Racismo estrutural na descentralização orçamentária das cidades: uma análise da desigualdade socioespacial no orçamento público das subprefeituras da cidade de São Paulo entre os anos de 2014 a 2022

Abstract

With the approval of Law 13,399/2002 of the municipality of São Paulo, municipal administrative decentralization was approved, the so-called subprefectures. And from this perspective, the legislation proposes a regionalized municipal public budget with vigorous popular participation in territorial realities. When considering this decentralization, it has to go through the process of urbanization in the city of São Paulo, which involves the planning of social and racial inequality, and the political and economic contradictions of the center/periphery. In view of this, the research aimed to guide itself around the dilemma of structural racism in relation to the public budget of the city of São Paulo. From the deductive argumentation, an argument was developed on how the regionalized budget of the sub-prefectures of the city of São Paulo is based on an unequal and racial structure. For this purpose, a quantitative analysis was made of the budgets of the city's 32 sub-prefectures in the historical series from 2014 to 2022, comparing the City's Inequality Map for the same period. From the analysis of the results studied, the understanding was reached that the decentralized public budget in the city of São Paulo reveals circumstances of socio-spatial inequality in the center/periphery logic considered the situation of structural racism. For the research to be resourceful, it is essential to understand structural racism from its historical nuances linked to slavery based on studies of the Critical Racial Theory of Law, a reflection carried out in the first chapter. Next, the public budget and cities were explained in light of the 1988 Federal Constitution, theorizing about the process of popular participation and structural racism. And finally, the public budget of the sub-prefectures of the municipality of São Paulo was compared in light of the Inequality Map designed by Rede Nossa São Paulo between the years 2014 and 2022. The central axis of the work led to analyzing the distribution of the public budget in the territories of the city's regional administrations, established financial and legal connections of an apparent equivalent financial distribution, but when removing the veil of information, one was faced with the context of structural racism.