Produção social do espaço e mobilidade urbana das pessoas com deficiência e doença crônica na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This work has the general objective of discussing urban mobility and transport of people with disabilities and chronic diseases in the city of Rio de Janeiro as an issue pertinent to the theoretical and political field of the social production of space and the “right to the city”, in terms of Henri Lefebvre. And, as specific objectives: 1) analyze the importance of urban mobility for the production of social space, for the re-production of social relations, for everyday life and for the struggles around the right to the city; 2) identify the role of social classes and the State in relation to urban mobility and urban public transport in Brazil at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 20th century, with an emphasis on the city of Rio de Janeiro; 3) reflect on the mobility and urban transport demands of people with disabilities and chronic diseases in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The methodology used is based on the historical-dialectical materialist method and bibliographic and documentary research as collection techniques.