En 2004, la région Poitou-Charentes connait sa première alternance : l'équipe nouvelle affiche son intention de changer la politique régionale et présente « la démocratie participative » comme un choix de méthode d'action publique discriminant. En analysant conjointement les conditions d'importation et de mobilisation des idées et le travail de négociation, de mobilisation et de transaction entre les acteurs engagés à titre divers dans la production de l'action publique, nous mettons en évidence les dimensions idéologique, politique et institutionnelle de la fabrique de l'alternance, entendue comme le processus au cours duquel une équipe nouvellement élue tente de faire reconnaître son offre politique comme discriminante, de convertir l'organisation aux nouveaux objectifs qui lui sont assignés et de renégocier l'identité, les ressources et la valeur des porte-parole du territoire régional, institués par l'équipe précédente ; porte-parole avec lesquels et sur lesquels elle doit agir pour engager une action de transformation de la société locale et assoir sa position dans la compétition politique. En comparant trois dispositifs participatifs ("Budget participatif des lycées", "Jury citoyen d'évaluation de la politique régionale Transport et Mobilité" et "forum participatif sur l'eau"), nous analysons comment l'environnement régional, institué autour des politiques conduites par l'équipe précédente, se décompose et se recompose au cours de la mise en œuvre des procédures participatives qui mobilisent un public élargi de citoyens ordinaires. Ainsi, nous montrons comment ces instruments participatifs sont des vecteurs et des révélateurs d'une redéfinition du style politique et des catégories d'intervention publique régionaux. / In 2004, the Poitou-Charentes French region experienced its first political alternation. The new majority proclaimed its intention to transform local politics and displayed “participatory democracy” as a discriminating choice of public action methods. By analysing concomitantly the conditions of importation and mobilisation of political ideas and the process of negotiation, of mobilisation and of transaction which are taking place between the various actors involved in the production of public action, this works highlights the ideological, political and institutional dimensions of the making of the political alternation. The latter notion defines the process during which a newly-elected majority endeavours to make its political offer acknowledged as discriminating, to convert the institution to the new assigned objectives and to re-negotiate the identity, the resources and the value of the spokespersons of the regional territory. The new majority needs to work with and on these spokespersons, who had been promoted by the former political majority, in order to implement an action of transformation of the local society and assert its local political leadership. By comparing three ‘participatory’ devices ("high schools’ participatory budgets", "citizens' jury evaluating the ‘Transport and Mobility’ regional policy", and "participatory forum" on water issues), this work analyses how the regional framework, established around the policies run by the former political majority, are distorted and recomposed on the occasion of the implementation of these ‘participatory’ processes mobilizing a wide range of ordinary citizens. Thus, we show how these participatory tools are carriers and indicators of a re-definition of regional political style and categories of public intervention.

Cette thèse, qui s’inscrit dans le vaste domaine des politiques publiques de sécurité, a pour objet de montrer la manière dont la sécurité s’est construite, au fil des alternances politiques. Plus précisément, cette étude consiste à montrer en quoi des mouvements politiques qu’idéologies et histoire séparent en arrivent, sur les questions d’ordre et de sécurité, à se rapprocher. La réponse à cette question se décompose en deux temps. Dans un premier temps, on démontre que la sécurité s’est traditionnellement construite, notamment dans les années 1970 et 1980, à partir d’idéologies encourageant divisions et clivages. La gauche et la droite, conformément à leurs principes, ont élaboré des politiques différentes, privilégiant tantôt les libertés individuelles, tantôt l’ordre et la sécurité. Dans un deuxième temps, l’étude s’attache à montrer que l’idéologie s’est progressivement effacée au profit d’un principe de réalité plutôt fédérateur. Au fil des développements, nous défendons l’idée d’un rapprochement entre droite et gauche qui conduit à penser et construire la sécurité selon des modes opératoires plus ou moins équivalents. L’exercice et l’expérience du pouvoir, le travail des experts et les recherches, les évolutions du monde ou tout simplement « l’épreuve de la réalité », véritable moment de vérité, placent les gouvernants de droite comme de gauche aux portes d'un consensus. Ces convergences permettront, espérons-le, de rassembler les énergies pour anticiper et mieux appréhender la criminalité de demain. / This dissertation, which is part of the broad field of public security policies, strives to show how security has been built over the political pendulum. More specifically, the purpose of this study is to show how the political movements, separated by ideologies and history, are getting closer on questions of order and security. The answer to this question breaks down in two stages. Firstly, we demonstrate that the security has traditionally been built, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, from ideologies promoting divisions and cleavages. The left and the right, in accordance with their principles, often developed different policies, sometimes favoring individual liberty, sometimes law and order. In a second step, the study strives to show that ideology has gradually cleared in favor of the unifying principle of reality instead. Throughout the developments, we advocate the idea of a merger between the right and the left which leads to envision and construct security in a more or less similar way. The exercise of power and experience it brings, the work of experts and researchers, changes in the world, or merely "the challenge of reality", the real moment of truth, put the rulers of both right and left on the outskirts of a consensus. This convergence will, hopefully, bring together the energies to better understand and anticipate tomorrow’s criminality.

