Ideologia e utopia no ocaso da reforma urbana no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Maria de Fátima Tardin
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15114
• topic: Utopia; Urban reform; Urban policies; Ideology; Workers Party (PT); Utopia; Reforma urbana; Ideologia; Movimentos sociais Brasil; Política Urbana Brasil; Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brasil); CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

The central objective of this work is the discussion of the formation of anticapitalist social movements that could resist to the barbarian tendencies of our present, a moment when capitalism reaches its logical limits, leaving the masses, the ―moneyless monetary subjects‖, completely uncertain about their future. Since that, in the 80 s, the birth of the Workers Party (PT) represented the possibility of the construction of a revolutionary party in Brazil, and given the great importance of social reforms in the PT s political trajectory here included the urban reform , we decided that our main focus in this study should be the urban reform itself. From the point of view of the capitalist periphery, taking in account the particularities of the Brazilian situation in the context of globalization, we discuss the urban struggle and the expectations of these people towards the future, generated in the process of creating an urban reform project. We also discuss the tense situation of the people engaged in the social movements fighting for habitation, how they face the always present threat of being removed, expelled, and the violence that emerges in the context of land speculation and spoliation, and how, driven by the fetish of the institutionality, they try to fight back in the realm of the bourgeois law and the urban reform. Our analyzes faces the central ideas of this project, the making of the National Movement for Urban Reform (MNRU) in the process of Brazil s national Constitution and the actions of the National Forum for Urban Reform (FNRU) in front of the difficulties involving the urban struggle and before the contingent and structural limits of the struggle for their rights. We discuss the prevalent influence that the group of political and intellectual ideas articulated by the PT and the FNRU exerts in the confront with the urban problems produced by the social injustices and inequalities inherent to the capitalist production of the city. We strongly point the building of the connection between the PT and the FNRU and the conversion of their symbolic capital as something structuring in this common trajectory: from the foundation of the party to present days, when, after winning the presidential election, the FNRU, supporting the PT administration, takes over, in the terrain of urban policies, the hole of running the social crises in the void of the politics. We argue that the professionalization and the institutionalization of the urban reform project are means of transforming its ideas according to the limits of the peripheral Brazilian market. Following a generation of left wing intellectuals who are now no more than liberal reformers, due to the defeat of socialism in the Twentieth century, the recent transformations in capitalism and the lack of revolutionary movements on the horizon, the urban reform project reaches a dead point. At the end, we try to set the crucial importance of utopia, as the only way of understanding our real situation and of seeing that we are already inserted in barbarism and social dissolution.