As mudanças nas formas de representação política dos moradores de favelas: do líder comunitário aos agentes sociais

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the changes in community leaders, actors representing Rio de Janeiro slum dwellers is with the government. The argument posed is that community leaders ware formed over a process in which slum dwellers were submitted for public policies to urban interventions to a condition of inferiority. It defends the thesis that the Favela-Bairro Project, in line with the changing world of work and way of thinking the city, there was a qualitative change of the political forms of mediation between community leaders and slum population living slum with the government, instituting other political actors: the community labor and the underssocial worker. There was a qualitative change in the way of acting politically and had represented a slum population with governments. The thesis examines the planning regulations and public policies for the slums of the city, as well as political forms of co-opting local leaders. The research was based on fieldwork conducted in seven slums of Rio de Janeiro, based on interviews of old and new political leadership in the slums. The starting point was the work of Antonio Gramsci on the establishment of classes and subordinate groups and their concept of making molecular group and also the theoretical contribution of Nancy Fraser on Redistribution and struggles for identity was used.