DESAFIOS À CIRCULAÇÃO NA FRONTEIRA ENTRE BRASIL E GUIANA FRANCESA (FRANÇA)

Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva; Stephane Granger; François Michel Le Tourneu

doi:10.4215/rm2019.e18018

CHALLENGES TO CIRCULATION ON THE BORDER BETWEEN BRAZIL AND FRENCH GUIANA (FRANCE)

Authors

Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá (AP), Brasil Author http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4607-8634
Stephane Granger Universidade de Guiana Francesa, Guiana Francesa, França Author http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-5965
François Michel Le Tourneu Centro Nacional de Pesquisa da França Author http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1184-8624

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2019.e18018

Abstract

Brazil and France share a long border across the Oiapoque river, located in the Amazon. This paper tries to evaluate how actions undertaken since the establishment of the international limit, in 1900, have shaped and re-shaped systems of regional circulation and trade in this river basin. Using both a bibliographical review and information derived from fieldwork, we conclude that three major changes have occurred recently: (i) the
previously hegemonic fluvial circulation is now in competition with terrestrial circulation; ii) previously dominant local informal rules have been downplayed in favor of international rules; and iii) a contradiction has appeared in bilateral relations: the official discourse focused on “integration” values an increase of the interface between the two river banks while in practice a decrease in interactions and a tightening of the rules of circulation seems to be happening.

Keywords: Regional Circulation. Brazil. French Guiana (France).

Author Biographies

Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá (AP), Brasil

Professor de Geografia Política na Universidade Federal do Amapá. Coordenador do Observatório das Fronteiras do Platô das Guianas (OBFRON) e do grupo Políticas Territoriais e Desenvolvimento (POTEDES).
Stephane Granger, Universidade de Guiana Francesa, Guiana Francesa, França

Doutor em Geografia. Professor do Liceu Melkior Garre e da Universidade de Guiana Francesa. ampus de Troubiran BP 20792 – 97337 Cayenne
François Michel Le Tourneu, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa da França

Doutor em Geografia. Pesquisador do Centro Nacional de Pesquisa da França, CNRS. UMI 3157 – iGLOBES. CNRS-University of Arizona. 845 N. Park Avenue. Marshall Building, 5th Floor. Tucson, AZ 85719. United States.

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Published

2019-09-03

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Vol. 18 (2019)

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