Uma Crítica Geográfica ao Conceito de Território na PNAS: por um diálogo entre Geografia e Serviço Social

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Lindo, Paula Vanessa de Faria [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Geografia; Serviço social; Geografia humana; Políticas públicas; Territorio nacional; Geography
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136034; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/04-02-2016/000857803.pdf

It is necessary to clarify that the capitalist society reproduces repeatedly the human being precariousness, through workforce exploitation and exclusion, having the socio-spatial inequality as one of its results which is materialized through the violation of the social basic needs. From this point of view, one of the possibilities to draw the attention of different networks so that human dignity can be ensured and respected is the democratic construction of the government responsibility for the social assistance as a State policy. In Brazil, Social Assistance was included in the Federal Constitution of 1988 as one of the pillars of the social security system and subsequently, the struggle for the construction of the Organic Law of Social Assistance (LOAS) was marked in the history of this policy, approved in 1993. After 2003, it is institutionally strengthened with the establishment of the National Policy of Social Assistance (PNAS), approved in 2004, and the implementation of the Basic Operating Standard/ Unified Social Assistance System (NOB / SUAS), in 2005. With the 1988 Constitution and the reform of the State in the 1990s, especially the 2000s policies, the concept of territory as well as the themes that involve it gain meaning and relevance within the Brazilian public policies. The territory, according to the law, becomes the reference unit for the development and combating of poverty. The Brazilian Geography, on the other hand, has already accumulated two decades of dense discussion on this concept. In the wake of the Geography movement renewal, especially in the late twentieth century onwards, the territorial approach acquires theoretical and methodological substance in studies on the role of social relations and power in the space production processes...