The banana agroindustry in the southern coast of Ecuador: a critical view from the corematic perspective.
Abstract
The agro-industrial banana space has been structured within the framework of a matrix of social, economic, political and military power, built under the umbrella of a project global power represented by transnational corporations and which has been interwoven with local power since the beginning of the 20th century. The objective of the research was to analyze and represent these forms and structures of the agrarian metabolism of banana industry, from the perspective of the territory as a complex and dialectical socio-historical unit. The research is framed in the critical geography with the categories social space and territory, constituting these in articulating bridges and of dialogue with other disciplines, allowing to think and analyze the forms and structures of the space of the ecuadorian south coast around the agrobusiness of bananas during the period 1948-2018. To analyze the forms and structures of the spaces configured by the banana market, geo-history was used as a theoretical-methodological tool because it articulates space-time and society, the latter being a spaces builder. The challenge is materialized in spatial models called chorems, which are tools for the representation of the space-time movement, and which allow us to reflect on the geo-historical process of production-consumption in this agroindustry. The sociohistorical chorotypes that were identified through simple chorems (spatial models) are: center-periphery; orbital and hierarchical networks; and global spatial tissue.
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