Inovação territorial em contextos produtivos: a experiência da comunidade de Morada Velha na formação de um território produtivo

Abstract

This research deals with the process of formation of productive territories, analyzing the development of the community of Morada Velha, in Santa Brigida (BA), and its role in strengthening new artisanal productive groups. It seeks to understand this context through a case study, a historical-comparative approach, based on the documentary and iconographic collection collected in the field, with information from the period 2000 to 2018. Although the region presents few opportunities and socioeconomic data show low rates of regional development, artisanal production is the main productive activity and source of income, making possible both an economic evolution and the improvement of the quality of life of the population, although still suffering from the lack of infrastructure and public services. The activity also acts as an agent of regional integration that, through the exchange of knowledge, has enabled the continuity of that cultural expression through the family generations and the neighboring regions, as well as strengthened the process of integrating an extractive production with environmental preservation. In the historical line surveyed is the presence of institutional agents from various categories that, through their actions and projects, has acted with the proposal of local development and environmental preservation. With the questioning about the democratic and productive mobilization of a territory, through its cultural assets being a way of social transformation comes the hypothesis that such assets can support local development and strengthen its territoriality, when used autonomously and contextualized, and articulating with the institutional agents present.