ABSTRACT This paper argues that current discussions in Brazil about national regional development policies should be abandoned for now and attention directed towards the regional development agenda at other scales and through other institutional arrangements. More specifically, it offers an understanding of the apparent ‘impossibility’ of creating a national regional policy. After opting for a critical neo-Gramscian conception of the term ‘governance’, the paper argues that a critical appreciation of the conditions needed to concretize this conception of governance leads to the conclusion that the ‘feasibility’ of governance, which requires the ‘real’ inclusion of underprivileged social forces, may depend on the scale at which governance is pursued and on a ‘dialectical overcoming’ of local power to rescue regional agendas.

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巴西的区域发展政策和减少空间不平等的挑战

摘要本文认为，应暂时放弃目前在巴西有关国家区域发展政策的讨论，而应将注意力集中在其他规模和通过其他体制安排的区域发展议程上。更具体地说，它提供了制定国家区域政策的明显“可能性”的理解。在选择了对“治理”一词的批判性新格拉姆斯主义概念之后，论文认为，对具体化这种治理概念所需条件的批判性理解会得出结论，即治理的“可行性”需要“实际”。弱势社会力量的纳入可能取决于实行治理的规模以及地方权力“有力克服”以拯救区域议程的可能性。