scholarly journals Processos socioespaciais de metrópoles de países de industrialização periférica: reflexões sobre a produção do espaço metropolitano de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldo Magela Costa ◽  
Felipe Nunes Coelho Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Space Production

Resumo: Procura-se neste texto refletir sobre processos de produção do espaço metropolitanoem formações sociais periféricas, tendo como referência a expansão recente da metrópolede Belo Horizonte (BH), localizada no estado de Minas Gerais, no Brasil, propondo um resgate de conceitos da chamada economia política da urbanização, atualizando as discussões acerca das condições gerais de produção (CGP). Sintetizam-se, inicialmente, os processos econômicos e socioespaciais responsáveis pela formação da metrópole de BH, identificando-se aquelesmais recentes e associados ao chamado Eixo Norte de expansão metropolitana, caracterizadospor grandes empreendimentos estatais. Em seguida faz-se uma breve revisão do suporte teórico selecionado para a análise urbana/metropolitana, procurando-se transcender os conceitos da economia política da urbanização, utilizando-se para isto a contribuição de Henri Lefebvre sobre a produção do espaço. A atualização deste suporte teórico – especialmente do conceitode CGP – no contexto atual é realizada na terceira seção. Por fim, procura-se sintetizar as reflexões teóricas, indicando a necessidade de se considerar tanto os pressupostos da economia política da urbanização quanto a sua transcendência para o entendimento de processos recentesde urbanização e metropolização no Brasil e em outros países periféricos.Palavras-chave: América Latina; Belo Horizonte; economia políticada urbanização; empreendedorismo urbano; espaço metropolitano; produção do espaço. Abstract: The article addresses the contemporary production of metropolitanspace in peripheral social formations. Having the recent metropolitan expansion of BeloHorizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, as a basic reference, some concepts ofthe so-called political economy of urbanization are revisited, shedding new light onto the discussions concerning the “general conditions of production” (GCP). At first, the economicand socio-spatial processes behind the formation of the metropolis of BH are summarized,highlighting those which are more recent and related to the so-called Northern Axis ofmetropolitan expansion, which is driven by public investments. Afterwards, the article bringsa brief revision of the theoretical framework selected for the urban/metropolitan analysis, usingHenri Lefebvre’s contributions on the production of space in order to transcend the conceptsof the political economy of urbanization. The third section aims to contribute to an update ofthis theoretical framework – especially regarding the idea of the GCP – to the current context. Finally, these theoretical considerations are condensed, indicating the need to consider both thebasic assumptions of the political economy of urbanization and its transcendence for a properunderstanding of recent urbanization and metropolitanization processes in Brazil.Keywords: Belo Horizonte; Latin America; metropolitan space; space production;urban entrepreneurism; urban political economy.

Imperial Presidency and the Neo-patrimonialization of Disorder in post-Authoritarian Nigeria

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Adeniyi S. Basiru
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Imperial Presidency ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Presidential Democracies ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Public Disorder

The president and the network of offices that are linked to him, in modern presidential democracies, symbolize a neutral state that does not meddle in order-threatening political struggles. It however seems that this liberal ideal is hardly the case in many illiberal democracies. Against this background, this article examines the presidential roots of public disorder in post-military Nigeria. Drawing on documentary data source and deploying neo-patrimonial theory as theoretical framework, it argues that the presidency in Nigeria, given the historical context under which it has emerged as well as the political economy of neo-patrimonialism and prebendalism that has nurtured it, is a central participant in the whole architecture of public disorder. The paper recommends, among others, the fundamental restructuring of the Nigerian neo-colonial state and the political economy that undergird it.Keywords: Imperial Presidency; Neo-patrimonialism; Disorder; Authoritarianism; Nigeria.

scholarly journals Gênero e identidade no futebol

FuLiA / UFMG ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Gustavo Cerqueira Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
America Latina

