WHERE (NOT)FINDS THE HINTERLAND?

Abstract

Understand why there is the hinterland is to understand that this symbolizes a type determined by external projects whose purpose is to (re)appropriation of the areas classified as such. In fact, the hinterland reflects an ideology geographical established from the following common properties: they are regions of capturing exogenous interests, are made a store of value and, as an adjective are backward compared to other areas. These properties produce representations that relate the hinterland villages as backward, rural, isolated, distant, different, sparsely populated and inhabited by exotic people. In short, defining, delimiting and meaning the hinterland is a strategy geared to outsiders interests related to the volatility of capital/labor in the process of social and territorial division of labor and/or the imposition of an ordering/reordering of geopolitical power.