Produção capitalista racista da espacialidade carioca: uma análise a partir de conflitos fundiários urbanos

Abstract

This work proposes to understand the interrelationship between the production of spatiality and legal action/production or spatial order. Furthermore, it seeks to clarify the extent to which this action and the production of lived space are related to racial capitalist production. This analysis begins with the observation of concrete situations: land conflicts in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The data that supported this observation were extracted from three reports, two of which have already been published, on this topic. With sources shared by the Nucleus for Land and Housing of the Defensoria Pública of the State of Rio de Janeiro (NUTH) to IPPUR/UFRJ and to Labá - Direito, Espaço & Política (FND/UFRJ), it was found that land conflicts and evictions occur with greater intensity in areas where there is greater real estate interest or where there is urban expansion. In addition, they are areas with a majority of black, low-income population. Judicial decisions related to four occupations were also analyzed to understand how the production of order organized that spatiality. The research strategy was to start from the analysis of the concrete case to later discuss to what extent theories on the production of spatiality and critical legal theory can help to explain both that specific dynamic and to highlight the central elements in a theory of the production of spatiality . To what extent does the production of order produce spatiality? What are the central elements that stand out in a theoretical analysis of the production of lived space? What are the contributions and limits that critical legal theory and the theory of spatiality production provide? How do these theoretical keys help in understanding the data and judicial decisions previously presented? And to what extent does the racist inscription of the spatiality of a specific socio-spatial formation help to build a theoretical speculation that elevates this aspect as a central element? These were the questions that each chapter of the thesis sought to answer. In the end, I stress that not only are capital and state action central to the analysis of the production of spatiality, but racism is as well. By mobilizing racial capitalism as an important key, the racist management of Rio's spatiality, allied to the role of law, helped in the theoretical understanding of that specific dynamic.