RESEARCH LINES

State, society and development in the territory - Covers a set of themes related to the understanding of the historical and cultural diversity of the territory, the socio-environmental impacts of development and the management and analysis of public policies, including specific issues such as local power, urban and regional planning and tourism.

Socioeconomic dynamics in the territory - Covers the spatial and sectoral distribution of productive activity, including the emergence of the solidarity economy and leading to the analysis of the contribution of science and technology to development, including specific issues such as local productive arrangements, clustering processes and cooperation networks.

REQUIRED COURSES - PhD PROGRAM AND MASTER'S DEGREE

Theories of regional development - 30 hours/class

Diagnosis of the current situation; theories of economic development; theories of regional development; the debate on regional development in Latin America; the debate on regional development in Brazil.

Organization of space - 30 hours/class

Nature-society relations; concept of space; organization of space; space, territory and region; space and development.

Environment, society and development - 30 hours/class

Emergence and trajectory of the environmental issue; demographic dynamics and pressure on resources; socio-environmental impacts of development in rural and urban areas; sustainability and limits of capitalism; construction of the political and scientific agenda for the environmental issue on a global and local scale.

Socioeconomic dynamics in the territory - 30 hours/class

Development processes; productive transformations and work; science and technology; regional and urban economy; solidarity economy and self-management; eco-socioeconomics; urban planning.

State, society and development in the territory - 30 hours/class

Nature and politics; civil society and territory; historical-cultural diversity and heritage; regional planning; public policies; tourism and territory; globalization and territory.

Research applied to regional development - 30 hours

Different forms of knowledge; science, research and method; theme, problem and analysis model; approach, procedures and data collection techniques; research project; research report; research applied to regional development.

Theories of regional development II - 30 hours

Contemporary debate on the regional issue. Globalization-Worldization: expansion and crisis of international trade, finance and investment flows. Consolidation of metropolises in the globalized space and their patterns of inequality and solidarity. Inter-scalar interactions: environmental, social and urban risks of the global, regional and local.

Environment, society and development II - 30 hours

Contemporary approach; Epistemological issues; Vocations and limitations of geographic space; Ecological and cultural dynamics; Production, use and access to natural resources; Disasters, vulnerabilities and risks; Geoclimatic changes.

Multidimensional aspects of development – ​​30h/week

Political, institutional, ethical and cultural imperatives of development; Interculturality, identity and power; Well-being; well-being and quality of life; Subjective and objective indicators.

ELECTIVE COURSES - PhD PROGRAM AND MASTER'S DEGREE

Research line - Socioeconomic dynamics in the territory

Science, technology and territory - 30 hours/class

The centrality of knowledge in the current stage of capitalism's development; main theoretical-methodological perspectives in CTT; production and transfer of knowledge; innovation and development; ST&I policies; knowledge society and unequal development.

Regional and urban economy - 30 hours/class

Introduction; the socio-spatial division of labor; the urban economy; the regional economy; the socio-spatial dynamics in peripheral capitalism: the Brazilian case; globalization of capital, productive restructuring and their impacts on the territory: empirical evidence, theoretical approaches and political perspectives.

Solidarity economy, self-management and development - 30 hours/class

Crisis of capitalism and emergence of the solidarity economy; cooperation and development; cooperative complexes; solidarity collaboration networks; historical and contemporary experiences; solidarity economy, cooperation and self-management; economic democracy and solidarity development.

Eco-socioeconomics and territory - 30 hours/class

Social and ecological systems; interactions between human groups, productive activities and the physical environment; critique of conventional economics; the notion of eco-socioeconomics; inter-organizational management (networks), extra-organizational management and territory; management versus traditional knowledge.

Urban planning - 30 hours/class

Introduction to urban planning; planning units (e.g. river basins); scale and territories; urban planning instruments; urban planning methodologies and techniques; urban planning theories.

Development processes - 30 hours/class

Development as a political-normative discourse; classical sociological theories on social change; theories of agency in development; subjectivity, action and territoriality.

Productive transformations, work and development - 30 hours/class

Production in general; the system of commodity production; surplus value, the generation of surpluses and their appropriation; accumulation and crisis; work, productive transformations and regional development; regional allocation of work, unionism and territorial development; the recent development of capitalism in Brazil.

Topics of regional development in socioeconomic dynamics in the territory - 30 hours/class

Free syllabus

Inequalities and territory - 30 hours/class

Syllabus: Diversity in nature and diversity of cultures; the (social) division of labor; the "spatial" division of labor; the countryside and the city; tendencies towards differentiation and equalization of space; specifically capitalist uneven development; uneven and combined development; uneven geographic development.

Research line: state, society and development in the territory

Historical-cultural diversity and heritage - 30 hours/class

The anthropological concept of culture; human cultural diversity; theories of culture; the ethnographic method; culture and identity; culture and territory; culture, heritage and development.

Nature and politics - 30 hours/class

Bases and interfaces between environmental sociology, political ecology and environmental ethics; the social construction of nature and environmental problems; political ecology and social movements; environmental values ​​and the moral consideration of nature.

Discipline: globalization and territory - 30 hours/class

Introduction to the issue of “scale”; internationalization, globalization, globalization; the place of national states in the globalized space; the “scales” of global flows; globalization and regional development; globalization/globalization in historical perspective; economic, social, political, cultural and environmental aspects of globalization; criticisms of globalization.

Planning and regional development - 30 hours/class

General introduction to planning; origin and evolution of planning “experiences”; main theoretical approaches to the problem of planning; planning, development and territory.

Public policies and regional development - 30 hours/class

Notion of public policies; State/society relations; State, society and development; formulation and implementation of public policies; theoretical-methodological approaches to public policy research; public policies and regional development.

Civil society and territory - 30 hours/class

Notion of civil society; typology of civil society; main approaches to civil society; civil society and participation; civil society and the issue of territory; citizenship and development.

Tourism and territory - 30 hours/class

Concept of tourism; different analytical perspectives of the tourism phenomenon; nature, society and tourism; tourism and territory; issuing centers and receiving centers; tourism and development.

Topics of regional development in state, society and development in the territory - 30h/a

Free syllabus.

Practices in regional planning and development - 30 hours/class

Development of development plans: Strategic and Participatory Planning; Planning for Development; Institutional Design; Sustainable Territorial Development.