Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: IGOR RASEC BATISTA DE AZEVEDO

SPACE CIRCUIT OF TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVE TERRITORIAL SPECIALIZATIONS IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL

Textile Production Space Circuit; Brazilian Northeast; Territory; Space Cooperation Circles; Productive Specializations.

The spatial circuit of textile production expresses capillarity throughout practically the entire national territory. In terms of spatial distribution of the activity, the Concentrated Region stands out, which, as suggested by the nomenclature itself, has the highest technical density and concentration of firms, followed by the Northeast region. In this one, the topology of the textile space circuit presents peculiarities, especially after the remarkable proliferation that occurred, especially in the last two decades - noting, however, that this expansion is not recent and carries marks arising from the shocks faced throughout its historical evolution. -space. Thus, the work on screen analyzes the spatial circuit of textile production in the Brazilian Northeast, from its productive specializations and the contradictions expressed by the corporate use of the territory, in terms of the dimensions of technique, capital and work. In view of the problematization outlined in this report, it is conjectured that this productive spatial circuit, in the established cut, materializes through territorial specializations that are coordinated by a corporate use of an extraverted character, whose control is exercised externally by devices of appropriation of the process of circulation of capital, as well as the alienation of the production process. These capital accumulation devices combine forms and norms, among which stand out, on the one hand, the mechanisms of fiscal and financial benefits/attractions and, on the other hand, expropriation and exploitation of the workforce. For the delimitation of the object and achievement of the specific objectives, the techniques and methodological procedures of bibliographic, documentary and field research were established. The theoretical framework permeates a general discussion about geographic space as a totality and the approach of productive spatial circuits from the point of view of a political economy of the territory in Santos (2008a, 2008b, 2012a, 2012c), Moraes (1984), Marx (2011a) , 2011b), Harvey (2013) and Castillo and Frederico (2010); as well as based on the categories of socio-spatial training and territorial division of labor (SANTOS, 1977b, 2005, 2008e, 2012a; SERENI, 2013; BARRIOS, 2014, GOLDENSTEIN; SEABRA, 2011; RIBEIRO, 2003; SILVEIRA, 2010b) to reflect on the development of the northeastern region (ALBUQUERQUE JÚNIOR, 2011; ANDRADE 1970, 1981a and 1988; ARAÚJO, 2002; OLIVEIRA, 1977). In the historical-spatial contextualization constructed – carried out in accordance with the analysis of Santos and Silveira (2001) on the Brazilian geographic environment – three periods in the evolution of the Northeastern textile activity were identified and discussed: the agrarian roots of the spatial circuit textile production; the gestation of “internal domination”; and the peripheral insertion to the informational technical-scientific environment. Finally, the writing plan is proposed and outlined, conjecturing the further composition of the thesis.