Circuito espacial de produção e o círculo de cooperação do bordado artesanal no município de Timbaúba dos Batistas - RN

Abstract

Handcrafted embroidery arrived in the Seridó region at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, brought by the wives of Portuguese colonists who settled in these lands. Embroidery begins to be developed in Arraial Queiquó, the then municipality of Caicó - RN and after popularization, the activity gradually expands to the other municipalities in the Seridó region, a phenomenon observed in the municipality of Timbaúba dos Batistas - RN created in the 1990s. 1960. In this sense, the choice of the study cut, the municipality of Timbaúba dos Batistas, is due to its performance in the production of artisanal embroidery, the number of embroiderers working in the activity, in addition, it is considered one of the main producers in the Seridó region. . Thus, the objective of the research on screen is to analyze the spatial circuit of the production of artisanal embroidery in Timbaúba dos Batistas - RN, considering the circles of cooperation in space and the uses of the territory. The research continues the discussion on: the productive spatial circuit; the circle of cooperation in space, territory and the use of the territory, main concepts that support the dissertation text. The methodological procedures used involve the collection and systematization of data from the field office research. From the latter, we interviewed 242 autonomous embroiderers and 3 entrepreneurial embroiderers in the territory of Timbaúba dos Batistas and representatives of public and private institutions. Secondary data were collected on the IBGE digital platform and at the Municipal Tax Office. The literature review was based on authors who verticalized their research on the concepts listed above. The proposed methodology was able to understand how the productive space circuit and the circle of cooperation in the artisanal embroidery space in the territory of Timbaúba dos Batistas behave. The specific study of artisanal embroidery in this municipality brings to the debate the importance of associative and cooperative systems for the maintenance of the productive spatial circuit of artisanal embroidery, maintained by autonomous and entrepreneurial embroiderers. The results presented showed that the productive space circuit is dynamic and complex, with the stages of production, distribution, commercialization and consumption analyzed separately, but articulated with each other. This includes the use of the territory of Timbaúba dos Batistas beyond the politically delimited territory. Still, the spatial circuit of artisanal embroidery production demonstrates a codependency of the cooperation circle, which, in turn, is made up of public and private companies and institutions for the development of stages related to circulation, distribution and consumption. In addition, it uses the territory of Timbaúba dos Batistas (the fixed ones) as the cooperative, the association, the Casa das Bordadeiras, ARTESOL and the municipal government and other devices that are not necessarily in the territory, but which provide technical, operational assistance such as SEBRAE, the government of RN, the Riachuelo Institute and the universities to allow the flows linked to the activity of artisanal embroidery to take place in the territory of Timbaúba dos Batistas.