Canaã dos Carajás: a laboratory study concerning the circumstances of urbanization, on the global periphery at the dawn of the 21st century
This article addresses the processes of urbanization and urban sprawl in Canaã dosCarajás, a small relatively recent Amazonian municipality. The analysis is dialectically structured accordingto Lefebvre’s interpretation of the levels of social reality. The global level captures how capital-intensive...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação e Pesquisa em Planejamento Urbano e Regional (ANPUR) |
| Repositório: | Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Online) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.rbeur.anpur.org.br:article/5484 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/5484 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Urbanização modernização impactos da mineração Amazônia Canaã dos Carajás. |
| Resumo: | This article addresses the processes of urbanization and urban sprawl in Canaã dosCarajás, a small relatively recent Amazonian municipality. The analysis is dialectically structured accordingto Lefebvre’s interpretation of the levels of social reality. The global level captures how capital-intensiveactivities (mining, ranching, and monoculture) have impacted the connection between the place of productionand the global market. The mixed level explains how local social groups, inspired by global processes, havemediated urbanization. The local level demonstrates how blind spots in understanding the ongoing processeshave impaired the strengthening of diversity, and led to the exclusion of social groups that most depend onthe land and nature. We conclude that it is necessary to articulate contemporary formulations and studies onBrazilian urbanization so as to demonstrate the selective manner in which modernization takes place andis constituted in new forms of colonization, whenever economic opportunities formulate socioenvironmentalissues in a conservative manner. |
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