Cidadania em construção: possibilidades e limites no processo de exlusão/inclusão social no Nucleo Cooperativa de Lixo do Real Parque

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Sônia Maria Rezende Camargo de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3762
• topic: Cidadania; Cooperativa; Resíduos sólidos; Favela; Inclusão social; Real Parque (Favela); Cooperativas; Residuos; Citizenship; Cooperative; Solid waste; Favela (shanty town); Social inclusion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

Resulting from the author s personal involvement with the favela Real Parque, holding a position of Technical Director at the Centro de Saúde Real Parque (Health Center Base Unit) from 1987 to 2002, an idea arose to set up a project for selective gathering of waste solids, which involved the organization of a cooperative system that would generate sustainable income for the people, having in focus the minimization of poverty of the Real Parque favela residents. The favela is located in the south side of São Paulo, which is one of the most wealthy regions of the city, attached to the Morumbi Administrative District, where the difference between the rich and wealthy population, living in luxurious condominiums, contrasts clamorously with the socially destitute residents of the favela Real Parque . With the objective of verifying whether there is a possibility for building up citizenship, with political, civic and social rights, by forming a cooperative nucleus called ReciclaReal at the Real Parque , this survey is being conducted in a socially empiric manner called actionsurvey , while revealing quantitative and qualitative demographic details, which comprehensively includes the local reality and suggests solidarity economics as a new form of social organization, and an alternative for inclusion of those whose insertion in the job market is extremely difficult. Based upon authors who have pondered on matters regarding the build-up of citizenship, it is evident that the combined economic, social and technological transformations that occurred since the beginning of the 20th century have produced both positive and negative aspects. Regarding the latter, we can mention unemployment as having brought about innumerable consequences to the less-favored classes, particularly in Brazil. These effects also brought about an increase in consumerism, thereby increasing discarded waste and aggravating the environmental problems, which paradoxically constitutes the means of subsistence for many people. In this aspect, this survey demonstrates that the cooperatives for selective collection of garbage allows benefits for the socially excluded strata and assists towards their insertion and social emancipation, covering several aspects: in the ecologic sense (rescuing the afflictions of the environment), in the economic sense (recovering inputs, saving raw materials and generating incomes), in the cultural sense (introducing a new culture of waste selection and separation), in the educational sense (making people aware of the harmfulness brought by garbage), in the social sense (interaction between residents of a neighborhood who have different social backgrounds), in the symbolic sense (owning an identity), in the psychological sense (a feeling of dignity and self-esteem) and in the sense of citizenship (building up civil, political and social rights). Thus, the appearance of a new personage in the social scenario: the Environmental Hygienist, a person who can transform reality. It is noteworthy that there is revelation of a new citizenship, resulting from the capabilities to perform faculties as mentioned by Sen (2001), when it is admissible to leave the social animosity of robotized people, and they become full-fledged human citizens. This might be obtained through the Social Laborer, as a result of the wheel method an intermediation gap between different people in actions that mobilize and grant social improvements at government organizations, such as the Unidade Básica de Saúde health centers, with objective proposals and within tangible reach. It should be pointed out that the residents of favelas , in this case the Real Parque, even under precarious health circumstances, are capable of being productive and to earn an income that can assure their subsistence, provided they participate in an economic organization, based on equality, solidarity and interdependence