As (in)constâncias da urbe selvagem

Abstract

This thesis discusses the place of the Amazon urbanization in the global social space, from the hypothesis that the constant reactivation of pre-existing forms and the border state of the region is leading to subordination and destruction of forms and pre-existing forms and contents during the process of capital advance. The theoretical reflection on the collective reproduction and the need of exploring alternative ways beyond the perspective of domination is what fueled the empirical research, in turn, organizing the structure of the work. From the city, the research held a multiscale experience, from the municipal seat to other urban manifestations in the Brazilian Amazon. São Félix do Xingu study, originated from an old riverside town in southeast Pará, is the locality selected to the study. The thesis analyzes the construction of urban history, the contribution of the different social trajectories for the formation of the frontier and their representations, from data obtained in the national and local press, in census information and research field with interviews and observations. The results of this process show the need to understand the urban that is beyond the city to the seizure of the Amazonian city space. It still show that the frontier perspective like a the territory of precariousness is in the media and in census data, but it reveal, by the proximity given in the field research, the urgency to see their (in) constancies as an element able to build the new since the Brazilian Amazon, place of multiple rationalities.