Critical analysis of the discourses on South-South Brazilian cooperation for Africa and the territorialization of projects: The case of COTTON-4
South-South Cooperation, Territorialization, Discourses in the construction of hegemonies.
Technical cooperation consists of the construction of aid agreements in certain sectors that aim at the transfer of technologies (social, scientific or operational), the use of this type of cooperation is increasingly perceived as a strategy for the projection of hegemonies by the countries. In the context of the Brazilian foreign policy adopted in the last years (2003-2010), technical cooperation has gained relevance, in particular, for the investments made in the African continent, producing geographies from the dynamic cooperation. Brazil, as a donor in cooperation with Africa is based on the discourse of South-South cooperation relations that oppose the hegemonic and imperialist character of North-South cooperation. In order to evaluate the possible distance between discourse and practice and the territorialisation of Brazil's technical, economic and political power over Africa, Cotton-4 + Togo, a structuring technical cooperation project in agriculture, serves as an important example of cooperation territoriality of Brazil to Africa, due to its financial contribution, geopolitical context and mobilization of technical power.