Gestão democrática e participação popular: a construção de sujeitos e a busca pelo direito à cidade

Abstract

The present work aims to accomplish a reflection in regards to the planning processes and participatory management, in the scope of public municipal power, seeking to evaluate its capacity of subject formation. It has as a starting point the conquered participatory processes and guaranteed from legal outline contained in the Urban Policy Chapter of the Federal Constitution of 1988 e detailed in its regulation through Federal Law 10.257/2001, the City Statute. Therefore, aims to contribute to an observation over the participatory processes while possibility of subject transformation and citizenship enlargement, using as a case study the city of Contagem and the II Municipal Conference on Urban Policy, held in 2010 aiming to revise the Master Plan. Initially presents the city and, also seeking out the contextualization with the historical moment of the country, describes how a considerable part of the population was historically excluded of the political decisions that affect the collectivity and how the planning actions implemented by the State (or their absence) resulted in the current urban structure and the unequal distribution of resources and benefits of the city to its citizens. In sequence, points some thoughts about the participatory processes, their possibilities and limitations, based in analysis and criticism presented to the ideas of Urban Reform focusing in three elements: the State, the social movements and the social scene in which the participation develops. Revisits the legal frameworks governing the realization of participatory processes planning and urban management and describes the Municipal Conferences on Urban Policy carried out in Contagem. From interviews conducted with the participants of the II Conference, makes notes about how the subjects perceive the participatory processes and how they position in relation to themselves and searches to weave a reflection about the understanding of civil society acting inside the instances of participation.