"Si le paysage s'est inséré dans l'action politique à toute les échelles, les effets de cette action devraient se faire sentir sur les paysages eux-mêmes. Il faut y voir de plus près." Cet objectif du programme de recherche "politiques publiques et paysages", lancé en 1998 par le Ministère de l'Aménagement, du Territoire et de l'Environnement, invite la communauté scientifique à investir le champ croisé de l'évaluation des paysages et des politiques publiques.Cette recherche doctorale apporte une nouvelle contribution à ce sujet, en reprenant les avancées acquises et les questions demeurées en suspens, et propose une mise en œuvre de l'évaluation par la production d'indicateurs du paysage, normés et comparables. La démarche suivie passe par la mise en place de mesures du paysage dans sa dimension visible, pour livrer aux acteurs publics de deux terrains d'étude franc-comtois une base de connaissance objectivée sur leur paysage. Ces mesures sont obtenues par des méthodes de modélisation de la visibilité, telles qu'elles sont proposées par les SIG, dans la ligne des travaux conduits par le laboratoire ThéMA pour l'approche quantitative et systématique du paysage visible (appliqués, par exemple, à l'étude du prix du paysage au cours de ces dernières années). Elles sont aussi développées de façon plus originale, en mobilisant des ressources en information géographique anciennes et actuelles disponibles pour les collectivités territoriales, avec leurs problèmes particuliers de mise en œuvre. Cette connaissance autorise alors une mise en regard du paysage et des enjeux soulevés par les politiques publiques, pour contribuer à leur évaluation mutuelle. / « If landscape is now part of public action at all scale levels, the effects of this action should be revealed in the landscape itself. We have to look further ». This main goal of the « public policies and landscape » research program, initiated in 1998 by the French ministry of environment, encourages the scientific community to invest both the landscape assessment and public policies research fields.This research aims at bringing a new contribution to this subject, taking into account recent advances and remaining questions. An assessment tool based on standardized and comparable landscape indices is proposed. This approach is based on measures performed on the visible part of the landscape, to deliver a quantitative knowledge to public stakeholders of two study fields in Franche-Comté (France). These measures are obtained through viewshed modelling, commonly implemented in GIS. They're also the result of original coding development using both old and recent geographic resources. This implementation task involved specific methodological issues. Thus, this knowledge allows us to confront landscape and stakes raised by public policies, in order to contribute to their mutual assessment.

