http://hdl.handle.net/11422/80 2026-05-06T21:51:35Z 2026-05-06T21:51:35Z Braga, Adriana Gusmão http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29101 2026-04-25T03:00:12Z 2026-01-23T00:00:00Z

Title: O Nordeste e a tríade descoberta, laboratório e planejamento : o papel da intelectualidade Author(s)/Inventor(s): Braga, Adriana Gusmão Advisor: Fridman, Fania Abstract: Since its occupation in the 16th century, the territory corresponding to the Northeast has been a pioneering area in the implementation of actions overseen by the various forms of State through which it passed. This research discusses the process of northeastern development under a triad: discovery, laboratory, and planning — grounded in the thought, socioeconomic analyses, and public policy proposals of a northeastern intelligentsia active on the national and international stage throughout the 20th century. The mission of thinking Brazil and the Northeast fell to northeasterners forged by the social sciences since the Regionalist movement and by the state technostructure in the context of the origins of developmentalism. Northeastern intellectuals transformed their territory into an object of study by addressing regional specificities and inter-regional and intra-regional relations, drawing on a broader vision of the challenges to be overcome and viable solutions. The region took shape as an experimental laboratory from the very establishment of its main economic activity — the sugarcane agroindustry — which incorporated the latifundium as a foundational condition for its operation. The Northeast became a laboratory by inaugurating welfare measures to mitigate the effects of droughts, initiatives to harness hydroelectric potential for energy generation, and, ultimately, regional planning for the implementation of developmentalism in the northeastern region. The regional legacy of economic development established through historical evolution worsened over time, driving the expansion of regional inequalities and extreme underdevelopment within an already underdeveloped country. The interests at stake in the Regional Question cut across the northeastern agrarian oligarchies, the bourgeoisie of the Northeast and the Center-South immersed in their profits and allied with a political class that reproduced the interests of the dominant classes — alongside a State that, in order to maintain its sovereignty, needed to strike a political pact with those classes. There was no effective political effort toward transforming the northeastern socioeconomic structure that had been consolidated by the late 1950s, when a confluence of sociopolitical factors emerged that could threaten national sovereignty and developmentalism. In this context, northeastern intellectuals became protagonists in the formulation of effective public policies aimed at transforming regional reality through a shift in the paradigm that had stigmatized the Northeast and its population over the course of four centuries. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação

2026-01-23T00:00:00Z Araújo, Mariana Pacheco de http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29069 2026-04-17T06:10:41Z 2025-12-15T00:00:00Z

Title: Estados, modelos urbanos e a dualidade social brasileira: rumos do desenvolvimento urbano da cidade do Rio de Janeiro Author(s)/Inventor(s): Araújo, Mariana Pacheco de Advisor: Silva Junior, Luís Régis Coli Abstract: This dissertation seeks to discuss how the adoption of urban models, utilized as a State strategy to deal with the crisis of capital accumulation, shapes urban space and exacerbates the process of precariousness in capitalist cities. The efforts of this work focus on understanding the current moment of capitalist society after reching its internal logical limit of accumulation and on analysing the city of Rio de Janeiro, its urban evolution to the present day, demonstrating Brazilian social formation and the modernization project in pursuit of the country’s full development. Considering that the city’s urbanization process is tied to the formation of a typically Brazilian peripheral sociability, the civilizing project imposed by capitalist modernity inherently produces socio-spacial inequality. We examine, in particular, the dissemination of the urban model of Urban Strategic Planning and the impact that multilateral agencies, ideologically aligned with global capitalist hegemony, have on the production of urban space in peripheral countries. As a result of the readjustment of the role of the modern State by the advance of neoliberalism, the adoption of this liberal model as a substitute for the modernist model has become a requirement to ensure the urban (mainly economic) development of a country – while prioritizing the local scale, that is, the city management, now inserted in the competitive global market of cities. The intensification of the process of generalization of the periphery in the world, associated with the process of dissolution of social ties can be seen in the case of the Porto Maravilha Project, located in the port area of the city of Rio de Janeiro. A product of the city’s Strategic Plan, this specific intervention project acts in accordance with the process of urban fragmentation and the polarization of precariousness and prosperity, which we understand as Brazilian social duality. Thus, urban development proposals in cities such as Rio de Janeiro only reaffirm the logical of capital, whose inherent contradiction produces increasingly socially unequal and spatially segregated spaces. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação

