THE RECOMPOSITION OF THE SCALES OF GOVERNANCE, STATE AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The global process of spatial rearrangement of human actions put in focus new themes and scales of analysis of the territory, such as local and regional, that simultaneous to the scale of the union of countries in blocks, result in opening possibilities for multilevel governance structures, or impose redefinition of the roles of the states. It is in this scenario, that the territory emerges as a source or strategy of political power and economic, of dispute of groups or social classes whom have different interests and often conflicting. In this sense, the theme on State and public intervention is important because it constitutes the scale of phenomena arising from the decisional institutional universe of the political territorially centralized, when growing the importance of the decentralization of state power. The aim of this paper is to show that the recomposition of the scales of global, regional and local phenomena define significant parts for the management of territorial policies, while grow the challenges of cooperation and coordination. Thus, we reiterate here the relevance of the contributions from political geography and institutionalist political economics, analyzing, each in its own way, as how political phenomena and institutional forms are territorialized and cut out significant spaces of governance of social relations, their interests, commitments, conflicts, control, domination and power.