Economia política das remoções forçadas urbanas: expropriação, espoliação e exploração na produção do espaço urbano (o caso da Comunidade Aldaci Barbosa, Fortaleza/CE)

Abstract

IACOVINI, Victor. Political economy of the urban forced evictions: expropriation, dispossession and exploration in the production of the urban space (the case of the Aldaci Barbosa Comunity, Fortaleza/CE). 191 l. Dissertation (Master). Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2017.In a context where the production of urban space is increasingly important, whether by the provision of infrastructure, by the production of real estate, or by its articulation; Many families living in self-built settlements are threatened with forced eviction and forced removal with low compensation for urban projects. This situation raises a number of political conflicts between communities threatened with expropriation, public agencies and private interests involved. At the center of the conflict are guidelines such as the permanence in the place, the procedures (registration, evaluations, indemnifications), the alternative housing, etc. The General Objective of the work is to understand the role of forced removal and resettlement processes in the current production of urban space in its political (hegemony, domination and class struggle) and economic dimensions (espoliation, exploitation, accumulation and amplified reproduction of capital) and their interweaving in expanded reproduction and capital accumulation. The hypothesis is that, in the current context, where the production of urban space is increasingly relevant to the accumulation and reproduction of capital, urban forced relocation and resettlement processes -as geographic mechanisms of space adequacy to the reproduction needs of the Capital provide not only an accumulation by "dispossession", but also by "exploitation" of the patrimonial assets (land and / or buildings) of communities by expropriation; Complemented by the 'new' space (infrastructures, housing, etc.); Just as they dialect and express, dialectically, the (crisis of) hegemony, domination and class struggle. The method adopted consists of the combination of bibliographic and documentary research, semistructured interviews and the case study of the Aldaci Barbosa Community, in Fortaleza, Ceará. The processes of urban forced eviction and resettlement have a growing centrality in the production of urban space as geographic mechanisms for the operation of power and expansion of hegemony and domination of private property relations and capitalist mode of production intertwined by an "organic connection" between the exploitation and the dispossession that impel the amplified reproduction and the capitalist accumulation by the production of the urban space.