Do planejamento ao desenvolvimento regional: notas sobre o conceito de região

Abstract

In a context marked by technical, economic and political ferocity, the return to the study of concepts and categories proposes to enable the individual to reconstruct pillars that contribute to the subject's knowledge of the object, being essential mediations for understanding the world. Thus, this study discusses the concept of region as an explanatory possibility in spatial analysis and its relation in the planning and development process. The methodology of the work is based on a bibliographical research about the dialectical relation present in the following conceptual triad: region, planning and development. To do so, a survey of national and foreign studies was undertaken on the articulation of said concepts and categories within the scope of geographic science. The present analysis, when dialoguing with a wide range of authors, presents interpretations about the organization of regional thinking, as well as its possibilities of understanding its meaning in the space dimension contained therein, going from the development of regional superintendencies to regional development policies of tourism in the country. Faced with the contemporary crisis of the globalization process, which failed to suppress spatial diversity, as well as the search for the strengthening of regional boundaries and blocks of power, we can see the return of the region at the center of the political-economic debates, evoking the resumption of studies on the epistemological basis of the geographic community.