1. Infrastructure in Brazil: From Marketization to Emancipation.
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Werner, Deborah and Oliveira, Fabio Lucas Pimentel de
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INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *LIBERTY , *COVID-19 pandemic , *INFRASTRUCTURE funds , *ECONOMIC expansion - Abstract
The trajectory of the Brazilian economy reveals that investments in infrastructure have periodically played a leading role in economic growth strategies and cycles. To examine its multiscale particularities, this paper assumes that the provision of infrastructure in Brazil relates to historical-structural changes in the country's economy, which has evolved from the national-developmentalist stage (1930s-1980s) towards neoliberalization, and has since the 1990s been subordinated to financialization. The paper discusses the provision of infrastructure in a peripheral context and analyzes the relationships formed in the infrastructure sector, emphasizing the marketization processes throughout the accumulation dynamics of Brazilian capitalism. It then considers the resurgence of contradictions that have arisen from providing infrastructure and services for collective consumption during during the recent coronavirus pandemic. And lastly, the paper argues for the alternative nature contained within an emancipatory infrastructure, in contrast to the hegemonic pattern that has historically entailed the realization of such investments in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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