Direito à moradia adequada na cidade na floresta: análise da geografia do capitalismo em Barcarena/PA

Abstract

This research intends to analyze the right to adequate housing in the Amazonian business city, in order to answer to the questioning of how the approach of the city as a business affects the right to adequate housing in the city in the forest. Therefore, the main goal of this research was to provide a diagnosis of the reach of the right to adequate housing by the local population of the city of Barcarena/PA, per an unusual analysis of the concretion of this right, that exceeds the State’s obligation to provide houses through public policies and demands that it considers this right in all its actions and decisions, especially in the ones that it acts as the capital coordinator in the territory. In this context, this research has four specific goals. The first specific goal was to identify the construction on the legal content of the right to adequate housing. The second specific goal of this research was to situate the right to adequate housing in the globalized risk society context, whose production of space is capitalist, which interferes in the way the city is seen. The third specific goal presented the reaction to the city as business approach, through the discussion of the right to the city and the exam of how the capitalist production of space happens. Lastly, the fourth specific goal of this research was to analyze how the approach of city as business affects the right to adequate housing in the city in the forest and to exam the access to adequate housing around the industrial district of Barcarena/PA, so the research problem is answered. The methodology employed is, in nature, applied. As for the objectives, it is an exploratory and descriptive research, raising information to evidence facts and phenomena of the reality of the territory under analysis. For the discussion of the theme, the approach is qualitative and based on bibliographical and documentary sources. It was concluded that the production of space in the city of Barcarena/PA is capitalist and that this is space is commodified, what directly affects the concretion of the right to adequate housing.