Entre práticas e representações: tensões territoriais nos cerrados do centro norte brasileiro a partir do oeste de Bahia

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the practices and representations from the socio-spatial agents acting in the territorialization of cerrado spaces in central northern Brazil, taking the cerrados of Bahia as the scale of analysis. We propose the spatial reading of the cerrados from the voices of their peoples, taking Cerratense practices and representations as counter hegemonic narratives that have been gaining strength by the representativeness of their agendas, especially in cyberspace, through social networks and, therefore, unveiling the " unique truths" that agribusiness tries to impose on Brazil, but especially on the cerrados. With dialectical and phenomenological approaches as pillars in the interpretation and analysis of information, we assume that globalized capital, forged in the economic rationality of the modern-colonial-white-patriarchal production model imposes changes in the rhythms of life, both natural and social to cerrado spaces, generating conflicts of different motivations. These conflicts arise from a process that is not free from resistance, quite the contrary. There are several faces involved in this process, those of the socio-spatial agents of agribusiness and the faces of local resistance in different temporalities. The ways of territorializing the cerrados of the Brazilian north center by hegemonic capital are guided by economic rationality, whose colonial epistemology is central and is in direct conflict with the ways of life of peoples whose epistemologies are biocentric. Thus, the ways of understanding the cerrados can be observed from the spatial representations of their peoples in relation to their living space, from orality, writing and through images that portray the landscapes in their imagination. On the other hand, the socio-spatial agents of agribusiness also build representations about the same space and, from their spatial practices, expand these representations to the Brazilian social group. Based on the basis of the Theory of Representations in conjunction with the spatial reading of territories, places and landscapes, it is possible to understand the spatial practices of agribusiness agents very well articulated with the figure of the State and the support of their narratives, such as the cultural industry, among many means. On the other hand, Cerratense narratives bring the construction of an imaginary about the cerrados as plural spaces and weave, in political articulation, the necessary horizontalities of r-existences and social justice.