Modernização territorial e redes técnicas em Goiás

• Autor(a) principal: Castilho, Dênis
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3500
• topic: Modernização territorial; Redes técnicas; Política-ação; Goiás; Territorial modernization; Technical networks; Politics action; GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA REGIONAL

If modernity marks a historical period influencing society as a whole, despite of the imperatives of this period, modernization varies in time and space. It means that there are modernizations and not necessarily a single modernization. Despite of having roots and strong connections with events triggered in Europe at first, that's why modernizations performed in Brazil do not have the same procedure as that continent. This led us to consider territorial modernization as an expansion of the capitalist mode process by places or as a spatial manifestation of modernity itself. With this in mind, the aim of this study was to understand the meanings of modernization and territorial dimension of this phenomenon in Goiás. So, we analyze the concept and present four common problems in contemporary debates. The first concerns to its naturalization in scientific community. The second concerns the way space is designed. The third is about the analysis of modern process by pairs opposites and separate, which inevitably culminate in dualistic approaches . The fourth is a reflection of the theoretical dualism of interpretations on goiano territory. The discussion of these problems has led us to propose some possible ways of interpretation. From the first issue we present the need of discussing the meanings of modernization, the second, the proposed analysis of this phenomenon as a territorial process, the third and fourth, the interpretive way through technical networks because these are strategic components of action of social actors and important means of expansion of modernization and the connection among places, especially in the current context. Among technical networks we use transport (railway and highway) and electricity as examples to understand the spatial distribution of modern processes in Goiás . From a theoretical-methodological perspective, these networks were analyzed considering the genesis and evolution (formation), the role of social actors (politics-action) and materialization of the processes (spatial distribution). The methodological procedures were based on literature research, documentary research in both print and on-line collections of public and private institutions, field work and mapping. The analysis of railway, highway and electricity networks considered their influences in the organization of goiano territory in different periods, but also how they were formed according to actions of social actors, especially the State. This way proved that politics always preceded and grounded technical-productive elements. However, if the territorial scope modernization is dictated by politics, its operation becomes basically the technical networks, that´s why they are constituted as strategic components and means by which certain groups act to dominate other groups and pieces of space. That's why nowadays, despite of achieving its full form – obtaining a capability to "pulverize" never seen in history before - how places are absorbed and / or produced within the social relations of production shows features that also emerge from modernization: differentiation and spatial inequality. The formation of privileged spaces is a symptom of this process and draws attention to the fact that despite the densification of technological increments and connections among places, tensions also are spread everywhere, putting in contact the diversity of the world, but also the aggressiveness of the actions. That's why modernization should be thought as a process, once its production is limited, above all, in political and territorial levels.