Partant de la sociologie d'innovation, des organisations et d'attentes et en se basant sur une démarche empirique d'enquête (plus de 30 entretiens conduits durant 2010-2013 en France), la première partie de cette thèse traite de la variété des acteurs de l'électromobilité et de l'abondance combinatoire des possibilités relationnelles. Elle procède à une analyse historique, théorique et systémique, afin de recenser et établir une typologie des acteurs potentiellement concernés par son développement, d'évaluer leur position stratégique et leur inclinaison envers l'électromobilité, leurs intérêts et facteurs de résistance potentiels. Enfin, le croisement du caractère offensif ou défensif de la stratégie propre à chaque acteur avec le degré variable de maturation de celle-ci a permis de préciser les ressorts de l'adhésion au système d'électromobilité et les conditions d'évolution de celui-ci. La thèse met un accent particulier sur la nécessité de maîtriser la zone d'incertitude la plus majeure du système qui est la recharge. Les ambiguïtés et les difficultés d'installation d'équipements de recharge révèlent une certaine réticence de la société. Combler les lacunes, surtout celles particulières à la recharge privée, mérite une attention collective des constructeurs, opérateurs immobiliers et fournisseurs d'équipements de recharge, ainsi qu'une concentration particulière des efforts publics et ce, à tous les niveaux réglementaire, financier et surtout organisationnel. Cela devrait permettre de raccourcir le décalage qui se manifeste aujourd'hui entre la mise sur le marché des véhicules et la disponibilité des infrastructures de recharge, qui pénalise le démarrage du système en constituant un grand blocage psychologique pour ses usagers potentiels. Dans un deuxième temps, est explorée l'électromobilité dans un cadre systémique éclaircissant les relations d'interdépendance entre mobilité et territoire. En effet, chaque territoire définit son système de mobilité en fonction de ses caractéristiques intrinsèques telles que sa géographie, sa composition démographique et socioéconomique et les autorités territoriales jouent un rôle crucial dans sa mise en œuvre et assurent son bon fonctionnement. Ainsi dans le cadre d'une étude de cas, le diagnostic socio-économique du territoire de Paris-Saclay, suivi par l'analyse de son système de mobilité, permettent de dégager l'avenir possible du territoire en matière de transport, au vu de la dynamique générale créée par le projet de Grand Paris Express. Une fois que l'image future du système de mobilité du territoire est dessinée, la place de l'électromobilité dans ce futur système et le degré de réceptivité du territoire de Paris-Saclay est discutée. L'évaluation du potentiel d'équipement en VE en tant que voiture particulière montre que le territoire de Paris-Saclay constitue un terrain favorable : de par l'adaptation du VE à leur comportement d'auto mobilité et par l'accès à la recharge, 37% des ménages motorisés du territoire sont susceptibles de s'équiper d'un VE (contre 20,5% en IDF). Enfin, la France est le pays où toutes les conditions d'émergence de l'électromobilité se réunissent. Son électricité issue du nucléaire permet d'espérer un bilan carbone très promoteur pour le VE. Les deux constructeurs historiques du pays sont parmi les premiers de l'industrie d'automobile à proposer les modèles électriques de la nouvelle génération. Le déploiement massif des infrastructures de recharge divise. L'éventail des suites à donner est large, allant de l'abandon total de l'électromobilité par peur qu'elle devienne un gouffre financier jusqu'au renforcement des mesures de soutien dans l'espérance de favoriser la dynamique créée. Parmi les options, on soutient une politique de territorialisation du déploiement de l'électromobilité à définir sur la base d'une connaissance approfondie du territoire et de son système de mobilité / Over the past few years, socioeconomic and political developments, environmental and energy concerns, and ongoing technological progress nourish the prospect of substituting conventional gasoline cars with upcoming electric alternatives. A real success of the electric vehicle (EV) has become increasingly conceivable but is still subject to a certain number of conditions. Electromobility differs from the currently prevailing form of automobility mainly due to a larger range of the involved stakeholders, and a stronger dependence on the territory where the system is to evolve. These differences motivate the present doctoral research studying the emergence of electromobility in France from two major points of view: the stakeholders' organization and the territory's adaptation. Adopting a historical and empirical approach, the first part of this thesis discusses the results of over 30 interviews conducted with representatives of potential electromobility stakeholders that are likely to have a major influence on the developing electromobility