Neither spatial Keynesianism, nor competitive neolocalism: rescaling and restructuring the developmental state and the production of space in Brazil

Development as we know it? Change and continuity in the production of urban and regional space in Brazil

“…1 Most of the papers were developed and discussed during two workshops that were held in São Paulo (November 2010) and in Oxford (March 2011) as part of this project. Klink et al (2013) put the persistent socialspatial and environmental contradictions in Brazilian cities within a critical state spatial perspective of continuous and contradictory rescaling, rolling back and rolling out of the state. Thus, the regulatory roll-out and interventionism of the recent Brazilian developmental momentum cannot be dissociated from the excessive rollback/downsizing that occurred during the 1990s.…”

O litoral da macrometrópole: tão longe de Deus e tão perto do Diabo

“…Esse território vem sendo marcado por conflitos regionais e locais significativos (Santos & Turra, 2017) na proporção dos impactos ambientais sobre seus recursos naturais, de políticas setoriais desconexas e da ausência de governança que articule a diversidade de atores (Torres et al, 2019). Trata-se ainda de uma cartografia forjada de modo a servir à lógica da contemporânea produção capitalista do espaço, no bojo de um processo global de financeirização do território (Klink et al, 2013), em processo que compreende movimentos de re-territorialização e re-escalonamentos (Torres et al, 2020), com acentuado desenvolvimento desigual.…”