LUTANDO POR UM LUGAR NA CIDADE DE MACEIÓ, BRASIL / FIGHTING FOR A PLACE IN THE CITY, MACEIÓ, BRASIL

Abstract

The understanding of urban poverty has expanded in recent decades, focusing less on economic characteristics and including concepts such as exclusion and vulnerability. As part of the theoretical framework of this research, this was to combine concepts such as culture of poverty, marginality and new marginality with the associated spatial patterns, including occupations, ghettos and hiperperiferia. Within this context, this article explores the dynamics of social and spatial integration by observing the daily life of slums in Maceio, Alagoas. Life stories of slum dwellers were used to show that, in most cases, the state is absent from the lives of the poor, highlighting violations of human rights, challenging the state and society to rethink the invisibility of policies and what I call the territorialization of poverty. Continuous mobility and spatial segregation reveal that in addition to any right of rhetoric to the city, to fight for a space in the city continues. Keywords: urban poverty