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| Author(s): |
Fabiana Valdoski Ribeiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-12-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos;
Jorge Luiz Barbosa;
Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira;
Silvana Maria Pintaudi;
Cibele Saliba Rizek
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| Advisor: | Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos |
| Abstract | |
In the beginning of the 21st century, social and political changes stemming from economic determinations take on new meanings, especially in Brazil. It is in this context that many of the demands put forward by urban social movements, linked to the urban reform agenda, have turned into public policies, especially after the inauguration of the Ministry of Cities in 2003. This reality poses the challenge of thinking about the meaning of these changes for present day urbanization. In our research, we have considered how one of the key demands of political organizations the security provided by tenure has become a public policy. The security provided by land tenure is at the forefront of the demands made by social movements and is attached to the right to housing for slum dwellers. It is also a crucial instrument for resisting efforts often by the state to remove slums and its inhabitants. However, in the transition from a demand of tenure to the regularization of slum occupation, contradictions emerge and many see these as placing serious limitations to these policies. A host of scholars that have studied this issue claim that these limitations stem from planning and management mistakes. Instead, we put forward the hypothesis that these spatial contradictions result from the hegemonic logic associated with capitalist production of space. This logic ends up clashing with the space-time of dwellers who resist strategies of displacement. In order to understand some of the contents of these spatial contradictions, we have brought into focus the production of three places (slums) in Sao Paulo that are part of the program of slum regularization in public land. We have thus selected the slums of Nova Guarapiranga (district of Capela do Socorro), Abatia (district of Itaim Paulista) and Maria Cursi (district of Sao Mateus). As a method of exposition, we have founded our understanding on a triad: sociospatial segregation-resistance-appropriation of space. This triad expresses a contradictory articulation of processes and, in the analysis of some of the contradictions in the production of urban space, it has offered us the possibility of opening up a path to think about the right to the city. (AU) | |