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Territórios E Territorialidades: Teorias, Processos E Conflitos TERRITÓRIOS E TERRITORIALIDADES: TEORIAS, PROCESSOS E CONFLITOS MARCOS AURELIO SAQUET ELISEU SAVÉRIO SPOSITO (ORGANIZADORES) TERRITÓRIOS E TERRITORIALIDADES: TEORIAS, PROCESSOS E CONFLITOS 1ª. edição Editora Expressão Popular São Paulo – 2009 Copyright © 2009 Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Campus de Presidente Prudente – SP Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia Revisão gramatical: Profa. Sueli Baleeiro Revisão final: Profs. Marcos Saquet e Eliseu Sposito Capa: Marcos Cartum Diagramação: Maria Rosa Juliani Impressão: Cromosete Tiragem: 1.000 exemplares A coleção Geografia em Movimento tem Conselho Editorial indicado pela coordenação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – FCT da Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, campus de Presidente Prudente. Por essa razão, suas publicações podem se diferenciar da linha editorial da Editora Expressão Popular. Conselho Editorial: Bernardo Mançano Fernandes (presidente) Eliseu Savério Spósito Flávia Akemi Ikuta João Lima Sant’Anna Neto Todos os direitos reservados. Nenhuma parte deste livro pode ser utilizada ou reproduzida sem a autorização da editora. Dados Internacionais de Catalogação-na-Publicação (CIP) Territórios e territorialidades: teorias, processos e conflitos / T327 Marcos Aurelio Saquet, Eliseu Savério Sposito (organizadores) --1.ed.-- São Paulo : Expressão Popular : UNESP. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, 2008. 368 p. : tabs.-- (Geografia em Movimento) Vários autores. Indexado em GeoDados - http://www.geodados.uem.br ISBN 978-85-7743-XXX-X 1. Território. 2. Territorialidade. 3. Geografia. I.Saquet, Marcos Aurelio, org. II. Sposito, Eliseu Savério, org. III. Título. IV. Série. CDD 910 910.133 Eliane M. S. Jovanovich CRB 9/1250 1ª edição: janeiro de 2009 EDITORA EXPRESSÃO POPULAR Programa de PÓS-GraduaÇão em Geografia Rua Abolição, 197 – Bela Vista Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – FCT CEP 01319-010 – São Paulo – SP Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP Fone/Fax: (11) 3112-0941 Rua Roberto Simonsen, 305 www.expressaopopular.com.br CEP 19060-900 – Presidente Prudente – SP [email protected] Fone/Fax (18) 3229-5352 / 3223-4519 www.fct.unesp.br SUMÁRIO Prefácio Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito 7 Apresentação 11 A produção das estruturas territoriais e sua representação Claude Raffestin 17 A heurística de Jean Gottmann: um dispositivo psicossomático Luca Muscarà 37 “Território” da divergência (e da confusão): em torno das imprecisas fronteiras de um conceito fundamental Marcelo Lopes Souza 57 Por uma abordagem territorial Marcos Aurelio Saquet 73 Dilema de conceitos: espaço-território e contenção territorial Rogério Haesbaert 95 As Cidades Invisíveis de Ítalo Calvino. Uma lição de geografia Massimo Quaini 121 Territórios – faxinais – espaços. A problemática “espaço/território” na formação social brasileira Cicilian Luiza Löwen Sahr Wolf-Dietrich Sahr 143 Diáspora: viver entre-territórios. E entre-culturas? Maria Geralda de Almeida 175 Sobre a tipologia de territórios Bernardo Mançano Fernandes 197 Território, espaço de identidade Rosa Maria Vieira Medeiros 217 Entre o Japão e o Brasil: a territorialidade dos migrantes, isseis e dekasseguis Denise Cristina Bomtempo Eliseu Savério Sposito 229 O desenvolvimento local: contextos nacionais em confronto Egidio Dansero Paolo Giaccaria Francesca Governa 249 Conflitos territoriais na estratégia de preservação da natureza Álvaro Luiz Heidrich 271 As dimensões da governança territorial: delineamento preliminar de aspectos teóricos e morfológicos Lucas Labigalini Fuini Élson Luciano Silva Pires 291 Experiências geográficas em torno de uma abordagem territorial Luciano Zanetti Pessôa Candiotto Roselí Alves dos Santos 315 O território e a região: análise de políticas públicas Edson Belo Clemente de Souza 341 Prefácio Do latim, prefácio quer dizer “ação de falar ao princípio de…”. O ver- bo correlato é prefaciar, cujo sentido é o de preambular, prologar, preludiar, proemiar, quando se trata de introduzir uma obra. Quando o foco da obra é discutir o conceito de território, categoria analítica de primeira ordem para a Geografia, a tarefa de “prefaciar”, “de fa- lar ao princípio de…” é, à primeira vista, fácil, porque, afinal, não se trata de um conceito menor ou pouco discutido entre nós. Acrescente-se a este fato, a qualidade dos autores dos textos constitutivos do livro, muitos deles protagonistas do debate mais avançado que há sobre esse conceito, em suas múltiplas desinências: territorialidades, territorializar, reterritorializar, des- territorializar etc. O desafio difícil é, então, fazer desse prefácio um convite à altura do conteúdo do livro, capaz de atrair o leitor a mergulhar nas teorias, nos pro- cessos e na análise