system in France. It deals with the large variety of potential actors and their possible relationships by following a systematic and sociological approach. The applied methodology allows to detail and characterize the actors and to evaluate their likely strategies as well as their inclinations towards electromobility conveyed by various motives of interests and factors of resistance. Analyzing the probable forms of interdependence between the actors in the electromobility system also helps to highlight the lack of some essential links in the current system of actors. The second part of this thesis explores electromobility in a systematic framework in order to shed light on the interdependence between mobility and its territory. Indeed, each territory is endowed with a transportation system of its own on the basis of its diverse intrinsic characteristics. Local authorities have a crucial role to play in the process of deploying the system and of facilitating its functioning. This part of research therefore examines the potential for electromobility development at the local level: the semi-urbanized area of Paris-Saclay located within the Greater Paris area about 20 km southwest from its center serves as study area. The local transportation system's configuration and its dynamics including all relevant projects that will partially or integrally influence the area are discussed. The prospective analysis takes into account a wide range of considerations and potential determinants so as to render the assessment as realistic as possible. The study's findings shed light on the initial phase of the electromobility system's emergence while highlighting the flaws and complexities that hinder its future development. By these means, this research provides decision aid for policymakers and others stakeholders that are potentially involved in the electromobility system's deployment in France

Esta dissertação analisa o processo de construção do Programa de Organização Produtiva de Mulheres Rurais (POPMR), instituído em 2008, apresentando como pano de fundo a construção da agenda de políticas públicas para as mulheres rurais durante o Governo Lula. A pesquisa partiu das seguintes indagações: Como o POPMR foi construído? Por quais atores e a partir de quais olhares e ideias? A partir do uso da abordagem ideacional de políticas públicas, o estudo coloca no centro da análise as interações sociais, a produção de ideias, as crenças e as representações de mundo em torno das mulheres rurais que deram origem ao programa. O modelo de análise francês de fóruns e arenas (FOUILLEUX, 2011) é aqui mobilizado para dar inteligibilidade aos diferentes fóruns (grupos) que participaram da elaboração do programa, colocando luz às suas ideias e interpretações sobre as mulheres rurais. Ao percorrer o caminho das ideias, da sua produção à sua institucionalização, esse modelo permite compreender como elas foram produzidas e selecionadas até a sua institucionalização em instrumentos de políticas públicas. Resultante de pesquisa documental e entrevistas em profundidade o estudo identificou quatro fóruns de produção de ideias na base da formulação do POPMR: eleitoral, científico, de mulheres rurais e agroecológico. Esses fóruns produziram diferentes representações e ideias sobre as mulheres rurais, que uma vez discutidas e negociadas, orientaram a elaboração do programa analisado. A análise desse processo mostra que a criação do POPMR partiu do reconhecimento da importância econômica, social e ambiental das mulheres rurais para o desenvolvimento rural. Seus instrumentos buscam promover a igualdade de gênero a partir da inclusão econômica e produtiva das mulheres rurais, articulando elementos da economia solidária, da agroecologia e da segurança alimentar e nutricional, apresentando um referencial de política pública orientado pelo enfoque feminista / This dissertation analyzes the process of construction of the Program of Productive Organization of Rural Women (POPMR), instituted in 2008, presenting as a background the construction of the public policy agenda for rural women during the Lula\'s government. The research started with the following questions: How was POPMR built? By which actors and from which views and ideas? From the use of the ideational approach of public policies, the study places at the center of the analysis the social interactions, the production of ideas, beliefs and representations of the world around rural women that gave rise to the program. The French analysis model of forums and arenas (FOUILLEUX, 2011) is mobilized here to give intelligibility to the different forums (groups) that participated in the elaboration of the program, shedding light on their ideas and interpretations on rural women. By traversing the path of ideas, from their production to their institutionalization, this model allows them to understand how they are produced and selected until their institutionalization in instruments