Território, Estado e poder econômico: concessão de gás canalizado no estado de São Paulo e ação da empresa Compass Gás & Energia S.A.

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Larissa Gabriella Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/217439
• topic: Exploration of public service; Concession; Piped natural gas; Geografia econômica; Concessões administrativas; Distribuição de gás; Território ocupado

The territory used constitutes, historically, the inseparable set of actions of the actors involved - State and private institutions - in the territory, the materialization of actions, whether they are movements of society and industrial and service dynamics. Thus, the link between firms and the State modified the dynamics of the territory, being constituted by its agents and its stages in the current phase of capitalism, which we can analyze the national space within the international economy, that is, the use of space according to the resources and information available that the hegemonic agents have to act according to their interests. And, in view of this, we can notice the differentiation of the territories according to how the actors carry out their operations in a portion of the space, with a competition between the places. The domination of these agents in the territory demonstrates the character of "borderless" capitalism, where it is the phase that multinational corporations short-circuit the states, applying the so-called "external management of territories" (Santos, 2000), that is, the external execution in national territories. With this, we can question the role of private institutions and their interests before the policies of national states, which, in turn, are responsible for ensuring social welfare and guaranteeing the designs of multinational corporations in order to insert themselves in the dynamics of globalization. Thus, we propose to analyze the dynamics of private companies in national territories, especially the concession of piped gas in São Paulo and the performance of the corporation Compass Gas & Energy SA in the dispute to acquire more influence in the management of differentiated territories according to their wishes. In addition, the socio-spatial implications and changes in the Brazilian natural gas market after the New Regulatory Framework of 2020 presented by the federal government, which contributes to an even greater competition in the use of territory by the concessionaires, also come into question. This is a demonstration of the phenomenon of the ingression of national politics in the dynamics of the international economy structure, which causes changes in the use of territory by economic agents and, in this process, the State, as a liberal agent of spatiality, has a fundamental role, in view of the fact that it articulates the national projects according to the particular attractions of the companies, providing the functioning of the event. To investigate this dynamic in depth is also to make available some perspectives on the dynamics of the use of territory in the current phase of capitalism.