Becoming publicthe emancipation process of a company town in the light of critical theory of public administration

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This thesis aims to discuss cities and their emancipatory paths in the light of the Critical Theory of Public Administration (Alvesson & Willmott, 1992; Alvesson, 1996; Box, 2004; Denhardt, 1981; Denhardt & Catlaw, 2015). As far as emancipation is concerned, a two-fold approach is adopted considering its normative character (Calhoun et al., 2007; Deetz, 2009) as well as the political-administrative character within the Brazilian reality. At the core of my research inquiries are the following questions: How is a city created from a private city? How does it become emancipated? How are the public and the publicness constituted? How do the theory of the public sphere (Fraser, 1990; Habermas, 2014) and the idea of the right to the city (Harvey, 2008; Lefebvre, 2001) articulate the concept of emancipation? What does this debate represent for the reality of the Brazilian public administration and its municipalities, besides the emancipatory movements? For the research development, a historical, longitudinal and processual approach (Langley, 1999; Langley et al., 2013) was used, with the adoption of Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1996; van Dijk, 2001; Fairclough & Wodak, 2010) for data analysis. The unique and instrumental case study (Stake, 1998) - the process of becoming public and of emancipation of the company town Telêmaco Borba (linked to the Klabin company) between 1940 and 1980-, was explored from data collection based on public documents (Spink, 2000) and archival analysis (Carneiro & Barros, 2017; Hill, 1993; Rowlinson et al., 2014). As a result of the analysis, a set of discursive strategies for the emancipation of Telêmaco Borba were pointed out: (i) the local newspaper O Tibagi as a text, form and vehicle for the discursive set about the constitution of the city, the public and its publicness and for the establishment of an ambiguous identity between the history of the city and the company, as well as the pseudo-public character of the city of Klabin's urban project as a reproduction of spatial and political segregation among citizens (working and managerial classes); (ii) the urban genesis from Fazenda Monte Alegre to Telêmaco Borba based on a private identity (composed of pseudo-public spaces and discursive contents) and on the expression of the economic development project proposed by the Brazilian government and materialized by the Klabin-Lafer industrial immigrant families; and (iii) the contamination of the public sphere (homogeneous and singular) by the private sphere through spaces and discursive instruments, the incorporation by the company of the city as working city and paper city, and private men as public managers and as citizens (private public men). As a contribution of the research, I discuss the broadening of the meaning of emancipation in the Critical Theory of Public Administration beyond the rational-administrative-economic argument, the emancipatory dimension of publicization in the Critical Theory of Public Administration and the meaning of emancipation for contemporary cities.

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Tipo

Tese

Ano

2020

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/28962

Temas

Planejamento UrbanoDesenvolvimento EconômicoAdministração Pública

Palavras-chave

Company townsCritical theory of public administrationEmancipationPublic sphereRight to the cityCidades empresaDireito à cidadeEmancipaçãoEsfera públicaTeoria crítica da administração públicaAdministração públicaTeoria críticaAnálise do discursoPolítica urbana