A abordagem regional do desenvolvimento : um estudo do habitus em teses no campo científico do desenvolvimento regional.

Abstract

In this research, we start from the understanding that a regional approach to development corresponds to the habitus that situates studies in the scientific field of Regional Development. This approach may present a more evident disciplinary orientation and/or a theoretical-methodological orientation, given the diversity correlated to the interdisciplinarity of the field. In this way, we have Pierre Bourdieu as a reference in the discussion about habitus and the scientific field. This starting point for research has Regional Development as a scientific field that can contribute a lot with analyses, interpretations, readings, diagnoses, guidelines and actions for the implementation of public policies and also, social transformations. As a research problem, we ask: “How is the habitus constituted in the regional approach to development in theses in the scientific field of Regional Development?”. And our general objective was “To analyze how the habitus is constituted in the regional approach to development in theses in the scientific field of Regional Development”. We used as material for analysis 246 doctoral theses defended from 2005 to 2019 in the Regional Development PPGs of the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), University of Salvador (UNIFACS), Regional University of Blumenau (FURB) and State University of West do Sul. Paraná (UNIOESTE). To do so, initially, we discuss the habitus and the scientific field and bring meanings that we consider relevant about Regional Development. Next, we seek to define the scientific field of Regional Development and analyze the structure and agents, thinking about the social and material conditions present in the construction of theses. In continuity, we explain the method, the research universe and examine general, objective and interpretative characteristics, current in the theses. Finally, from the construction of types where we classify the concepts (of Development, Territory, Region and Regional Development), we try to carry out a content analysis. We conclude that the regional approach to development in the content analysis of the theses, two conceptions of Development as an intentional practice, one of economic growth and the other of social equity, prevailed as types of classification of theses. The first with a quantitative methodology and the second with qualitative methodologies. For the concept of Territory, an understanding as political and legal content, traditional, plus a peripheral condition. The concept of Region understood, notably, as a synonym for territory in an analytical perspective that brings the process of regionalization closer to case studies. And the concept of Regional Development, on the one hand, as a starting point, with an investigative perspective, and on the other, as a point of arrival, with a propositional perspective.