Entraves ao direito à cidade: o caso da Vila Emater II em Maceió – AL

Abstract

The right to the city, created by Lefebvre as a response to the capitalist and repressive production of the city, has evolved and adapted to contemporary times, acquiring the form of a political principle that unites social movements. Being widely used by social movements, especially from the period of Brazilian redemocratization, this principle became directly linked to the struggle for housing, a constitutional right that aims to guarantee quality in the production of cities in the reproduction of a libertarian urban life. On the other hand, the pendular movements of the collective conscience in favor of social justice have become an obstacle, especially in the last decade, placing the market and neoliberal ideology as central forces in the production of the urban environment. In this sense, the present work seeks to investigate the practical implications of the right to the city in the production of cities in the capitalist context, analyzing the ways in which this right materializes, or not, using Vila Emater II, in Maceió AL, as a case study. Through methodologies that place residents at the center of the analysis of these barriers, the research was able to identify how urbanization agents influence the guarantee or not of rights by the poorest population.