of public policies. Resulting from documentary research and in-depth interviews the study identified four forums of ideas production on the basis of POPMR\'s formulation: electoral, scientific, rural women and agroecological. These forums produced different representations and ideas about rural women, who once discussed and negotiated, guided the formulation of the program analyzed. The analysis of this process shows that the creation of POPMR started from the recognition of the economic, social and environmental importance of rural women for rural development. Its instruments seek to promote gender equality through the economic and productive inclusion of rural women, articulating elements of solidarity economy, agroecology and food and nutritional security, presenting a reference of public policy guided by the feminist approach

As florestas brasileiras abrigam boa parte da diversidade florística e faunística mundiais e têm papel fundamental na atenuação das mudanças climáticas globais. Apesar disso, estes ecossistemas vêm sendo progressivamente convertidos em algum uso antrópico cujo objetivo, em tese, é promover o desenvolvimento socioeconômico local. Diante disso, avaliou-se, nos anos 2000 e 2010, a efetividade da mudança no uso da terra como promotora do desenvolvimento brasileiro em nível municipal e regional. Primeiro, quantificou-se a influência dos indicadores de desenvolvimento socioeconômico sobre o desflorestamento, com o uso de modelos estatísticos de regressão linear múltipla. Para tanto, utilizaram-se 3.168 observações obtidas em municípios de todas as regiões geográficas brasileiras. Segundo, caracterizou-se esta influência recorrendo à determinação de amostras representativas, mediante análise de técnicas de amostragem aleatória simples e estratificada aleatória, utilizando diferentes intensidades amostrais. Terceiro, mensurou-se o impacto do programa amazonense Bolsa Floresta na redução do desflorestamento e na melhoria dos indicadores de desenvolvimento socioeconômico, aplicando o Emparelhamento por Escore de Propensão e a Diferença nas Diferenças em 579 observações. Os resultados indicaram que o desenvolvimento socioeconômico brasileiro foi efêmero, aumentou a desigualdade de renda e foi fruto do desflorestamento, que pode ser minimizado pela maior eficiência agropecuária. A caracterização da relação entre desflorestamento e desenvolvimento foi estabelecida com 10% dos municípios, selecionados preferencialmente pela amostragem estratificada aleatória. O Bolsa Floresta pode ter ajudado a diminuir o desflorestamento e a melhorar, em poucos anos, os índices educacionais dos municípios participantes do programa. Assim, considerando este modelo de desenvolvimento, de uso intensivo dos recursos naturais com baixo nível tecnológico, necessita-se fortalecer/ampliar as ações governamentais voltadas principalmente à população amazônica e à pesquisa/extensão agropecuária para desenvolver o país sem a perda expressiva das suas florestas nativas. / The Brazilian forests have much of the world\'s floristic and faunal diversity and play a key role in mitigating global climate change. However, these ecosystems have been converted progressively into some anthropic use whose objective, in theory, is to promote local socioeconomic development. Thus, we evaluated, in 2000 and 2010, the effectiveness of land use change in Brazilian development at the municipal and regional levels. First, we quantified the influence of socioeconomic development indicators on deforestation by use of statistical models of multiple linear regression. To do this, we used 3,168 observations obtained in municipalities of all Brazilian geographic regions. Second, we characterize this influence by determining representative samples, via random and stratified sampling and different sample intensities. Third, we measured the impact of Amazonian Program, Bolsa Floresta, in reducing deforestation and improving socioeconomic development indicators, applying the Propensity Score Matching and the Difference in Differences in 579 observations. The results indicated that Brazilian socioeconomic development was ephemeral, increased income inequality and was the consequence of deforestation, which can be minimized by greater agricultural and livestock efficiency. The characterization of the relationship between deforestation and development was done by 10% of the municipalities, preferably selected by stratified sampling. The Bolsa Floresta may have helped to reduce deforestation and to improve, in a few years, the educational indexes of the municipalities attendant by the program. Thus, considering this model of development, intensive use of natural resources and low technological level, it is necessary to strengthen/expand government actions aimed, mainly, at the Amazon population and for agricultural research/extension, which would help to develop the country without the significant loss of their native forests.

