“Aqui tem gente!”: as mulheres em ação do Porto do Capim

Abstract

In the threshold of 800 thousand habitants, Joâo Pessoa is a city that, in the last fifteen years, has been under an urbanization process. As part of this intense process, in the year of 2013, it’s prefecture announced the development of the “João Pessoa Sustainable City Plan of Action”, inside the Emergent City Initiative (or ICES), that aims to implement policies of sustainable development in the Paraiba State capital, that includes changes towards climatic changes and urban planning. One of these projects of revitalization of the city, is the project of revitalization of the “Porto do Capim”, that, once initiated, aroused a series of popular mobiliziations and questionings about the model of development and about the ways that the city has been organized since. One of such mobilizations is the “Ocupe Porto do Capim”, that has as a backbone the Comissão Porto do Capim em Ação, and the association of the Women of the Porto do Capim. Of the categories of genre, fight for acknowledgment and right to the city, it lays a view about the plots of the lives of these women that organize the association at the Porto do Capim.