Integration and structure of the Amazonian territory as a result of capitalist expansion in Brazil

  • José Antônio Herrera Universidade Federal do Pará
  • José Queiroz de Miranda Neto Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Rodolfo Pragana Moreira Universidade Federal do Pará
Keywords: Amazônia, Territory, Capitalist Expansion

Abstract

The Brazil to undergo external interference in its configuration led to a social and economic framework of regional inequalities that accentuates every attempt to integrate the territories, mainly by adopting a model in which appropriates natural resources available at minimal cost to the capital, forming different territories from the imposition of capital itself. In this sense the text is in scope for reflection on the consequences of this dynamic for Amazon, after the integration of the Amazon to the national economic triggered the redefinition of social relations transforming the zone configuration to constitute a territory ruled by the coexistence and rationalities dispute as to ownership of land, the use of natural resources and the expectation of social reproduction. The period of economic history guided along the lines of Amazon dual cedes space to complex relationships in the value of trade in which the subjects live on the capital expansion in the territory. Instead of the Amazon border region becomes a territory boundaries, conditioned by the capital team that relies adversity to establish its different forms in the configuration necessary for their reproduction and growth.

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Author Biography

José Antônio Herrera, Universidade Federal do Pará
Professor/pesquisador da Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA / Campus de Altamira, lotado na Faculdade de Geografia. Possui graduação em Licenciatura Plena Em Ciências Agrárias pela Universidade Federal do Pará (2001) e mestrado em Agriculturas Amazônicas pela Universidade Federal do Pará (2003). Doutorado em Desenvolvimento Econômico, Espaço e Meio Ambiente pelo Instituto de Economia da UNICAMP. Tem experiência na área de Economia, com ênfase em Desenvolvimento Econômico, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Desenvolvimento e Territótio; Dinâmicas Agrárias; Economia Agrária e dos Recursos Naturais; Produção Agropecuária Familiar; Gestão dos Recursos Naturais
Published
2012-11-24
How to Cite
HERRERA, J. A.; MIRANDA NETO, J. Q. DE; MOREIRA, R. P. Integration and structure of the Amazonian territory as a result of capitalist expansion in Brazil. Boletim de Geografia, v. 31, n. 2, p. 19-36, 24 Nov. 2012.
Section
Artigos científicos