City: spatial production, forms of control and conflicts

• Autor(a) principal: Telles, Vera da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/revcienso/article/view/2423
• topic: Production of Urban Spaces; Commodification of Spaces and Urban Territories; Militarized Forms of Control and Management of Urban Spaces; Urban Conflicts; Produção de espaços urbanos; mercantilização de espaços e territórios urbanos; formas de controle e gestão militarizada de espaços urbanos; conflitos urbanos.

Taking as an empirical reference the city of São Paulo, this article tries to unravel the various logics through which the urban territoriality is produced, traversed by conflicts and strain fields that are everywhere, but are also shaped around friction points determined by processes of growing commodification of spaces, places, lives and ways of life, in its intersection with militarized forms of control and the logical management of urban spaces. This is the assumption that we intend to explore in order to unravel the nexus between production and expansion of markets, forms of control and power devices, and a renewed conflict, which is expressed in the most varied forms. We seek to understand how these two ‘lines of force’, the logic of the market and forms of control, territorialize in located/situated/placed contexts, circumscribing areas of tension and conflict, whose forms/shapes and meanings are precisely what we want to discuss.