Orientador: Débora Cristina Fonseca / Resumo: A pesquisa objetivou compreender a socioeducação na prática do orientador de medida no Centro de Referência Especializado em Assistência Social (CREAS). Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, embasada no Materialismo Histórico e Dialético e Análise de Conteúdo. Para concretização do objetivo proposto, buscou-se refletir sobre os aspectos de proximidade e de distanciamento entre os pressupostos da socioeducação no Sistema Nacional Socioeducativo (SINASE) e as práticas dos orientadores de medida no CREAS. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados foram pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com oito profissionais dos CREAS de cinco municípios do interior do estado de São Paulo, responsáveis pela execução da medida socioeducativa em meio aberto. Pela análise percebe-se que, conforme indicado na literatura, a lógica da individualização dos problemas sociais, promulgando a herança da doutrina da situação irregular prescrita nas legislações anteriores ao ECA, bem como o discurso assistencialista ainda se faz presente no cotidiano dos serviços. Por conseguinte, parece indicar que apesar dos avanços na lei, no sentido de promoção e garantia de direitos, a socioeducação encontra dificuldade em efetivar-se conforme previsto em lei, consistindo em práticas isoladas, com dificuldade de articulação do trabalho em rede, materializando-se com limitações que se mostram como desafios a serem superados. Entretanto, apesar das limitações estruturais, ev... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The research has, as it’s main to understand the socioeducation in the practice of the measurement guideline in the Reference Center Specialized in Social Assistance (CREAS). It is a qualitative research, based on Historical and Dialectical Materialism and Content Analysis. In order to achieve the proposed objective, we sought to reflect on the aspects of proximity and distance between the socioeducational assumptions in the National Socio-Educational System (SINASE) and the practices of the measure supervisors in CREAS. The methodological procedures applied herein were a bibliographical research, a documentary research and semi- structured interviews held with eigth subjects, CREAS professionals, from five municipalities in the interior of the state of São Paulo, responsible for implementing the socio-educational measure in an open environment. From the analysis it is possible that, as indicated in the literature, the logic of the individualization of social problems, promulgating the inheritance of the Doctrine of the Irregular Situation, prescribed in the legislation prior to the ECA, as well as the assistentialist discourse is still present in daily services. Therefore, it seems to indicate that despite advances in the law, in the sense of promoting and guaranteeing rights, socioeducation finds it difficult to become effective as provided by law, consisting of isolated practices, with difficulty in articulating networking, with limitations that show themselves as challeng... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The right to adequate housing is an unaccomplished human right, and unequal power relations between men and women are also perpetuated when trying to access decent housing even in the most prosperous global cities such as Barcelona. The aim of this research study has been to show how housing is represented and produced by the Barcelona City Council and which are the gendering effects and implications thereof. Through the analysis of the three most relevant political instruments in the field of housing, the “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” method proposed by Carol Bacchi (1999) has allowed to ascertain different problem representations of the same phenomena within the Council, such as “lack of adequate housing” and “vulnerable women”, with important consequences, along with other policy gaps. In our opinion, while feminism is often produced as the engine for change, these inconsistencies prevent women liberating completely from their socially imposed roles and achieving real and effective gender equality.

Orientador: Genaro Alvarenga Fonseca / Banca: Felipe Ziotti Marita / Banca: Silvia Regina Viel / Resumo: O projeto insere-se nos debates sobre as políticas públicas educacionais que contemplam a formação docente, pós Constituição de 1988. Analisa-se o PIBID - Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência, política educacional de âmbito federal que busca agregar valor e qualidade à formação docente por meio da inserção de alunos de cursos de licenciatura na realidade da escola pública. No presente trabalho tem-se como amostra a atuação do Subprojeto PIBID do curso de História da UNESP no Campus de Franca. A pesquisa tem como objetivo mapear as contribuições das ações desenvolvidas pelo PIBID na formação docente dos alunos de graduação em História do campus da Unesp de Franca. Para tanto analisa-se o contexto da criação do PIBID, sua atuação na UNESP e, sobretudo, sua atuação no Subprojeto de História da Unesp de Franca, contextualizada sob análise do Projeto Político Pedagógico pertinente ao curso de História da Instituição. Assim propõe-se discutir a formação docente, e seus desafios e a importância da permanência do PIBID como política pública voltada aos cursos de licenciatura. / Abstract: The project is inserted in the debates about the educational public policies that contemplate the teachers' formation, after the 1988 Constitution. We