Political cartography of urban conflicts and their territorialities: the Cracolandia case

• Grant number: 15/20756-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Urban Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Vera da Silva Telles
• Grantee: Paula Ferreira Telles
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/26116-5 - The govern of conflict in the production of the contemporary city: the case of São Paulo, AP.TEM

Abstract

Connected to empirical front "Govern and conflict of urban spaces" of the thematic project, this program of activities aims to bring empirical evidence for the construction of the politics cartography conflicts and tensions in urban areas of the city of Sao Paulo. The hypothesis which tends to explore is that the fields of urban intervention, treated by this thematic project has been marked by a conflict that matters to rebuild, as well as new forms of legal activism, there are an outstanding multitude of actors and collective networks of varied extension, which guards varied socio-urban questions and is composed with each other under logical territorial as the circumstances, contexts and also the urgent needs. The issue must take as principal focus the research "case Cracolândia", as described and proposed in this research front. (AU)