Land ownership in Uruguay: Social training, public policies, territory and pulp industry

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  • Horacio Martin Pisson Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2318-2962.2019v29n59p1106

Abstract

Since 2005, with the arrival of the progressive “Broad front”, Uruguay has been going through a cycle of political-economic stability and governance that has allowed it to maintain a relatively staedy growth rate, in a regional contexto marked by the rush of conservatism and the neoliberal right-wing. During this cycle, advances in individual and labor rights, reduction of poverty and social exclusion, etc., were notable, in line with the consolidation of a productive model based on the large-scale export of primary products and characterized by concentration and anonymity of land ownership. This, in turn, is supported by public policies that establish a regulatory framework that guarantees great advantages to companies (concessions, tax exemptions, etc), thus aiming to attract (foreign) investiments as a form international insertion. The pulp and papper industry, which started in 2007 based on eucalyptus monoculture, is today a fundamental pillar of this model, with the particularity of being an industry run by large transnational companies, which produce under the Free Zones regime and are the largest landowners in the country. With the iminente installation of a third pulp mill, new questions open up regarding land ownership, the form of spatial organization of companies, the relationship between them and the state, and the state’s ability to regulate sovereignly the national territory.

                   

Keywords: Social formation – Public policies – Territoy – Pulp and papper industry

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Author Biography

Horacio Martin Pisson, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Bacharel em Geografia pela UNILA. Mestre em Geografia pela UFSC. Atualmente doutorando em Geografia pela UFSC

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Published

2019-10-24

How to Cite

Pisson, H. M. (2019). Land ownership in Uruguay: Social training, public policies, territory and pulp industry. Caderno De Geografia, 29(59), 1106–1123. https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2318-2962.2019v29n59p1106

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Vol. 29 No. 59 (2019): Outubro a Dezembro de 2019

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ARTIGOS

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