Contradições e Dinâmicas Sociais e Econômicas na Fronteira da Paz

Abstract

This paper is part of a research about the characteristics and tendencies of the socioeconomic dynamics that result from local organizations in Livramento-Rivera, cities located in the border Brazil-Uruguay. The theoretical framework is based on the concept of regional structured coherence: processes of production and consumption, supply and demand (of commodities and labor force), production and realization, class struggle and accumulation, culture and livelihood, remain tight in a kind of structural coherence, which result from the articulation of productive and social forces. The research strategy adopted was the intrinsic and instrumental case study. In the first phase of field study, we identified two clusters of projects: those lead by economic and political established groups; and those articulated as innovative social processes. In the second phase, we found new projects and the prevalence of initiatives dominated by economic rationality. The regional coherence structured by the actors in the border Livramento-Rivera follows a historical and cultural pattern of the region, that is, the expectation of big projects propitiated by external actors; and reproduces the historical and cultural pattern of the land structure of property. The organization of projects alternative to the development logic, through intertwining with technical and organizational support institutions, leads to market oriented organizational practices which undermine the production of distinct logics of organizing.

Keywords

• regional structured coherence
• sant’ana do livramento (rs)
• rivera (uy)
• brasil
• uruguai border