Our dress coat is is two-faced: the socio-spacial dynamic and the local politic in the implementation process of PAC and UPP in a slum in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Author(s)

Juliana Blasi Cunha

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-09-15

Examining board members

Heitor Frúgoli Junior; Marco Antonio da Silva Mello; Suzana Pasternak; Cibele Saliba Rizek; Mariana Cavalcanti Rocha dos Santos

• Advisor: Heitor Frúgoli Junior

Abstract

This dissertation is articulated around the recent process of implementing public policies in two neighboring favelas in the zona sul of the city of Rio de Janeiro, which is known as Pavão-Pavãozinho-Cantagalo Complex. This process involves some of the most visible policies in the current political scenario, such as the Program for Accelerating Growth (PAC), The Pacification Police Units (UPP) and also policies for urban and land regulation. By employing a situational analysis of this drama, the work makes evident differentiations, rivalries, and also alliances that spread throughout the complex organizational dynamics of residents in both Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho. By analyzing discourses and spatial practices in distinct social situations, the dissertation emphasizes that residents in these two favelas dont perceive and, especially, dont act as one single unified group, cohesive and integrated, such as suggested by the category Pavão-Pavãozinho-Cantagalo Complex. The dissertation further discurses the challenges placed on previous arrangements of local associativism throughout the process of implementing these public policies. The work describes and analyzes how both old and new actors on the local political scene participate in the process underway, giving special attention to community leadership practice and the notion of agency as found therein. The dissertation takes up the multiple logics that guides action among these leaders, thus calling into question the recurrent polarization found in analyses of this topic among individualist and collectivist practices. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/01915-4 - The PAC and Pavão-Pavãozinho-Cantagalo: perceptions and practices involved in the process of implementing public policy in a Rio slum.
• Grantee: Juliana Blasi Cunha
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate