Nas margens da Cidade Olímpica: etnografia visual da luta por moradia da Ocupação Quilombo das Guerreiras no Porto Maravilha

Abstract

Working with a collective of homeless squatters in their struggle for housing in the port zone of Rio de Janeiro city, this dissertation, carried out within the scope of visual anthropology, adopts as methodology the analysis of the construction of a visual narrative of this group about its trajectory in the middle of the process of revitalization of the area. At the same time as it is based on an anthropology of the margins, seeks to inquire the conditions of possibility of these images, shifting the problematic of the representations to the question of the meshes of relations of power that sustain them. Represented by the promoters of the reform as underdeveloped and precarious spaces, as if they only survived, at the limit of life and nature, urban squats became a systematic target of eviction with the project of urban intervention "Porto Maravilha". It is justified from the perspective of the harbor as an "empty to be filled", proposing then to "re-vitalize". In this medley of categorizations, between legal / illegal, invasion / social housing, victims / thugs, members of the squats are entangled in these power games in which they have to negotiate and circumvent their harmful effects in a struggle that is thus personal and political. They construct, through collective organization and self-management, strategies that singularly recreate ways of inhabiting the city. Thus, urban squats, as this "marginal" space at the Olympic city, is a privileged space for the analysis of the politics of city-making.