Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MIRIAM FERREIRA DE OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : MIRIAM FERREIRA DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 28/07/2025
TIME: 17:00
LOCAL: IPP/UFRN
TITLE:

Correlations between fear and public sociability: A case study of the Alto do Sumaré neighborhood in Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte

KEY WORDS:

Fear, Sociability, Public Space, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte.

PAGES: 57
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Planejamento Urbano e Regional
SUMMARY:

This study does not deal with a new phenomenon. Fear, a constitutive element in human experience throughout history, is used here to explore its correlation with the dynamics of public sociability in the contemporary context, which appears to reveal new forms of manifestation, intensification, and the production of specific spatialities shaped by mechanisms of control, segregation, and the contraction of collective life. Directly or indirectly, this evolving relationship with space influences new ways of thinking about the city and public space: the city is perceived as a site of potential conflict. Even when based on misinterpretations of crime and violence, or occurring in areas with low crime statistics, this perception encourages behaviors centered on the individuality of urban subjects and the weakening of community ties. Elements such as high walls, lack of visual permeability, surveillance mechanisms, and the proliferation of gated communities reflect the consolidation of an architecture of fear that deeply influences urban life and collective interaction.This study focuses on the Alto do Sumaré neighborhood in Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, a rapidly expanding urban area where spatial logics centered on security and residential confinement are being consolidated. The methodological approach is qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory, employing semi-structured interviews with residents, an analysis of built typologies, and secondary data collection on urban violence. The aim is to understand how residents perceive and use public space and build social ties in a territory shaped by the collective imaginary influenced by the securitization of fear. Beyond its impact on urban territorial organization, the study seeks to grasp the rationalization of daily urban life, in which the principles that underpin the established social order are perceived through transformations in interpersonal relationships generated by increasing social restrictions. The qualitative approach is complemented by secondary data on crime and an analysis of architectural typologies, articulating symbolic and spatial elements of the urban experience. This study contributes to debates on the effects of fear on the socio-spatial configuration of cities by bringing this discussion to the context of a mid-sized inland city already experiencing the impacts of globalized urbanization.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 1014897 - CLAUDIO ROBERTO DE JESUS
Interna - 2758574 - SARA RAQUEL FERNANDES QUEIROZ DE MEDEIROS
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ LUIZ DE AMORIM RATTON JÚNIOR - UFPE