State violence in the production of territories, informality, and protection networks

Author(s)

Renato Abramowicz Santos ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Departamento de Sociologia - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Cadernos Metrópole; v. 26, n. 59, p. 283-308, 2023-12-01.

Abstract

Abstract Based on violence originated by the State, this article describes and analyzes evictions to put the production of urban space and conflict into perspective. The text’s empirical basis is an ethnographic study carried out in the central area of São Paulo, where the State’s strength is revealed through evictions, displacements, destruction of territories and long-established social fabrics, and production of informality and informal markets; it also approaches the articulation of networks and protection arrangements (including housing) as responses to this violence. Another objective is to observe, in these disputes, a tactical and situational mobilization and instrumentalization of institutional webs, analyzing the process of creation of repertoires and practices in this movement marked by conflict. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 22/06583-7 - State violence in the production of conflict, spaces, and protection networks in face of processes of dispossession and displacement
• Grantee: Renato Abramowicz Santos
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 20/02075-1 - Dispossessions and displacements: creation of urban spaces and social relations
• Grantee: Renato Abramowicz Santos
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate