Ciclos políticos e econômicos de desenvolvimento regional em Roraima

Abstract

Characterized by different goals, different meta-languages and a clear theoretical and methodological pluralism, regional development field has been a branch of scientific studies based on a multidisciplinary approach that analyzes the existing phenomena in the elastic spatial scale identified by the concept of region. Taking for reference the regional development studies this research aims to analyze the exogenous and endogenous regional development patterns in Roraima through a characterization of the economic and political cycles according to the identification of the main structural deep forces in the regional territorial formation in the long term. This dissertation has been designed based on a methodological procedure classified as exploratory, descriptive and explanatory according to the purposes and as quali-quantitative according to the instruments used such as literature review on secondary data sources from scientific and journalistic texts as well as graphing and mapping from primary sources of statistical and documentary nature. The study sought to define theoretical subsidies to the research taking for granted the contributions of the scientific field of Regional Development in the light of a multidisciplinary analysis that qualified the fields of power concentrated on different specializations as well as the different historical periodizations embodied in specific structural cycles of regional development in the territories of Roraima. This thesis provides subsidies for the maturation of regional development studies in the Amazon based on the structural characterization of the main long-term forces that have impacted on the crystallization of four patterns of business cycles and three patterns of political cycles in the territories of Roraima.