Estratégias separatististas e ordenamento territorial: a criação de Palmas na consolidação do estado do Tocantins

Abstract

This research analyzes the interventions developed for the territorial and political consolidation of the Tocantins State (Brazil) through the creation and construction of Palmas. The first aim of the thesis set out the deductions made for the process of Goiás territorial redivision to the creation of the Tocantins State. The second objective examined the strategies realized to creation and construction of Palmas. The third objective examined how the Palmas policies of occupation were strategically used by the first government to consolidate the political group led by Siqueira Campos. The most significant initiatives to the separation of northern Goiás began with the urbanization policy of the empty spaces in the region north of the country, established by President Getúlio Vargas in the 1930s with the implementation of the program March to the West. Thus, we analyze the creation of Goiania and Brasilia as references for understanding the consolidation and occupation political of the northern region by urban growth. The construction of these cities and the expansion of mobility and access between the Goiás State and the northern region were analyzed as political objects used by separatist groups in the north of Goiás, to the creation of the Tocantins State, in 1988. The procedures used to structure the sculling of State by the governor of the Tocantins State were analyzed as one of the procedures to justify the construction of a city to be the administrative headquarters of the State. Following, we discuss interventions used by the government to adapt the urban planning and public enterprises to the state political and economic changes underway, and indirect and direct reflection of the territorial capital. With these interventions, the government has made clearer the goals of creating and building Palmas policy setting forth the identity of the town.