Tourism and socio-spatial segregation: mitigation and resistance processes in the city of Porto Seguro/BA
Tourism. Socio-spatial segregation. Resistance Movements. Urban Revolution. Porto Seguro/BA.
The city of Porto Seguro in Bahia, one of the main tourist destinations in Brazil, underwent intense tourist urbanization, starting in the 1990s, with processes of gentrification and socio-spatial segregation, culminating in the creation of peripheral neighborhoods, invisible to the eyes of the public. tourists, where urban infrastructure is precarious and rates of violence are high. The peripheral neighborhood Complexo do Baianão is the result of this process, being one of the most populous in the city, concentrating the tourism working class, where indigenous people, descendants of quilombolas live together, as well as migrants who arrived with the hope of employment in the tourist city. However, given the segregated condition, urban revolution movements emerged, taking the form of popular resistance in the urban fabric of Porto Seguro. In this context, the research has the general objective of understanding the strategies adopted to combat socio-spatial segregation induced by tourist urbanization in the city of Porto Seguro/BA, based on the resistance movements of the local population and the actions of public authorities. The research is exploratory in nature, with a qualitative approach, with the application of focus groups and semi-structured interviews as information collection techniques with participants in popular resistance movements located in Complexo do Baianão and with public authorities.