Uruguay and Colombia: development policies and territorialization dynamics
Authors: María Fernanda Sañudo. Jorge Leal. Aída Julieta Quiñones Torres. María Alejandra Andrioli Córdoba
CLACSO Working Group State, development and territorial inequalities
The CLACSO Working Group "State, Development, and Territorial Inequalities" aims to reflect on how public policies implemented in Latin American states operate in the production and reproduction of territorial inequalities, and how this process is influenced by the development model taking shape in the different countries of the region. With this purpose in mind, this book specifically analyzes the role of the state in the organization and/or reorganization of territory according to the logics and dynamics of capital accumulation.
This inquiry is based on the analysis of two cases: Uruguay and Colombia. Regarding the former, the focus is on elucidating the essentially political nature of territorial inequality, inherent to the forms of spatiality generated by the capitalist economy. This spatiality is characterized by the functional centrality of some territories and the functional peripherality of others, which are linked in an interdependent and asymmetrical manner. In this relationship, development policy functions as an element that produces and reproduces this unbalanced configuration. As for the latter case, the study addresses the question: What has been the role of the State in the processes of territorial production during the expansion of transnational mining? This is done through an analysis of the political, regulatory, and administrative reforms implemented in Colombia since the 90s. The focus is on elucidating how these policies have operated in the production of "the land and subsoil as spaces of transnational mining capital." From the Introduction.
Working Groups Collection
ISBN 978-987-722-763-5
CLACSO. Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia. Department of Social Sciences of the Northern Coastal Regional University Center (DCS), Uruguay. University of the Republic, Uruguay. Pensar Institute of Social Studies, Colombia.
Bogotá.
November 2020
