Territórios chamados desejo: Da largueza dos conceitos à contenção das experiências

Abstract

Several reasons have contributed to focus the attention of the social sciences on dynamics linked to territory, in principle, where themes of power, development and social cohesion will now take on the most relevant contours. This article broaches the way in which territorial contexts have entered recent concepts of power and the State. It discusses the extent to which this is due to the realization that there are new ways of going about politics, from within the territories, or whether this serves instead to illustrate, at the “local” level, action modalities which are well-known and are of little innovative value.

Keywords

• territory
• local development
• social theory
• local government
• local administration
• governance