Banca de DEFESA: IÑIGO ARRAZOLA ARANZABAL

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : IÑIGO ARRAZOLA ARANZABAL
DATE: 13/09/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala virtual do POSGEO RNP https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/webconf/posgeo-ufba
TITLE:

OLD ISSUES IN NEW CLOTHES: CONTINUITIES AND RUPTURES IN SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS CAUSED BY CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF AGRO-INDUSTRY EXPANSION IN CHAPADA DIAMANTINA, BAHIA.

KEY WORDS:

agribusiness, conflicts, neoliberalization of nature, Chapada Diamatina.

PAGES: 459
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Agrária
SUMMARY:

In this thesis we analyse the socio-spatial forms of the agribusiness contemporary
expansion in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, and its arising conflicts, with the aim to
understand the continuities and ruptures caused by the restructuring of the sector in the
last decades. Using the analytic tools of Latin American Political Ecology, we place the
current water conflicts in the Chapada as an update of the historical ways trough which
people and extra-human nature have been produced as colonial objects of conquest. We
understand the dynamics of capital expansion in the countryside within the frame of
accumulation by displacement. These dynamics, besides expelling people from their living
spaces, are based on the accumulation of surplus labour value and surplus nature that
short-circuit the reproductive cycles of life. We also wonder about the specific nature of
this expansion in the current context of the neoliberalization of nature, pointing out two
aspects: financialization and rentierism. In both of them we are able to identify continuities
from previous periods, like the providing of public subsidized credit for agribusiness. In
addition, we also find new elements, as the diversity of strategies for the appropriation of
the rent of land developed by the sector - analysed from two geographic dimensions based
on territory and networks- in various economic sectors and different positions in agro-food
production networks. Next, we analyse the dynamics of sense productions related to this
process of expansion and its conflicts. For this, we use the frame of the critical Cultural
Political Economy and the dialectic between justification and critique inherent to
socioeconomic processes. Both approaches are used regarding the incompleteness of the
capital-relation, with the purpose of complementing our analysis considering the ways
through which the agribusiness tries to absorb the critiques directed to it and justify its own
activities. Finally, we deal with the transit from government to governance, so praised in
literature, as a continuity of the ways of political domination, even though it also brought
transformations. We consider the ways through which the sector continues to exercise
state power throughout the water and environmental governance systems. In this way, we
try to enrich our understanding of the hegemonic power of agribusiness to the same extent
that its expansion is assumed as a state strategic project.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1374187 - NOELI PERTILE
Externo ao Programa - 1449472 - FELIPE MILANEZ PEREIRA - UFBAExterno à Instituição - JOAO CLEPS JUNIOR - UFU
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA MACEDO ALENCAR - UCSal
Externo à Instituição - RUBÉN CAMILO LOIS GONZÁLEZ