Relações campo-cidade na Região Norte Fluminense: ruralidades e urbanidades em transformação

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Pedro Paulo Biazzo de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13363
• topic: Country-city relations; Space reorganization; North Region of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Relações campo-cidade; Reorganização do espaço; Região Norte Fluminense; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

Traditionally connected to sugarcane cultivation and production, the North Fluminense Region - a group of cities located in the Rio de Janeiro state - has been being targeted by intensive process of territorial reorganization, such as the following: the decline in agribusiness sugar and ethanol sector and in sugarcane fields; the large expansion of oil exploration on Campos continental shelf; the recent emancipation of districts and creation of 5 municipalities; the receipt and investment of resources arising from royalties payment to municipalities; the accelerated expansion of Macaé, which is getting close to Campos as main urban regional center; and, lastly, the development of a Frutificar program, which has recently originated the irrigated passion fruit, pineapple and coconut fields, particularly in São Francisco do Itabapoana and Campos. The main object of this research is investigate how territorial reorganization has been happened concerning the arrangement of country and city forms and functions that embrace ruralidades and urbanidades. A bibliographic review regarding country-cities relations in order to question some points of view about this subject restricted by not clearly distinguish campo from rural and cidade from urbano was accomplished. It is an attempt to clarify the different sets of meanings attributed to such expressions and to refuse a productivity bias belongs to the sociology of agriculture and so generally dear to agricultural geography. The research develops a perspective through functions and rural customs that does not disappear in the face of urbanization because they are built by social agents. While cidade and campo are forms in territory, rural and urbano are social contents of these forms, which can be combined and settled in the same places and in the practices of the same social agents. Expressions like espaço rural and espaço urbano are refused and are replaced by the presence of ruralidades and urbanidades in the fluminense territory referring not exactly to an area or to a way of life but to habits, customs, functions and rationalities. The innovation consists in including urbano in rural, and vice versa, with the awareness that one is considering from the other. Briefly, there is a theoretical and methodological criticism of interpretations about country-cities relations focus on North Fluminense Region.