O instituto da segregação: realidade socioespacial entre os bairros de Manaíra e São José no município de João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

We debate socio-spatial inequality from a territorial perspective. The focus was on the contact between residents of two neighborhoods in João Pessoa, capital of Paraíba, geographically linked, although socially distant: Manaíra, a neighborhood considered a noble area, mostly occupied by middle and upper classes; São José, by fragments of the popular classes. It assumes that the relationships between neighborhood residents are determined by a constant apprehension, sometimes manifest, sometimes latent, which can be presented as an outsiders relationship (subjects, both in one neighborhood and in another, who do not feel belonging to one and the other respectively). In a convergent direction, it also concerns an asymmetrical aspect, which occurs due to the segregation to which the inhabitants of the neighborhood of the poor were and are exposed. This article then applies to the relationship between the inhabitants of the two neighborhoods, seeking to describe what we call the clash of opposing realities, which is concrete and spatially manifested as a moment of communication, which can be in a visual way, that is, it concerns the infrastructure, the material world, face to face between the agents, highlighting the representations and symbolisms that attest to the feelings existing in the relationship. It concerns, in addition to material things, the existing infrastructure, a feeling of superiority/inferiority that takes possession of residents as an essential element in the configuration of a place and its limits.