André FREITAS, University of Brasilia, Brazil
The border between Brazil and Bolivia is located relatively far from the most dynamic economic centers of both countries. Despite this, there are several cities of different sizes and other nuclei that play the role of local articulation between urban systems in both countries. Along the 3,423 km of international border, the longest in both Brazil and Bolivia, both countries have bilateral cooperation initiatives that count on the border nuclei as important landmarks. In view of this context, this paper aims to analyze the relationship between the border cooperation, the network of cities and the Brazilian-Bolivian international border. This analysis is based on the discussion borderlands as a zone of contact between territories (Machado, 2005; Kristoff, 1959) and on the discussion on border cities (Kralich, Benedetti & Salizzi, 2012; Machado, 2005; Moura & Oliveira, 2018). As methodological procedures, a theoretical-conceptual bibliographic review and an empirical-documentary review related to bilateral cooperation initiatives are adopted, in addition to the identification, classification of border nuclei, inserted in a multiscale cartographic analysis. The research points out that, despite the border nuclei being relevant in bilateral cooperation initiatives between Brazil and Bolivia and in the initiatives of the respective central governments, there is still a lack of adherence to the multiplicity of their manifestations and the diversity of the territory, since in general these initiatives are restricted to major cities. In this sense, it is argued that the recognition of the diversity of nuclei of occupation articulated across the international boundary could be an instrument for multi-scale cooperation.
Mots clés : Borderlands|Brazil|Bolivia|occupation nuclei
A103155AF