This book offers an analysis of the territory of Barcarena, in the Brazilian Amazon. The author studies the land use and the implemented modernization policies that made it one of the richest cities of the state.
The political system uses this territory as a resource to provide for the needs of a small circle of social agents. A system of conservative political actions enforces the process of modernization of the Baracena territory. Innovations in the Barcarena territory, such as the implementation of the aluminium factory Albras/Alunorte and the territorial configuration or public administration, lead to modernization simulations and artificial devices. The intended effect however is more about appearing to be modern, than actual modernization. The territorial use of Barcarena is aimed to protect the interests and privileges of the elite.
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1 The Modern Territorial Reordering of Barcarena |
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1 | (30) |
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1.1 The Modernization Through Albras/Alunorte |
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5 | (13) |
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1.2 Locations of Spontaneous Occupation |
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18 | (5) |
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1.3 A Fabulous Place Planned: The Village of Cabanos |
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23 | (8) |
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28 | (3) |
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2 The Use of the Territory as a Resource by the Ruling Elite of Barcarena |
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31 | (22) |
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2.1 The Conservative Actions System |
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32 | (21) |
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2.1.1 The Dispatches Policy |
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34 | (6) |
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2.1.2 The Political Coercion |
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40 | (3) |
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2.1.3 The Centralization and the Opacity |
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43 | (6) |
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2.1.4 The City's Policy in the Works |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (2) |
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3 The Management of Laurival Magno Cunha and the Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility Law |
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53 | (16) |
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3.1 The Fiscal Responsibility Law: A State's Instrument of Reform |
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54 | (3) |
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3.2 The Fiscal Responsibility Law in Barcarena: Modernization and Conservation |
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57 | (12) |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (6) |
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73 | (2) |
| Annex---About the Sources of Verbal Information |
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75 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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Professor Joćo Santos Nahum is a research scientist in the field of agricultural geography in the Amazon, politics and the organization of agricultural areas, culture of the traditional population in the Amazon, social-ecological conflicts and natural resources in the Amazon. He graduated in Geography (1992) and Social Sciences (1995) from the Universidade Federal do Parį in Brazil. He specialized in State and Border (1996) and received his Masters title in Planning and Development Studies at the heart of the Amazon(2000). After a specialization in Geography and Environmental Planning at PUC-MG and Unesp-Rio, Joćo Santos Nahum obtained a Geography doctorate in Spatial Organization (2006). In 2008 prof. Joćo Santos Nahum joined the Instituto de Filosofia e Ciźncias Humanas (Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences) as a professor in Geography and Carthography in the Programa de Pós-Graduaēćo em Geografia da UFPA (Graduate Program of Geography of the UFPA).
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