Cidade e Jardinagem: ambivalência socioespacial, estigma e segregação na cidade do Belo Jardim

Abstract

This work tries to analyse the contemporary men's and women's hard effort joined in social ambivalence games. Cities are the place for excellence of tenseness and conflicts materialization created by the difficulty to live with the different as alterity. Despite the geographical, historic, economic and cultural singularity of the cities, on large or small scale, there is a visualization of the processes of socio-space segregation among individuals and social groups, enlarged and resignified through the mixture of old themes and structural problems with the new sensibility, fear and stigma emergency brought by capitalist modernity on its global phase. So, there is an attempt to understand the joint between global processes and local particularity relating to the tenseness and discomfort caused by the "myxophobia" to people from incongruous places with some kind of order and civility. The city of Belo Jardim was the analysis stage of these questions, namely, it interested me to investigate how the city s élite, in the name of an aesthetic and social conception, produces representations and practices of segregation and how this grows and affects the interval of a popular neighborhood. Finally, it deals with the analysis of urban gardening practices, the way the élite and established groups produce Belo Jardim's outcasts, those who are seen and considered as trashy. This research is theoretical and methodologically based on a historic and socioanthropological perspective.