A favela no Leste Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro: o caso da Chumbada em São Gonçalo

Abstract

This dissertation reflects on urban space, how agents act in space driven by the capitalist system of production. In view of this, we verified how the metropolitan context of Rio de Janeiro engendered the formation of peripheral spaces, enhanced by its economic crisis, causing major disruptions, especially in the homes of the most impoverished populations. Investigating the city of São Gonçalo and the consequences of the economic crisis that took place offers us a basis for understanding the formation of the Chumbada favela space, as it is in our interest to show the production of space from the perspective of the urbanization of São Gonçalo to understand the Chumbada favela. From this process, we aim to unveil how this space was formed under the capitalist bases of production. The life that residents lead in the slum and its events are not of much interest to the media, and from then on there was even criticism from the residents of the Chumbada slum. With the issue of violence in evidence most of the time, several consequences are noted from publications that see the Chumbada slum as a “dangerous” place. However, there are experiences that exist in the slum that deserve our attention. In this way, the residents in their living space in the Chumbada slum look at their place of residence differently from what Newspaper O São Gonçalo propagates, creating a paradox of two versions that deserve our attention, and we will show this in our work.