Do lixo ao luxo no bairro de Cruz das Almas: o processo de (re) produção do espaço urbano capitalista e sua incompatibilidade com o direito à cidade

Abstract

Since 2010 the neighborhood of “Cruz das Almas” has undergone several changes in its urban form. Investments in infrastructure and private enterprises are delivering a new garment to the "dump" neighborhood. These improvements are not homogeneous in the neighborhood, but affect only a small portion of it, which aggravates a situation of inequality and socio-spatial segregation. Thinking about this, this work has the central objective of observing, from Bourdieusean categories, how the process of segregation is legitimized by the State and the Law. It was concluded that law functions as a structured and structuring structure, because it creates spatial reality, but at the same time it is created by objective relations between agents. As a result, the state legitimizes the antagonistic positions of dominant and dominated, and, in addition, it gives its role to the market. In this way, access to urban life depends on the power to buy this city-commodity. As the excluded groups of “Cruz das Almas” do not demonstrate this purchasing power, they do not have the right to access this new neighborhood, structured, competitive and attractive.