À margem do cais – As lembranças de casa e da luta dos moradores da Ocupação Quilombo das Guerreiras

Abstract

In October 2006, nearly 60 homeless families occupied a building abandoned by Rio de Janeiro’s Port Authority (Companhia Docas do Rio de Janeiro) in the city’s Port Zone. Thus was born Ocupação Quilombo das Guerreiras, a self-managed housing collective.This paper seeks to construct a narrative of the history of the Quilombo das Guerreiras occupation, based on residents’ memories and on perspectives of the Black diaspora. The text will discuss the occupation’s political and social organization and analyze thesocio-spatial conflicts generated through the implementation of the Marvelous Port (PortoMaravilha) urban renewal project, which led to the eviction of Quilombo das Guerreiras in 2014, in the context of sporting mega-events (2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics). To this end, interviews were conducted with the residents of Quilombo das Guerreiras, where they retraced their trajectory in the social movement, analyzed the construction of the collective living space and its formative, emancipatory, and counter-hegemonic aspects. As well as, the state production of an urban intervention and construction of memory spaces that did not take into account the black history of the region.