Banca de DEFESA: WAGNER FERNANDES COSTA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : WAGNER FERNANDES COSTA
DATE: 14/03/2025
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: http://meet.google.com/ktz-zzxd-gfn
TITLE:

TERRITORY AS A RESOURCE AND AS A SHELTER: TOURIST URBANIZATION, CONFLICTS AND TERRITORIAL RESISTANCE IN THE NORTHEAST BRAZILIAN COAST

KEY WORDS:

Conflicts; tourist urbanization; territorial resistance; Brazilian Northeast.

PAGES: 298
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Turismo
SUMMARY:

Interest in coastal areas grows as leisure and tourism practices solidify as sources of socialization and capitalist reproduction. Concurrently, the neoliberal economic order and globalization accelerate the circulation of capital between economic circuits and marginal territories of the global market. The combination of these situations results in the occupation of the Coastal Zone to meet the needs of vacationers, visitors and rentiers, converting these spaces into a resource destined for financial accumulation. The insertion of this market, its agents and its processes, however, triggers conflicts with actors who are not aligned with such activities. At this point, another connotation of the territory becomes evident, positioned as the shelter for unique forms of existence. Within this context, the research aims to investigate the occurrence of territorial conflicts driven by the spatialization of tourism activity in coastal municipalities of the Northeast region, highlighting the resistance processes developed by the affected communities. This is a qualitative investigation, whose data collection involved non-participant observation and interviews in communities in the cities of Maceió, Fortaleza, João Pessoa and Natal, in addition to documents from various sources (theses and dissertations, legal proceedings, government reports, among others). The data indicate a concentration of conflicts in the Northeast region, in which the interest of hegemonic actors in the production of space – the real estate sector and the State – impose processes of deterritorialization on coastal communities. Furthermore, it is observed that the logic of public and private investments in the Northeast coast expresses a relational triad – public incentives, tourism performance and real estate activity – that reinforces the stimulus for tourist urbanization, concentrated in municipalities with better performance in this activity, accentuating the unequal development of places and the valorization of territories located by the sea. Taking four communities as a sample, it is identified that resistance to such deterritorialization processes involves six dimensions, defined by the object-action in which they were operated, namely: political, urban, jurisdictional, environmental, cultural and economic. If, on the one hand, the possibilities and limitations of the measures developed are dialectically related to the creative capacity to circumvent the violence of offensive act, expressing the power dynamics imposed on the territories, on the Other hand, it is evident that the communities that obtain more significant victories in their conflicts are those that densify the articulation between different dimensions. Thus, diversifying and integrating actions between the dimensions becomes the effective strategy of reterritorialization and expresses the nature of what can be called territorial resistance.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ALEXANDRE QUEIROZ PEREIRA - UFC
Interna - 2135640 - CAROLINA TODESCO
Presidente - 1149402 - MARIA APARECIDA PONTES DA FONSECA
Externo à Instituição - RAMON GARCIA MARIN - UMU
Externa à Instituição - RENATA MAYARA MOREIRA DE LIMA - UFAL