TERRITORIAL APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT AND ITS HUMAN AND INTELLECTUAL DIMENSION: A THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSITION IN THE LIGHT OF AMARTYA SEN AND JOHN THOMPSON

• Autor(a) principal: Mueller, Airton Adelar
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Maia, Cláudio, Gazolla, Márcio, Da Silva, Sidinei, Lutzer, Anderson, Tabasco, Julio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de gestão e desenvolvimento regional
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbgdr.net/revista/index.php/rbgdr/article/view/6519

This paper presents a theoretical-methodological proposition to support studies on the Human and Intellectual Dimension (HID) of territories, which, within the scope of the Territorial Approach to Development (TAD), is conceived as a type of territorial heritage. The main anchors to this purpose are Amartya K. Sen's Capability Approach and John B. Thompson's Depth Hermeneutics. From Sen, the concepts of Instrumental Freedoms and Agency are the main theoretical supports. Thompson’s proposition of empirical phases and combination/triangulation of different methods and techniques in each phase, provide the other necessary support to this proposition. In this article, the proposition is to work with phases in a progressive way, starting from the exploratory phase, passing through the descriptive and analytical-comparative phases, to culminate in the analytical-systematizing phase. Therefore, the approach developed here is called Progressive Triangulation. In general, this proposition sought to build a network with meshes of various sizes, which aims to capture structural aspects, as well as, aspects that are important only in a specific territory. Be doing so the intention is not to neglect aspects that really matter in each case. The proposal developed here has originality and potential to be applied to other dimensions of ATD, as well as to different studies in the social and human sciences.