A produção do espaço urbano através do ato de habitar: um estudo sobre a relação entre política habitacional, território e sujeitos sociais em Juiz de Fora - MG

Abstract

We are proposing the theoretical challenge to understand the subaltern social subjects from its insertion in the territory, definite by production of space (power, domination and symbolic, abstract and material appropriation) through the action of inhabit. Among many visible expressions that characterize the issue social, we centralize our study about the housing problem in urban context wich is produced by the commodification of land and the habitation in view of profits. We understand that the action to inhabit may be a decisive element in defining about the social subjects in a position of subordination. The production of space through the action to inhabit is intrinsic to a contradictory relationship between the subaltern social subjects and dominant social subjects mediated by State through the housing policies. The production of space realized from the action to inhabit is legally concentrated on private property of land consolidated on market initiative for most people, on State allied to capitalist interests for a select group and for alternatives to outlaw for the other. The urban and housing policies implemented for the purpose legal production of territory characterize deleting a frame, fragmentation, segregation. The suburb residents are the same entered in the forms of precarious work or they are those who fall outside the job market; they live or they survive on casual works, government subsidies of cash transfer programs, or illegal activities as drug trafficking and guns. We understand that competition for space, land, housing and job is characterized as demonstration of the class struggle, because it pit conflicting interests of social class.