Name: ZANDOR GOMES MESQUITA
Type: PhD thesis
Publication date: 30/06/2021
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CLÁUDIO LUIZ ZANOTELLI | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CARLO EUGENIO NOGUEIRA | Internal Examiner * |
| CLÁUDIO LUIZ ZANOTELLI | Advisor * |
| FLORIANO JOSÉ GODINHO DE OLIVEIRA | External Examiner * |
| ROBERTO MORAES PESSANHA | External Examiner * |
| TERESA DE JESUS PEIXOTO FARIA | External Examiner * |
Summary: The discussions of the thesis are based on an investigation of the analysis of two main questions:
The discussions undertaken in the thesis are based on the analysis of two main questions: (1)
which processes influenced the conformation of North Fluminense? (2) Of the diferente
dynamics developed in this spatiality, from the 16th century to the present, which ones are still
present and characterize the regional? It is believed that from the understanding of these
different points, it is possible to comprehend the North Fluminense of today, highlighted on the
national scene for receiving Major Intervention Projects (such as Porto do Açu, the Campos
Basin oil exploration, among others that are still in the elaboration phase), but marked by
relations that are linked to the golden period of sugar cane activity. We start from the idea that
the constitution of a region, as emphasized by Bourdieu (1989), comes from a process of di-
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product of a certain period, influenced by contextual processes, historically constructed, linked
to it. At the same time, the region has a direct influence on the dynamics that will shape itself.
With this, it must be emphasized by its concrete aspects, emphasizing the characteristics of its
delimitation, and by its abstract plan, making explicit the relational issues that were present in
its materialization. Thus, there is the idea that there is no way to understand regional formation
without emphasizing the processes that have followed and that have influenced the dynamics
that shape the region. In the case of North Fluminense, its constitution bases date from the
beginning of Brazilian colonization, in the 16th century, but the most striking features are
constituted at the turn of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a moment in
which the sugarcane activity gains notoriety on the national scene , reinforcing the regional
structuring and the social, political and economic relations that characterize the region.
However, from the second half of the 20th century, especially after the 1970s, with the decline
of the sugar and ethanol sector and the intensification of oil production in the Campos Basin,
new dynamics are instituted in this regionalization. With the search for these answers, it is
believed that there will be a better possibility of understanding this complexity that constitutes
the current North Fluminense.
Keywords: Region; Regionalization; North Fluminense.
