Urbanização e “pacificação” em Manguinhos: um olhar etnográfico sobre sociabilidade e ações de governo

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the impacts of two programs developed in Rio’s favelas – the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) – on the associative life and routines of the residents of Complexo de Manguinhos [Manguinhos Complex dwellers]. Over four years of fieldwork, I interviewed residents and community leaders and participated in the various cultural and political activities in the different favelas that make up the Complexo de Manguinhos to understand the effects of implementing these two programs. Since the announcement of the PAC in 2007, the Manguinhos Social Forum, a collective space for mobilizing and formulating proposals, has gained centrality in the political life of the territory and has become, due to its history and ways of acting, which is the guiding thread of the narrative presented in this thesis. Throughout the work, I maintain that in spaces considered to be on the fringes of the city, as is the case of Manguinhos territory, the government strategies adopted by the public power are based on the promotion of public policies and urbanization reforms permeated by illegalities and coercive control. In this thesis, therefore, I show how the adoption of these strategies reveals specific forms of government regulation and the close relationship between the definition of the State and the practices of its agents.