O processo de emancipação política dos municípios do estado do Tocantins e suas implicações territoriais

Abstract

This study analyzes the territorial fragmentation occurred in the state of Tocantins, due to the creation of 60 municipalities, 40 were created through shortcut legal via Constitutional Amendment No. 01/89, and 20 were created by laws sparse. To understand this process, it was necessary to examine the diachronic settlement, and territorial northern Goiás. It aims to understand the process of occupation and appropriation of Tocantins territory, identifying the causes that led to the development of an accelerated process of emancipation territorial throughout the state; analyze the institutional arrangements (requirements of the laws and procedures) used during the creation process municipalities in the 1990s. Therefore, using four methodological strategies: literature review of the geographical production, both regionally and nationally; thorough research in government agencies; open and semi-structured interviews with some individuals who participated directly in the process of emancipation, and systematic reading in papers published on the theme and that have been developed in other units of the Federation. At the end, it was observed that the 60 municipalities were created without observing any of the criteria hitherto prevailing in the Laws, and without any discussion or technical study. Many were created with the aim of strengthening political or financial agents, whether foreign capital, domestic private and public federal interference power.