O concreto de João Pessoa sobre as redes do Porto do Capim: conflitos territoriais, grupos domésticos e organização comunitária

Abstract

The present dissertation is willing to discuss the effects and consequences of the territorial conflict faced by the community of Porto do Capim, located in the center of the city of João Pessoa-PB, due to the project of the historic center led by the municipal government. The riverside community of Porto do Capim, in João Pessoa, Paraíba, has a rich trajectory of formation and defense of its own territory. Taking shape from the 1940s onwards, the community receives different flows of people and over time understands such diversity as a constituent part of its identity from the relationship with the Sanhauá River (ASSAD, 2017). In the 1980s and 1990s, a project to revitalize the historic center began, where the community is located. Due to disagreements about the way in which such a project understands the community’s permanence, the conflict begins, which has its moment of greatest tension in 2019, when the first houses are demolished. From these questions, the present work proposes to bring some reflections on the formation of the riverside identity present in the residents of Porto constituted from the daily relationship between the domestic groups and the groups with the environment from the concept of domination (BARBOSA DA SILVA & MURA, 2018). From this flow of people, ideas and materials, we want to shed light on some dynamics that guide the formation of this identity and the relationship between this and the struggle for the permanence of the community in its territory that fosters organizations such as the Associação de Mulheres do Porto do Porto Capim (AMPC) and the collective of young Garças do Sanhauá.