Brazil: Understanding how the Rural Territorial Development Public Policies (DTR) during the governments Lula and Dilma Roussef

• In Event: Brazilian Politics (II)

Abstract

In Brazil the use of the territorial term was incorporated into the public policies of rural development during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso FHC (1995-2015) government and their scope intensified with the arrival of the Workers' Party (PT) to power (2003-2016). The inclusion of the territorial term in the agenda of the PT occurs in the middle of a minimal state, which progressively exempts itself from its rights-guaranteeing role, shrinking its social responsibilities and transferring them to civil society under the participation bias. In this sense, this article aims to: a) analyze the political context in which the incorporation of the territorial term occurred in the agenda of the PT, analyzing from a geographical perspective, some misunderstandings created from the junction of two terms of polysemic content: development and territory; b) The inability of this public policy to absorb the demands arising from the materialization of the struggles carried out by the main Brazilian socio-territorial movement, the Movement of Landless Rural Workers of the MST, in the context of the contradictions and social conflicts manifested in space; c) to delimit the limits of the concept of Public Policies of (DTR) from its purely instrumental and normative conception of territory as a place of government. From this correlated analysis, we present how the Public Policies of (DTR) in the analyzed period treated the territorial conflicts of the Brazilian field as technical problems, adopting strategies of an administrative nature and not as impasses of a civilizational nature.

Author

• Anderson Antonio A Silva, Universidade Federal de Goiás