Platform for the Promotion of Postgraduate Programs
Master in Development, Agriculture and Society
Post-Graduation Program of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society - Institute of Human and Social Sciences - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro - CPDA/UFRRJ - Brazil
General Information
Director: John Cunha ComerfordDuration: 2 years in the Making
Academic program
The Postgraduate Course in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA) is an interdisciplinary program in Social Sciences aimed at building knowledge on development, institutions and social processes related to the agri-food system and the rural world.
The theoretical and analytical bases of the Program are directed to the studies of social identities, institutions, actors, social and professional movements, and their manifestations in the techno-productive, socio-environmental and political processes. To update the notion of development, in addition to focusing on economic growth strategies, the challenge of addressing issues such as social equity, citizenship, democracy, territoriality and sustainable interaction with nature.
Using analytical categories inherited from the reflection of Social Sciences, the Program seeks to understand the processes of reconfiguration of national autonomies, of dilution of ancient borderlands and of construction of other political, economic and cultural spaces local, macro-regional and global. These processes are seen as carriers of conflicts and new configurations of power that transform rural-city relations; mobilizing national and transnational movements; We promote changes in sciences, techniques and professions, in educational and socialization processes, in economic relations, in culture and in the exercise of politics, redefining public and private spaces, government and non-government.
In a historical perspective, and when compared to its industrial/urban correlates, the notion of rural development is, in modernity, associated with social, economic, political and cultural processes identified as backwardness, as the produtivism of agricultural modernization and with the constitution of agroindustry structures and markets. In no contemporary debate, we have changed its associations with values and new functions linked to nature, to the territory and to the criteria of sustainable development that, among others, define changes in the institutional framework, including agribusiness, beginning to acquire other cultural and political meanings.
To address these diversity of questions, the CPDA develops its academic activities around lines of research.
The theoretical and analytical bases of the Program are directed to the studies of social identities, institutions, actors, social and professional movements, and their manifestations in the techno-productive, socio-environmental and political processes. To update the notion of development, in addition to focusing on economic growth strategies, the challenge of addressing issues such as social equity, citizenship, democracy, territoriality and sustainable interaction with nature.
Using analytical categories inherited from the reflection of Social Sciences, the Program seeks to understand the processes of reconfiguration of national autonomies, of dilution of ancient borderlands and of construction of other political, economic and cultural spaces local, macro-regional and global. These processes are seen as carriers of conflicts and new configurations of power that transform rural-city relations; mobilizing national and transnational movements; We promote changes in sciences, techniques and professions, in educational and socialization processes, in economic relations, in culture and in the exercise of politics, redefining public and private spaces, government and non-government.
In a historical perspective, and when compared to its industrial/urban correlates, the notion of rural development is, in modernity, associated with social, economic, political and cultural processes identified as backwardness, as the produtivism of agricultural modernization and with the constitution of agroindustry structures and markets. In no contemporary debate, we have changed its associations with values and new functions linked to nature, to the territory and to the criteria of sustainable development that, among others, define changes in the institutional framework, including agribusiness, beginning to acquire other cultural and political meanings.
To address these diversity of questions, the CPDA develops its academic activities around lines of research.
