Name: EVANDRO ARRUDA DE MARTINI
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 06/03/2023
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
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| CÁSSIO ARRUDA BOECHAT | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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Role |
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| CARLOS TEIXEIRA DE CAMPOS JÚNIOR | Internal Alternate * |
| CÁSSIO ARRUDA BOECHAT | Advisor * |
Summary: Unlike studies that consider a region, territory or population as isolated, this research seeks to highlight the mediations between a general process of global modernization and the particularities of the modernization of Brazil and the northern coast of Espírito Santo state, inserted in the expanded reproduction of capitalist relations. Concepts and categories such as sertão, virgin land, frontier, pioneer, work and commodity are investigated in relation with the period in which they are used: the concepts change as the processes take place. The mediations of traditional populations in the northern coast of Espírito Santo with the external society are studied since the 19th century: we observe a process that had as its logical goal their integration into the
mass of the civilized population as workforce, at the same time when their territories were expropriated, as land became autonomous as a commodity. This integration did not happen exactly as planned, but the projects did move processes in reality. In the twentieth century, there are many modernizing projects and actions concerning this northern coast of Espírito Santo, which, for a long time, was considered a decadent region with obsolete social relations. Planning is consolidated through universities and other developmental institutions. We seek to explain and criticize the theoretical
foundations of geography and other sciences that planned this modernization in rational terms in the 20th century. In the 1970s and 1980s, some territories on the north coast underwent a more accelerated modernization with the eucalyptus export complex and other regional development enterprises. At the same time, in certain contexts, external threats intensify the struggles of traditional populations. More recently, the paradigm shift from the processes of colonization of virgin lands and civilizing the indigenous to the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples, quilombolas and other traditional
populations summarizes the changes between the long process of odernization led by a planning State the latter also in the process of formation and a more recent period characterized by a crisis-managing State. In this more recent moment, we analyze the conflicts and controversies about large port projects designed and/or implemented on the north coast, given the supposed vocation of Espírito Santo for ports and exportation. Large ports justify themselves socially by generating expectations of job creation, but
actually these ports mobilize increasingly fewer local people as workers.
