A trajetória da SUDENE, suas (re)invenções, na condução do projeto de desenvolvimento regional

Abstract

After the 1929 crisis, with the rising of Keynesian perspective, it’s found a speech in which the State presents itself as one of the main public development policy makers, in Brazil an offshoot of this perspective is materialised with the creation of SUDENE. This one has always presented itself, especially in its rhetoric - as a State institution in charge of coordinating development. The present master’s thesis aimed to analyse the trajectory of SUDENE and its (re)inventions and speeches, in the conduct of the Northeast regional development project. This thesis investigates how the discourses and development projects institutionalised and undertaken by SUDENE differentiate and/or are established to consolidate the capitalist road. Our research was carried out from two timelines, the first one of 1959-1964, which represents the main years of the organisation's operation, in which the developmental proposals, driven in Latin America by CEPAL, in SUDENE are expressed with greater vigor. The second timeline embraces the years of 2007-2013, which characterises the first years of SUDENE’s consolidation and performance after its refounding, in this period the "neo-developmentism" discourse is presented as economic policy and translates a new configuration in the capital reproduction where the consummation of SUDENE meets the neoliberal capitalism demands. The analysis of SUDENE at different stages of capitalism and its imbrications on the development state policy shows that the State uses ideological discourses to enable the capital mobility and accumulation in the ensuring of an unequal and combined development in different geographical scales.