Entre a subcidadania e o direito à cidade: estudos críticos sobre a urbanização de favelas no Brasil e as Zonas Especiais de Interesse Social (ZEIS) no Recife – PE

Abstract

The present thesis reveals, based on the recuperation of experiences for the right to the city in the world, for the urbanization and regularization of the favelas in Brazil and for the Special Zones of Social Interest (ZEIS) in Recife, that the direct and institutional actions, have promoted the access to partial conditions of socio-spatial reproduction, insufficient to overcome the persistent conditions of discrimination, inequality and sub-citizenship, accentuated by the predominance of contemporary neoliberal and conservative perspectives. This recovery had in the dialectical method the reference path to the approach of studies and reflections, considering the interest in verifying the contradictions and possibilities of the actions by the precarious settlements as to conceptions related to the right to the city. In addition to document analysis and treatment of secondary data, interviews were also held with activists for the Urban Reform and the Right to the City of Brazil and with community leaders from the favelas of Recife to support research and analysis. It was possible to observe in the thesis that, despite unfavorable structural and conjuncture conditions, some of the actions and instruments of urbanization and regularization experiments in favelas and recent alternative collective initiatives for the right to the city can subsidize actions, instruments and instances of co-management (or selfmanagement) with a view to building a new democratic, inclusive and just urbanization. It remains as a challenge to articulate oppressed and dissatisfied with unequal and alienating urbanization, with space justice, common goods and self-management as horizons for the right to the city.