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This article presents a survey of traditional peoples and communities in Santa Catarina state (SC) and identifies the existence of situations of environmental conflicts involving their territories. We analyzed and systematized dispersed data gathered from bibliographic review (theses, dissertations, papers, official and unofficial secondary data, among others) and carried out a critical reflection, based on the perspectives of Political Ecology and Environmental Justice, about their situation in SC. In this sense, the work aims to identify the traditional peoples and communities existing in SC, who they are, where they live, if they face or have faced situations of environmental conflicts. With the study, it was possible to verify that there is a great diversity of actors in SC that can be considered traditional peoples and communities and that, in general, they face situations of socioeconomic vulnerability and experience or have experienced conflicts related to their territories. The existence of territorial environmental conflicts involving traditional peoples and communities seems to be a common and recurring phenomenon in SC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supported on oral history this paper inquiries into the people's life course involved in farming, and in fishing also, since the creation of a protected area in the place where they have livingand have working, at the town of Governador Celso Ramos, Santa Catarina state, in Brazil. During the interviews, other topics came up as it was a narrative of their lives too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand the schooling / (dis) qualification of workers in the countryside and the city, with the arrival of agro-industrial complex in the western region of Santa Catarina, from the formal education of youth and adult, dedicated to training simple and part of the workers. The region has a dependent relationship with large agricultural industries, like Brazil Foods (BRF), Aurora and diplomat Industrial e Comercial Ltda. Using this approach, workers of the countryside and the city, experience a dialectical relationship of (dis) qualifications, opposite the agroindustrial capital. The reported text using the method of dialectical materialism, in which capital and labor are not separate but united dialectically in capitalist production. The study area comprises the town of Xaxim in the west of Santa Catarina, characterized by the presence of an agribusiness of birds, as well as significant trade and services sector, aimed to serve mostly the needs of the agroindustrial capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1980s and 1990s, while the Brazilian economy performed poorly compared to previous decades, the state of Santa Catarina grew above the national average. In the 2000s, with the change of direction of the federal government's economic policy, the country resumed its growth and income distribution, but Santa Catarina economy grew below the national average. Based on the resumption of the growth rate of the Brazilian economy in the early 2000s and the loss of the growth rate of the Santa Catarina's economy in the same period, current research is analyzes which factors contributed to this result. The objective of current paper is to study the performance of the Santa Catarina's economy during the last decade by analyzing the behavior of industrial production, exports, employment and credit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some elements related to the Military History of Santa Catarina, particularly regarding the Fortress of São José da Ponta Grossa, the only fortress of the defensive triangle of north bay located on the Island of Santa Catarina. It presents some aspects of military architecture, daily life of the troops, the episode of the Spanish invasion in 1777, the partial restoration, the current conditions of the fortification, that remains perhaps even more than ever, integrated into its surrounding community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the dynamics of commuting involving Chapecó, city located in western of Santa Catarina state, the aim of investigating the existence of urban agglomeration processes. For this, it uses microdata from IBGE and spatial analysis techniques. The results point to an incipient process, but with increasing trends in the light of changes that are currently occurring in the urban space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]