As idéias fora do lugar e o lugar fora das idéias: o sub(desenvolvimento) sócio-econômico-espacial no Brasil e as possibilidades contemporâneas do seu planejamento

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to qualify the potential of industrial structures established as local clusters as a possible planned framework socio-spatial-economic development in contemporary Brazil. More specifically, it is an attempt to approach the current debate around industrial policies directed to supporting the development of clusters, emphasizing the need to contemplate the specificities of social, economic and spatial structures of peripheral countries as a fundamental effort for a referential theoretical framework for planning in these countries.In order to develop such an approach, the first step is an epistemological discussion concerning the scientific matrices which informed planning theories in modernity. In this context, the importance of space is focused as a clarifying analytical category for the dynamics of capital, and, therefore, fundamental to planning.Under the perspective of a critical approach, towards mainstream spatial-economic theory, we attempt to reveal the limits of formal schemes based on modeling in what regards its low capacity of explaining specific phenomena to peripheral realities.With the usage of statistical techniques of multivariate analysis, compiling data from Demographic Census, we intend to illustrate the recent evolution of clusters in the state of Minas Gerais, suggesting elements for an assessment of this industrial structure as a source of socio-economic and urban-regional development. Overall, we conclude that in contexts of underdevelopment, local externalities find structural constraints to its realization, which explains in great deal the reduced force of peripheral industrial clusters in the reduction of socio-economic inequalities and regional segmentation.