The dispossession of the APL's textile and clothing industry and the American region: An analysis of local development and governance

Abstract

The present article intends to analyze the historical and territorial constitution of the governance constructed to the textile agglomeration and of confections of Americana, Nova Odessa, Sumaré, Hortolândia and Santa Bárbara d'Oeste. One is about the biggest textile agglomeration of the São Paulo interior and that in recent years she has been marked for a economic crisis generated by internal and external territorial factors. In this context, if it installs the project of Local Productive Arrangements in the e region if it constituted a definite mixing formal governance of the public and private intermunicipalities Consortium of Textile and Clothing Technological Polo. In our analysis we will follow, therefore, a line of textile regional APL governance understanding as a construction of territorialities, in diverse scales, that pass for the economic conceptions, cultural politics and, cover simultaneously in processes of territorialization and desterritorialization of concentrated and/or disconcentrated geographically economic activities.