Professor Carlos Brandão gives a lecture at the closing panel of the VII Sedres
Professor Carlos Brandão, coordinator of the Space and Power Research Group, delivered a lecture at the closing panel of the VII Sedres, held in the auditorium of the Faculty of Education at the State University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis. Titled “Regional Inequalities and Contemporary Challenges,” his talk proposed analytical (re)combinations between current aspects, emphasizing the growing power of the far-right in Brazil, and the structural intellectual and political challenges posed to the regional development agenda in the country.
For Brandão, it is crucial to understand the hegemonic agenda and the chain of decisions materialized in the territory, in a context of multiple and profound crises driven by contemporary capitalism, marked by the union of two decision-making systems, “the market and war.” Within this situational framework, he emphasized the urgency of proposing alternative logics for spatial production, countering the constellation of violences that promote a desensitized society. Accordingly, he concluded that social transformation requires creativity in conducting concrete research in territories, oriented toward fostering the “collective capacity to act” to disrupt this state of affairs.
Watch the full lecture on the Event’s Channel.
