Sem lugar: a experiência de remoção de mulheres do Aglomerado Santa Lúcia e o atual contexto político de urbanização da cidade de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The presente research studied and aimed to give voice to the women that are having their houses removed due to the implementation of the Programa Vila Viva in the community of the Aglomerado Santa Lúcia (Belo Horizonte, MG). It aims to analyze the “invisibility”, the exclusion and the subordinated processes of these experiences, taking in account the urbanistic theories and trends adopted by the city of Belo Horizonte administration, management and production of spaces in town. The research is situated in a favela region marked by a social and special exclusion context. Theorical perspectives that contributed to the critics of the model of a city immersed in the global capitalism logics as proposed by Henri Lefebvre. Studies on the “other” constitution in the relationship city x favela also were central, as well as the production of Alba Zaluar, theorist and student of the Brazilian favelas. The theory references of the feminism are brought by the contributions of Gayatri Spivak, that contrast due to the studies about subordination and the subordination processes, responsible for the production of direct effects in women experiences. The research methodology is consisted in a method triangulation that involved the documental raising about the urbanistic intervention proposed but ha Vila Viva and the favela mobilization and debate process around the matter; it was also used the participant observation technique, together with semistructured interviews with eight women in removal process, held mainly in the public spaces of the community. The results and analysis of the research point to a production of invisibilities in relation to the location of women in the participation spaces in the city, due to a disregard of urbanistic theories of gender inequalities, that end producing intensifying effects in the “poverty feminilization”, specially, in the favela dwellers. Another reflection points to the reiteration and reproduction of the space exclusion produced over the favela and its dwellers due to the action of urbanization public policies compromised with the market management logics and city space production that end up impeding the access, the inclusion, the permanence and the participation of the favela dwellers in the formal town.