2025-12-15T00:00:00Z Morais, Karine Tavares http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29025 2026-04-07T03:00:14Z 2025-08-19T00:00:00Z

Title: Três décadas de atraso na gestão de resíduos sólidos : conflitos socioambientais e mediação de interesses na construção da política nacional de resíduos sólidos (1989-2024) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Morais, Karine Tavares Advisor: Quintslr, Suya Abstract: This research seeks to analyze the construction of the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS) based on the study of legitimization, processing, elaboration, approval and execution of law 12.305/10 and its decrees after 19 years of socio-environmental conflicts in the Brazilian National Congress. The objective is to identify the relationship between the characteristics that formed the PNRS based on the sociopolitical determinants and economic interests that have been present in two decades of legislative resolutions to date. For this purpose, we recomposed the history of the PNRS processing in the Federal Congress with the support of field research with the mapped actors. The aim was to understand how a law goes through a long period of time for approval without resulting in satisfactory regulations regarding better management of Brazilian solid waste. Next, we examine whether the sectors responsible for the legal determination known as shared responsibility are responding to legal determinations given the importance of a law that will soon complete 15 years of its approval. In view of this, the aim is to identify and characterize the socio environmental conflicts embedded in the legal obligation of the PNRS, in view of the economic interests of the industrial sector and, notably, how such conflicts streamline or hinder decision – making between the Public Power and business representation entities. Finally, we delve into the factors that the policy to be approved in 2010 would be immersed in and how the years of processing the law shaped these aspects, namely: the regional issue, planar issues, the organizational field of solid waste in the country and the on going dispute over incineration. The investigation is based on documentary and field research, through which it was possible to investigate the processes of legitimizing the waste problem as a socio-environmental problem, and the preparation and approval of the PNRS, understanding how some of the environmental conflicts surrounding waste management determined the final wording of the policy. Likewise, generators or representative sectors resist the responsibility of bearing the burden of Reverse Logistics without compensation from the public sector. The central role og the Ministry of the Environment can be seen in mediating between economic agents and institutions representing the segments involved with the effective implementation of the main guidelines of 12.305/10, decrees, related standards and their updates. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese

2025-08-19T00:00:00Z Alves, Jéssica de Fátima Rossone http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28987 2026-04-01T03:00:12Z 2026-03-12T00:00:00Z

Title: Malha Regional Sudeste e Barra do Piraí : a gestão privatizante da ferrovia e a sujeição do território Author(s)/Inventor(s): Alves, Jéssica de Fátima Rossone Advisor: Werner, Deborah Abstract: In light of the Critique of Political Economy, this research addresses Brazilian railways by understanding them as autonomous fixed capital, highlighting the relationship between railway infrastructure management and capital accumulation and its unfolding in the territory. It investigates the implications of transport production on these railways in the twenty-first century and indicates the role of logistics as a science that organizes railway operations in Brazil and the territories along their infrastructure within an unsustainable model of socio-political-territorial development. The study examines, debates, and questions the privatizing management of the Southeast Regional Network (Malha Regional Sudeste), which corresponds to the first 30 years of concession of this infrastructure (1996–2026), focusing on the process of early concession renewal authorized in 2022, whose related investments have 2026 as their deadline. Based on literature review and multiple research approaches—including documentary research, in loco observation, action research, and participant observation—it investigates how public authorities have restricted their role in relation to railway infrastructure and its territories of influence. The research also questions the hegemonic principles shaping socio-spatial configurations in these territories, disputing the railway as a potentially emancipatory infrastructure. The case of Barra do Piraí (Rio de Janeiro), a key railway junction, illustrates the local impacts of this management model, revealing conflicts arising from the territorial control exercised along the railway line. The findings indicate that infrastructure management has produced conditions of deregulation that intensify with the concession renewal process, reflecting broader dynamics of financialization and the regionalization of infrastructure investments aimed at attracting private capital. In this context, the management model conditions territorial governance and contributes to the subordination of the local scale to the global one. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese

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