dos conflitos subjacentes ao debate nele contido, como seu próprio subtítulo sugere. O conceito de território, que muitos preferem qualificar de categoria, tem rivalizado com o de espaço, no que se refere às escolhas teóricas dos geógrafos, quando se trata de escolher a ferramenta intelectual principal, para entender o mundo em que vivemos. Tem sido, também, objeto de in- teresse de outros cientistas sociais, preocupados em compreender o nosso período, a partir das tendências de circulação das pessoas, das informações e dos bens, que geram mobilidade, fluidez, instabilidade e imponderabilidade que, articuladas entre si, produzem a complexidade que nos cerca. O paradoxal é que o território, a busca da definição de territorialidades concretas ou abstratas, bem como o constante processo de reterritorialização são os contrapontos, aparentemente opostos, mas dialeticamente articula- dos, aos movimentos de todos os tipos, que se ampliam e se acentuam num mundo em que a circulação é imperiosa. Essa pode ser, sem dúvida, uma das razões da retomada da importância deste conceito, na Geografia e em outros campos disciplinares, tanto quanto do aprofundamento da reflexão sobre ele, potencializando e diversificando seu uso, a partir de diferentes perspectivas de método e para diversos obje- tos de pesquisa. 7 Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito No âmbito do conjunto diverso e qualificado de autores que tratam da temática, este livro contém contribuições como as de Claude Raffestin, da Universidade de Genebra, e Massimo Quaini, da Universidade de Gênova, cujas obras anteriores, importantes e conhecidas entre os geógrafos brasilei- ros, animam o debate sobre o território há mais de duas décadas. A partir de perspectivas diferentes, mas não necessariamente opostas, o leitor encontrará, neste livro, os textos de dois autores – Rogério Haesbaert, da Universidade Federal Fluminense, e Marcelo Lopes de Souza, da Uni- versidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – que são, entre os brasileiros, daqueles que vêm dando contribuições singulares para que esse diálogo com alguns consensos e dissensos tenha continuidade e se aprofunde. Marcos Saquet oferece, mais uma vez, sua contribuição ao tema, não apenas ao tomar a iniciativa de reunir esses textos em parceria com Eliseu Savério Sposito, mas também ao apresentar ele próprio seu convite, bem fundamentado, à valorização de uma abordagem territorial. O leitor terá a oportunidade de conhecer ou aprofundar seu diálogo com autores, menos lidos, entre nós brasileiros, mas que apresentam contri- buições igualmente significativas ao debate contido nesta obra, como Luca Muscarà, da Universidade de Molise, Egidio Dansero, Paolo Giaccaria e Francesca Governa, da Universidade de Turim. Os conceitos só podem, entretanto, ser revitalizados, bem como seus conteúdos ampliados ou alterados, se colocados à prova empírica. É preciso que o novo, tal como se apresenta ao pesquisador, inicialmente em sua for- ma aparente, seja visitado, investigado, decomposto e recomposto, de modo a que a síntese explicativa seja algo além da soma das partes. É preciso que a busca da essência desse novo, realize-se a partir de um movimento dialético entre teoria e empiria. Este é o caminho percorrido por vários autores de textos contidos nesse livro que, apoiando-se no conceito de território e de seus correlatos, buscam desvendar fatos, dinâmicas, processos, alianças e conflitos, avanços e recuos do movimento do real, a partir de diferentes recortes analíticos e articula- ções escalares. É o que nos apresentam Álvaro Luiz Heidrich e Rosa Maria Medeiros, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Maria Geralda de Almeida, da Universidade Federal de Goiás; Cicilian Luiza Löwen Sahr, da Universi- dade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, e Wolf-Dietrichi Sahr, da Universidade Fe- 8 Prefácio deral do Paraná; Denise Cristina Bomtempo, Eliseu Savério Sposito e Ber- nardo Mançano Fernandes, da Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de Presidente Prudente; Lucas Labigalini Fuini e Élson Luciano Silva Pires da mesma universidade, Campus de Rio Claro; Luciano Zanetti Pessôa Can- diotto e Roseli Alves dos Santos, da Unioeste, Campus de Francisco Beltrão; e Edson Belo Clemente de Souza, da mesma universidade, Campus de Ma- rechal Cândido Rondon. Pela pluralidade de temas tratados, a partir dos mesmos conceitos, ain- da que considerando bases teóricas diversas, pelas perspectivas, segundo as quais as leituras vão se construindo, compondo um espectro amplo de abor- dagens, pela origem plural de seus autores, seja do ponto de vista das escolas de sua formação, seja no que se refere às instituições a que pertencem, o lei- tor tem, neste livro, excelente material para mergulhar na reflexão sobre as múltiplas dimensões que o território encerra, concordar, discordar,
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