NEXTS TO THINK ABOUT LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE RURAL PLACE - POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

  The objective of the paper is to promote a discussion of theoretical deepening focusing on the current context that understands the links between the theme of development and local development in rural areas. It also seeks to present the potential and challenges inherent to the possibility of local development in the rural area, thought of as a space of singularities and cultural relations produced historically. In contemporary times, rural and city-urban spatialities, thought beyond their differentiation, comprise spaces of complex relationships and different uses, almost always determined by the dominant economic model. The place, in this sense, is not an insect of these determinants and is made and remade by the scalar relation of the place-world without, for that, losing its singularities, marks common to these and that give them form and meaning. It concludes considering that these forms and meanings that materialize in knowledge and practices, historically amalgamated with the cultural and the local identity, can constitute an important subsidy to the process of local development.