Saúde e poder no Rio de Janeiro Olímpico (2008-2015).

Abstract

In this work we narrated the main events of accelerated "great transformation" of social and urban organization of the city of Rio de Janeiro (which occurred mainly between 2007 and 2016), guided by direct and indirect interests of big capitalist groups, with crucial involvement of the state, which had as one of their catalysts to hold a series of mega-events (in particular the first Olympic Games in South America, made official in 2009). Among the large number of urban-institutional interventions of political and economic developments carried out by state and non-state articulated forces - which express a reorganization of power and domination between classes and markedly unequal groups, raising conflict - were emphasized in the narrative those occurring in areas where overlaps on the one hand, the inflection in the security policy that is named "pacification" (considered a key element of the changes in progress), and, on the side of social policy, the restructuring of the public health sector around the implementation of the Family Health Strategy and the reformulation of the Primary Health Care (especially in metropolitan city-core, where he was called "Reform of Primary"). To study the Rio metropolis in its current dynamics, we used the procedures of the history of present and geography of power, that show the links between the urban conformation, the means of domination/ production consensus and capitalist economic organization, with interesting political and philosophical implications about the power mechanisms that interfere in the formation of a society in permanent conflict, namely a black genocide / civil war intensified after the end of the cold war. Through historical and geographical analysis of maps, some produced in the survey - which takes into account several aspects of the metropolitan area (including the set of interventions carried out in the period) - it was possible diagram the socio-spatial whole contrasting the pacified areas ( almost all within the richest regions of the city-core) and non-pacified (distinguishing those inside and outside the city-center). It can be concluded, despite the improvement of socio-economic indicators and the social and racial conciliation and integration rhetoric (usually technocratic nature), the occurrence of an increased separation between classes, races, ethnicities, operated through a systematic production of violence, domination and consensus, appropriate form of social regulation metropolitan regions of world capitalism in systemic crisis, which anticipates and prepares for the explosion of "social question". .