State, development and territorial inequalities
El CLACSO Working Group on State, Development and Territorial Inequalities The aim is to reflect on how public policies implemented in Latin American states operate in
in the production and reproduction of territorial inequalities, a process influenced by the development model and the characteristics it assumes in the different countries of the region.
These policies currently follow a dual path: on the one hand, there is the path related to local and community development processes, based on the territorial (endogenous) development approach and linked to government commitments to comply with the guidelines of international development cooperation organizations. On the other hand, there is the national development strategy, strongly oriented towards international economic integration, whose main objective is to attract Foreign Direct Investment. These two paths are converging, conditioning, or contradicting each other, giving rise to and/or reinforcing territorial gaps within countries and between countries in the region.
In this regard, the various centers that make up the Working Group will collaborate on research projects that, from diverse disciplinary approaches and theoretical-methodological perspectives, and addressing the specific realities of each country or region, will contribute to questioning public development policy and its consequences for territorial inequalities. The results will be shared with social actors and policymakers.
General objectives: Understanding how public development policies operate in the production or reproduction of territorial inequalities
Specific objectives:
- To characterize and analyze the development model that has been configured in the region (with its divergences by country) in the context of neoliberal globalization.
- Identify and analyze the role that states adopt under the development model that has been configured in the context of neoliberal globalization.
- Understanding the type and characteristics of the relationships between the State, development, and territorial inequalities.
- To elucidate the functionality of development policies in the production of territorial conditions for capitalist expansion in a context of neoliberal globalization.
coordinate
Jorge Leal
Department of Social Sciences
Northern Coastal Regional University Center
University of the Republic
Uruguay
María Fernanda Sañudo
PENSAR Institute for Social and Cultural Studies
– Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Colombia
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