Open AccessMismatches between extended urbanization and everyday socioenvironmental conflicts in Santarém, Pará, Brazil
Author(s) -
Ana Cláudia Duarte Cardoso,
Kamila Diniz Oliveira,
Taynara do Vale Gomes Pinho
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sustentabilidade em debate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.156
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2179-9067
pISSN - 2177-7675
DOI - 10.18472/sustdeb.v11n1.2020.29468
Subject(s) - urbanization , geography , amazon rainforest , overexploitation , metropolitan area , natural resource , economic geography , hierarchy , global south , regional science , environmental planning , political science , economic growth , ecology , economics , archaeology , law , biology
This article discusses how Global North environmental concerns would be applicable to the contemporary Global South urbanization - a zone of overexploitation of natural resources and imposition of homogenizing spatial patterns. The brand-new Metropolitan Region of Santarém (MRS), located in the Brazilian Amazon, is taken as a case study to demonstrate that reeditions of power and social hierarchy result in institutional violence and creation of an extensive urban tissue, where original occupation and spatial structures linked to the production of commodities for export co-exist. MRS demands the understanding of Global North and South connections and also of city and rural linkages to allow the understanding of a new urban that encompasses it all.