THE DISCUSSION ON DEINDUSTRIALIZATION IN BRAZIL: COMPETING APPROACHES AND A LOOK FROM GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

This paper aims to evaluate the constituent elements of the industrialization and deindustrialization processes, besides observing the pertinence of both processes to the transformation context of the latest regime of accumulation in Brazil. To that end, we believe that any discussion on the industrialization and deindustrialization processes must go through their relationship with two specific phenomena of the contemporary reality, namely: 1) the relationship between tertiarization and manufacturing production; and 2) the territorial and productive restructuring materialized in the last decades. Considering the two phenomena for Brazilian industrial reality, the country possibly points to a new combination of spatial, productive, financial and services relations that are able to reveal complex mechanisms of the industrial system organization. Thus, conventional concepts, methodologies and typologies tend not to capture the complexity of the sectoral and spatial transformations of the industry in the contemporaneity, therefore the updating of the interpretation mechanisms is needed.