O desenvolvimento representa o indivíduo? a história de Montes Claros/MG sob outras perspectivas

Abstract

This study aimed to report, from a bibliographical and documental research, the social and historical construction of the city Montes Claros/MG, drawing a parallel between the issue of the representation of individuals in the political sphere of local dynamics and the growth and development of the city. A brief review was made on the context of the development of the city within the Drought Polygon and fiscal policies to encourage the development. Through regional historiographical interpretations,it was sought to understand a sense of political domination in the history of the city, marked by representations of induced development, deletion of a local socio-economic order and the adoption of hegemonic economists standards as the only form of progress. It was observed that the city had its cultural, social, political and economic fields modified and adjusted to adapt to a Eurocentric hegemony, no longer being a society based on reciprocity relations to be governed by economic relations determined by capital.