The municipality creation in the front and the formation of the agribusiness elite: the faces of the brazilian territory use

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to show how the process of
creation of new municipalities in the agricultural front of the
Brazilian territory, in particular in the State of Mato Grosso, relates to the use given to this territory subspace. In addition, this article highlights that the dynamics of creation of municipal internal frontiers in the front is associated with the formation of a new elite, the agribusiness elite. These elite command the technical part of the space production circuit and part of the cooperation circle of production of commodities, using the State, at its different scales, to maintain themselves as elite and to promote the economic activity that dominates the region. This results in the existence of a conformation of the corporate use of the territory which, in addition to meeting the interests of the agribusiness elite, also meets the interests of major corporations.