“Tinha uma pedra no meio do caminho, no meio do caminho tinha uma pedra”. O bairro Dom Bosco: uma longa vida comunitária e seus desafios frente ao avanço do capital imobiliário

Abstract

The Dom Bosco neighborhood is located in one of the main growth centers of the city. The value of urban land, from the extraction of land rent, confronts the neighborhood with acts that undermine the basic rights of life, a situation especially affecting the more traditional and poorer population. The restructuring of space, while conveying benefits, is the result of intensified capitalist production of space, grounded in a global logic guided by the precepts of the current stage of flexible capital accumulation. The space is being fragmented at the same time that it is seeing an increase in its market value. This fact leads to the process of socio-spatial segregation, since the maximization of market values produces disproportionate benefits for some groups and decreases opportunities for others. The state in turn uses its instruments to ensure capital accumulation to the detriment of living conditions for the residents of Dom Bosco. It is in this context that the neighborhood community is organizing and struggling for the right to the city, balancing the correlation of forces with the capitalist state, and achieving successful results that strengthen its permanence in its place of origin.