A constituição espacial do Arco Minero del Orinoco a partir da interação entre dinâmicas locais e globais no território venezuelano

Abstract

Similar to several cases of extractivism in Latin America the space of Arco Minero del Orinoco (AMO) reveals an overlap of transnational components to local ones, creating new spatial dynamics that are not limited only to the notions of national territory and that relativize the nationally centered ideas of authority and rights. That is, that in face of the processes of globalized capitalism and the global dynamics of governance, new spatial constitutions and normative arrangements emerge eminently. The AMO reveals several political, psychological and social processes related to space, starting from the understanding of the territory linked to the national, but which intensify in new configurations of the same, as well as considering a complexity of actors these processes ranging from state figures - that integrate and respond to the reorganizations of the international and domestic order - to local resistances - that disapprove new spatial constitutions resulting from the pressures exerted by global structures and flows or even from the movement of the State's own authority. Given this, it is pertinent to analyze the constitution of AMO as a transnational space based on the operation of foreign corporations in its territory, a movement driven by diversified dynamics of capitalism on a global scale. In addition, the problematization of the domestic-international dichotomy makes it possible to investigate and formulate other and new analytical frameworks, which capture the multiple unexplored and particular forms of production of social space. When investigating the procedures of this case based on the review of the literature dealing with the issue, the research becomes relevant because the discussion of space and territory in IR is increasingly necessary, allowing to avoid theoretical gaps and to capture the complex reality of the international order through the incorporation of new empirically evident conceptions