THE TERRITORY AND ITS SOCIAL RELATIONS: CHÃO DE ESTRELAS COMMUNITY. RECIFE PE
Dwell; Power relations; Conflict; Social Interest Housing; Resettlement; Territory; PAC Beberibe.
The trajectory between the moment of transfer and the resettlement of the families of the Irmã Terezinha Housing Complex shows a scenario of contradictory interests between the State and the population, which on the one hand has the public power, with its management of the territory on behalf of the Secretary of Sanitation do Recife - SESAN and on the other side the population residing on the banks of the Beberibe River, in the community of Chão de Estrelas awaiting housing units. Hence, a process of social participation emerges from the tension of forces acting as a direct result of the social division by power and wealth. The community of Chão de Estrelas is spatially located in this disputed territory and object of infrastructure intervention in sanitation works of the PAC Beberibe, within the urban fabric of Recife. The resettlement of families to the 69 housing units of the Irmã Terezinha Housing Complex, which make up part of the scope of the residences delivered under the PAC Beberibe Acceleration and Growth Program, was guided by anxieties and insecurities regarding the right to housing, which took place through an involuntary resettlement with no prospects of handing over the houses and without understanding/agreeing with the establishment of priority criteria for meeting the delivery program of housing units, as well as the non-guarantee of permanence in their place of origin and construction of their social relationships: your neighborhood. Thus, the question is: how did residents, community leaders and technicians relate to each other during the course of the housing change (housing-community)? It is in the city that a series of social demands take place, one of them being the production of housing space, understood as an expression of social reproduction. The production of housing and the construction of urbanized space often become a conflictive process between social agents. (CAPEL, 2013) These processes create spatial functions and forms, that is, they create activities and their materializations, whose distribution constitutes the urban spatial organization itself. The relationships between these agents, guided by different interests in the production of urban space within the community of Chão de Estrelas, took place from the tensions tensioned in the same territory. The characteristics and role of urban social agents and the specificities in the way of building the living space is the object of this study. The study aims to understand the unfolding of urban social conflicts in the management of the space of social reproduction, contributing to the discussions about the right to housing and access to housing policies. More specifically, it is intended to analyze the participation of agents in the different stages of the resettlement process in the Irmã Terezinha Housing Complex in the PAC Beberibe; the technical guidance instruments used to define the families for the housing units; and the influences of the tensions of the residents' movements in the realization of the inhabited space. Finally, it will seek to point out the strengths and weaknesses arising from the route traced until the delivery of housing units by SESAN. Based on the concept of territoriality (SOUZA, 2008; SAQUET, 2008; RAFFESTIN, 1993), space management (CASTILHO, 2011; CARLOS, 1996) and “urban conflicts” (ZAPAROLLI, 2009; SANTOS and FERREIRA, 2019) During the resettlement, the discussion about the right to housing (CF, 1988) and its access will be built. With regard to the right to the city (LEFEBRV, 1968; HARVEY, 2014) to access to housing (MARICATO, 2015) the power relations (GUATARRI, 1986; FOUCAULT, 1998) that permeate dwelling are essentially present in the reproduction of housing (CASTILHO, 2011). The empirical focus will therefore be the Irmã Terezinha Housing Complex, located in the northern region of the Municipality of Recife, bathed by the Beberibe River and inserted in the Sewage Unit 21 (UE21). The Socioterritorial Registry, the transfer of families, and the present day delimit the time frame and allow the reconstruction of the trajectory of housing resettlement. To this end, the triangulation of methods will be carried out: 1 – Database Research (institutional sites, Laws, Registries and official documents); 2 – Listening (interviews with public management technicians and community leaders and Focus Groups with the residents’ committee) and 3 – Ethnography, with participant observation, based on descriptive principles (PEIRANO, 2014) in order to carry out a reflective analysis of the actions undertaken in the field experienced. In this way, the qualitative method is used, which allows the incorporation of research and data collection techniques that aggregate information and increase the degree of veracity to the study in a multifaceted reality.