Apresentação do v. 2, n. 1, jan.-abr., 2017. O tema da seção Dossiê desta edição da revista FuLiA / UFMG é A performatividade do futebol na cultura: identidade e gênero, que propõe uma reflexão diversificada acerca da performance futebolística fora das quatro linhas em diálogo com o campo da linguagem e das ciências humanas.Os artigos que compõem o dossiê resultaram do II Simpósio Internacional sobre Futebol, Linguagem, Artes, Cultura e Lazer, organizado pelo Grupo de Estudos sobre Futebol e Torcidas (GEFuT) e pelo Núcleo de Estudos sobre Futebol, Linguagem e Artes (FULIA), ambos da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, realizado entre os dias 08 e 10 de setembro de 2016, em Belo Horizonte, na Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional (EEFFTO) da UFMG e no Museu do Mineirão.O dossiê aqui apresentado foi motivado pela temática predominante dos artigos selecionados para publicação, que abordaram predominantemente questões relacionadas ao gênero e à identidade.Contamos com artigos provenientes das áreas de Letras, Antropologia, Comunicação, História e Ciências Sociais, submetidos por pesquisadores brasileiros e argentinos, o que demonstra a importância da revista para promoção do intercâmbio das produções acerca dos estudos futebolísticos na América Latina.

The Political Economy of Gutswirtschaft: A Comparative Analysis of East Elbian Germany, Egypt, and Chile

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Richards
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Chile

In many otherwise diverse societies, owners of large agricultural estates have paid their year-round workers with the use of a piece of land on which to produce their own subsistence crops. In a “preliminary report” Magnus Morner cited some eleven examples of this system in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Although Mörner mentions different influences, he does not advance an argument to explain these systems. This essay seeks to contribute to our understanding of the political economy of these “labor rent” or “estate labor” systems. The paper is exploratory: previous approaches are considered, a theoretical framework is proposed, and some tentative hypotheses are presented. My evidence comes from three examples: the Insten system of East Elbian Germany from ca. 1750 to ca. 1860; the ‘izbah system of the Egyptian Delta from ca. 1850 to ca. 1940; and the pre-1930 inquilinaje system of Central Chile.

Critiques of the Shrinking Cities Literature from an Urban Political Economy Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-439
Author(s):  
Lisa Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Shrinking Cities ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Shrinking City

This article outlines the political economy critiques of the shrinking cities literature by answering the following: (1) how does the “shrinking cities” canon define a categorically distinct set of geographies with unique challenges and what solutions are proposed? and (2) how has the urban political economy literature engaged with and critiqued these ways of framing problems and solutions? This analysis finds that the “the shrinking city” is loosely defined and that debates exist around their exceptionalism. Urban political economy scholarship debates whether the solutions provided through shrinking cities literature are innovative alternatives to growth-oriented development or manifestations of austerity urbanism.

The Political Economy of Administrative Burdens: A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing the Organizational Origins of Administrative Burdens

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Formal Procedures

Most research on administrative burdens focuses on measuring their impact on citizens’ access to services and benefits. This article fills a theoretical gap and provides a framework for understanding the organizational origins of administrative burden. Based on an extensive literature review, the explanations are organized according to their level of intentionality (deliberate hidden politics or unintended consequences) and their level of formality (designed into formal procedures or caused by informal organizational practices). The analysis suggests that administrative burdens are often firmly rooted in a political economy of deeply engrained structures and behavioral patterns in public administration.

scholarly journals Da sensação de elasticidade quando se marcha sobre cadáveres

Em Tese ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 356
Author(s):  
Marc Davi
Keyword(s):  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
America Latina ◽  
De Medicina ◽  
A Performance

Natural de Formiga, Minas Gerais. Marc Davi vive e trabalha em Belo Horizonte. Dedica-se ao desenvolvimento de trabalhos que transitam entra as linguagens, com ênfase em performance, escultura e instalação. Com formação em Artes Plásticas – bacharelado em Artes Plásticas na Escola Guignard (UEMG) – e outras áreas do saber – estudou medicina na Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG e bacharelado (incompleto) em Design Gráfico (UEMG). Estudou canto popular na Babaya Casa de Canto (2005-2009) e canto lírico (2009-2019) com Marilene Gangana, Neyde Ziviani e Sergio Anders. Desenvolve atualmente sua pesquisa em artes visuais no atelier ESPAI, em Belo Horizonte. Participou do grupo do Háptico de Sonia Laboriau, na escola Guignard, em 2007-2008 e do grupo de estudos e orientação de projetos com Solange Pessoa, em 2008. Fundador da plataforma Glory Hole, dedicada a experimentações de linguagens, sem categoria nem classificação. Em 2008 realiza a performance “Triângulo das delícias” no Instituto Inhotim. Em 2010 participa do filme “petit a” de Dora Longo Bahia, dentro do projeto Destricted.br e no mesmo ano recebe o convite de Marco Paulo Rolla para participar de suas performances, durante uma semana consecutiva de performances, na mostra dos terreiros da 29ª Bienal de São Paulo. Participou da residência artística CA-BRA (Centro América – BRAsil), em 2011, com jovens artistas de toda a América Latina. Em 2013 realiza sua primeira performance no Museu de Arte da Pampulha, na mostra Outra Presença. Com a mostra “Da morte e do amor – proposições de um aniquilamento do outro” inaugura a galeria Periscopio Arte Contemporânea em 2015. Deixa a galeria em 2017 e retoma sua poética baseada na diluição do corpo, na sublimação do objeto e na revivificação de símbolos decadentes. Foi finalista do Prêmio Pipa em 2020.

