Alienação e transcendência: da insuficiência do Estatuto da Cidade para a constituição de um Direito da Cidade com viés crítico

Abstract

The concept of city democratic management is in the core of debates and reflections on the Law of the City and the Statute of the City . Specifically in regard to the content of these reflections, the democratic management is object of an amazing consensus, being not an easy task to point out reasons in the sense of denying the validity of the construction of an active citizenship for the management of the urban matters. This work intends to understand the reason for the above-mentioned consensus based in a critique conception which aims to draw attention to social aspects which are not usually taken into account on the analysis made by jurists dedicated to this topic. In this sense, issues such as the alienation of the work and its relationship with the political alienation and the real situation of the cities from the perspective of the analytical category of the ESF (economic and social formation) should not be ignored by the debates about the possibilities of effectiveness of citizen performance in the Brazilian cities. It is necessary to critically analyze the instruments of the Statute of the City using the underlined categories in order to prevent greater illusions about the state of the issues here discussed.