Dinâmica econômica e reestruturação espacial no baixo Tocantins: implicações socioespaciais da cadeia produtiva do açaí em Igarapé-Miri PA

Abstract

This master's thesis has as main objective to identify which is the new role or meaning of Igarapé-Miri in the region of Baixo Tocantins and the socio-spatial implications resulting from this new meaning. To this end, we seek to show how the socio-spatial formation of Baixo Tocantins and, in particular, the municipality of Igarapé-Miri / PA took place through a periodization, with an emphasis on the occupation of space and the development of economic activities, since its origin , in the 18th century, to the present day. Based on this initial proposal, it is sought throughout the work, to show that this new economic meaning assumed by the municipality in the region, based on the production and commercialization of açaí, has had repercussions regarding its centrality and insertion in the economy at different scales, as well as provoking socio-spatial implications verified in the improvement of the quality of life of the diverse social agents that participate in the productive chain and in the restructuring of the urban space due to the influence of social relations inherent to this new meaning. In order to arrive at the results, we tried to use the theoretical-conceptual review based on authors who used the Marxist dialectical historical materialism to interpret reality for the discussion of geographic space and socio-spatial formation as a path. For other stages, methods based on bibliographic research, field research, interviews, photographic survey and use of software that helped in the production of thematic maps on spatial cutouts referring to the study areas were used.