Reorienting The Production of Space: Rhythmanalysis, desire, and “The Siege of the Third Precinct”

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442097094
Author(s):  
Alex Farrington
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ideal Method ◽  
The Ideal

Whenever scholars inquire into the relationship between space and power, you can almost invariably find a reference to Henri Lefebvre. However, his initial popularization by David Harvey involved an overemphasis on the political-economic dimensions of his work. This article revisits The Production of Space to show that Lefebvre considered rhythmanalysis – and not a political economy of space – as the ideal method for transforming space and everyday life. Lefebvre argues that a more embodied and intimate knowledge of spatial rhythms can inform the appropriation of space by its everyday inhabitants, in opposition to capital and state power. To demonstrate the radical political potential of rhythmanalysis, I follow my reading of The Production of Space with an examination of “The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis,” a rhythmanalytic account of the recent Minneapolis uprising. This account, which was circulated online to share tactical insights with other protesters, evokes a number of new avenues for rhythmanalytic research.

David Hammons meets Richard Serra downtown

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Anthony Iles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Direct Reading ◽  
Finite Resource ◽  
Richard Serra

This article was originally presented at a seminar organized by Josephine Berry (2020) around the ideas of milieu and geoaesthetics, derived respectively from Michel Foucault (2009) and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1999). In this account of a network of artworks, I will focus on direct reading of a significant conjunction between works by Richard Serra and David Hammons through an understanding of the political economy of New York at an important moment of transition. I develop the understanding of milieu derived from Michel Foucault with Henri Lefebvre’s concepts of the ‘production of space’ (1991) and the ‘reproduction of the relations of production’ (1976), operations by which capitalism survives its crisis of accumulation at a key conjuncture in the 1970s which has direct consequences for the works I discuss. Responding to the initial presentation context for this article, a seminar coordinated by Dr Josephine Berry, geoaesthetics, a concept derived by Berry from ideas of milieu and geoaesthetics, respectively, from Michel Foucault (2009) and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1986) is grasped in the sense of art and aesthetics responding to the earth’s (adopting the same prefix as) geology, geography and geometry (ge) by offering a planetary reading of art or experience of art that is entwined with a consciousness of our planet as a totality, and perhaps galvanized by our increasing awareness of it as a finite resource. Geoaesthetics in this context is thought of as an aesthetics, an attempt to understand the experience of artworks in ways that render accessible the conditions of their making and witnessing in terms that are inseparable from the environments and conditions in which they are made and experienced.

A tale of two statues in Astana: the fuzzy process of nationalistic city making

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrien Fauve
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The People ◽  
Fuzzy Process ◽  
Client Relationships

In the summer of 2009, statues stood leaning in a yard, beyond Independence Square in Astana. The situation was incongruous and constituted an enigma: Why were these monuments left alone in shambles? This paper argues that nationalistic city making is more of a resource for people involved in patron/client relationships and a contingent outcome, rather than a planned strategy. This case study, drawing on evidence gathered through qualitative methods with artists and urban-planners, hence reveals a paradox: in Kazakhstan, there surely is a state incentive to produce nationalistic symbols, but in the absence of a mid-term strategy, city-planners and the people they work with improvise in order to answer local authorities' demands, and use this opportunity to advance their own interests. Hence, the political production of space is considered a fuzzy process, contingent on the agency of multiple subjects, and treated as an outcome of Foucauldian “micro-physics of power.” But even though it is erratic, it still creates the built environment which will be reacted upon by citizens. Finally, this sociopolitical perspective on nationalistic urbanism demonstrates that Astana's scenery is a fuzzy “landscape of power” instituting an erratic Kazakhstani regime, based on the political economy of symbolic goods.

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