Morrinhos - Goiás: transformações territoriais e (re)existências. 2016. 114 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Geografia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Catalão, 2016.