Território, política e planejamento: as Transferências Voluntárias da União como estratégia de gestão do território

Abstract

Geographic phenomena can be understood through the analysis of territorial configuration and social relations. As a geographical phenomenon, Union Voluntary Transfers (TVU) contribute to the constitution of the territorial configuration, its scope reaching the national scale, with effects on the various national entities and entities, the projects and resources used materialize in the municipalities, with this, they enable infrastructures in various areas of public interest. The political relationship involved in the process of planning, defining and allocating resources is fundamental to understanding the topic. At the national level, resources are concentrated on the southeast-northeast axis. In Rio Grande do Norte, TVU, in the period from 2008 to 2022, totals 2.6% of all resources allocated by the Union to subnational entities. In the period analyzed, the state of RN brought together objects in the areas of urban infrastructure, health, education, social assistance, water infrastructure, security, technical assistance and culture. In the process related to TVU, the role of standards is fundamental, given the rules for distribution, release and use of resources. The thesis has the general objective of understanding the territorial configuration of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, based on the implications of the objects installed in the territory of Rio Grande do Norte resulting from the Voluntary Transfers of the Union (TVU). For the organization and analysis of the data, we present a geographic categorization, which considers the fixed fixed, circulating fixed and non-fixed categories of the set of TVU objects in the Rio Grande do Norte territory. The results of the research indicate that the Voluntary Transfers of the Union have their origin composed of territorialities and produce new territorialities, altering the logic between materiality and use of the territory since its distribution is not only different, but also selective and unequal, with the Union acting as a municipal agent, in the exercise of a territorial management strategy.