A formação territorial do município de São Vicente do Seridó - PB : processos históricos, agentes de produção e tendências socioespaciais

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the main socio-spatial transformations of the historicalterritorial reality of the small city of Sa o Vicente do Serido in the micro-region of Serido Oriental, Paraí ba. In order to establish notes on the historical processes (from the old colonial Serido to the present) of spatial agents and their practices in construction, production and their current territorial reproduction in the city (administrative headquarters). Thus, starting with the following question: How were the agents of space production constituted in the socio-spatial formation of the municipality and what spatial practices are currently implemented in the city's territory? Given this, the meaning of the work is more of an effort to contribute to the studies of small cities in the urban-regional dimension and to contribute to the historical-territorial understanding of the local reality. The methodology starts from a qualitative approach, being completed through the type of analytical exploratory research, in a dialectical method perspective as a basis for this apprehension of the transformations in the space-time of form-content and the transformations of agents and their practices. The procedures start from the bibliographical dialogue of Geography and History sources, based on the discussion of small cities in Brazil and their theoretical-methodological counterpoints; the process of territorial interiorization of Paraí ba; the mapping of pre-contact socio-spatial organizations; of the new territorialities with the colonial advance and the territorial division of labor. Thus, going to the local space, checking writings on the divisions of the old sesmarias, or the occupation of the old colonial Serido region, in association and contrast with the production of Local History, and the use of oral sources through semi-structured interviews, combined with systematic studies in the field through analytical observations and the mapping of growth dynamics (geoprocessing). The research results are structured along three axes, from the prior effort to reflect on the gaps in the definition of small cities in the territorial reality of Brazil, with an emphasis on the Northeast region (urban network of Paraí ba); and moving towards the discussion of the process of historical and territorial formation of the municipality, with a view to continuing with the delimitation of its agents in space-time, with their different practices, actions, organizations, transformations and contradictions. Finally, leaving the indications of the expansion trends of the urban network, highlighting the new territorialities, which are part of the socio-spatial reproduction process of the municipality and its main problems.