Às margens de marés : uma análise sociológica da reprodução social e violência sistêmica no bairro de Jardim Veneza - João Pessoa/PB.

Abstract

This research analyzes how systemic violence occurs in the peripheral neighborhood of Jardim Veneza, which is not reflected in recent discourse about the capital of Paraíba as one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Brazil and the world. The contradictions presented in the image disseminated about João Pessoa obscure the profound social and economic inequalities that exist in the territory. In order to understand systemic violence, which goes beyond peripheral territories, we must relate the reality that has been presented to us with the theoretical contributions of authors such as Thiti Batthacharya, Karl Marx, and Heleieth Saffioti. These territories are critically and unequally affected, which is why we focus on the condition of women in the periphery within this marginal territory. In this work, we address the social, political, cultural, and individual implications of this systemic violence in the daily life of the neighborhood. The study addresses, through the Theory of Social Reproduction, the capitalist mode of production, which depends on an integration between production and social reproduction, in which we must relate and analyze gender, race, and class to understand how the right to life is denied to the subaltern classes. And by the right to life, we mean the difficulties of access to health, safety, leisure, education, and even the right to the city, as discussed by author Henri Lefebvre. The ability to reclaim the pace of life, beyond the precariousness of life and work, a pace of one's own that gives one the means to live life beyond work. Through participant observation, walks, secondary data, newspaper articles, ethnographic data, photographs, and analysis of data provided in the João Pessoa Master Plan, we analyzed how the data provided relates to the daily life described and theoretically reflected upon. As a result, the study prioritized the difficulties of daily life in the Jardim Veneza neighborhood, where the means of sustaining the lives of residents are scarce, demonstrating that economic advances are concentrated in the neighborhoods where power and economic capital are concentrated in João Pessoa, a fact that continues to deepen multiple forms of violence in the peripheries.