analyze PIBID - Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência, a federal educational policy that seeks to add value and quality to the teachers' formation by inserting students of licentiate courses in public schools' reality. In this paper we sample the sub-project PIBID's acting in UNESP's History course in Franca Campus. The research has a goal to map the contributions of the actions developed by PIBID in teacher's formation of the graduate students in Franca's UNESP. In order to do so, we analyze the context of PIBID's creation, its actions in UNESP and, above all, its actions on history's subproject of Franca's UNESP, contextualized under the analysis of the Political Pedagogical Project of the institution's History course. Like so, we propose to discuss the teachers' formation and its challenges and the importance of PIBID's permanence as a public policy focused on the licentiate courses. / Mestre

Essa pesquisa objetiva compreender a dinâmica espacial do Sudoeste Paulista, através de abordagem econômica e social do espaço rural, analisando e refletindo sobre o universo da produção agrícola familiar e as possibilidades futuras deste setor frente às políticas públicas, as possíveis mudanças no dinamismo regional, e os limites que os mesmos têm enfrentado com relação à estrutura fundiária, à produção, à comercialização, aos recursos financeiros, ao acesso à tecnologia, à assistência técnica, sua representação e atuação em associações, cooperativas, sindicatos e outras entidades. As áreas pesquisadas fazem parte do Escritório de Desenvolvimento Rural de Presidente Prudente, composto de 21 municípios, entre os estratos de área de até 100 hectares. No levantamento de campo foram entrevistados produtores rurais, destacando-se questões ligadas à unidade de produção, bem como à unidade social dos agricultores familiares. A região estudada, embora apresente, desde sua formação histórica, alta concentração fundiária de caráter capitalista, com predomínio da atividade pecuária de corte extensiva, não levou, necessariamente, ao desaparecimento das unidades de produção familiares, fossem elas pequenas ou médias. Tampouco levou a uma homogeneização da produção; antes, observa-se uma dinâmica que muitas vezes inclui múltiplos caminhos, os quais proporcionam uma adaptação contraditória frente às novas circunstâncias sociais e de produção. Com relação às políticas públicas para o setor destacado neste estudo, verifica-se que o Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar não foi, até agora, suficiente para atender, de forma eficaz, os produtores familiares. A comercialização indireta da produção e a insegurança com relação aos preços foram fatores destacados, entre outros aspectos, como limitantes para o produtor familiar, que mostrou resistência em adotar formas de organização social que pudessem protegê-lo. Entretanto, através de estratégias, esses produtores têm sido os responsáveis por parte significativa da produção agropecuária regional, bem como da absorção de mão-de-obra no campo. Neste sentido, analisando-se processos sociais concretos, apreendem-se a diversidade e a complexidade de possibilidades neles contidas, podendo, então, apontar caminhos que possam trazer transformações ao dinamismo regional. / This study aims to understand the space dynamics of the Paulista Southwestern region, through the economic and social approach of the rural, analyzing and reflecting on the overall family agricultural production and its future possibilities before public policies, the possible shifts in the regional dynamics, and the limits that they have faced in relation to land structure production, trade, financial resources, access to technology, and technical assistance, its representation and performance in associations, cooperatives, unions and other entities. The areas researched are parts of the Presidente Prudente Rural Development Office, formed by 21 counties, in up-to-100-hectare area levels. During the field survey, rural producers were interviewed, emphasizing matters connected to the production unit, as well as to the social unit of the family farmers. The region considered, although it has presented a high-level land concentration of capitalist character since its historical formation, and in which the animal husbandry activity of extensive slaughter has been predominant, has necessarily led neither to the disappearance of the little or large family production units, nor to a production homogenity; instead, I have observed a dynamics that has often included multiple ways, which have provided a contradictory adaptation before the new social and production circumstances. In relation to public policies for the field focused in this study, I have verified that the Family Agriculture Development National Program has not been enough to assist the family producers efficiently up to now. The indirect commercialization of the production and the insecurity in relation to prices were the main aspects in focus, among others, as limits for the family producer, who has showed resistance in adapting ways of social organization which could protect them. Nevertheless, through strategies, these very producers have been responsible for a meaningful part of the regional agricultural and animal husbandry production, as well as for labour absorption in the country. Therefore, in analyzing concrete social processes, I have realized the diversity and complexity of possibilities within them, so that, I believe it is able to indicate ways that could bring changes to the regional dynamics.