Entre as fronteiras do morar e o direito de decidir: uma etnografia das famílias removidas da Vila da Paz na cidade de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The present manuscript aims to present a doctoral research, which consists of an ethnography about families living in the Peace Village in process of removal of the Ring Road of Belo Horizonte, for duplication of the same. For this, an ethnomethodological research was carried out, based on the interaction with the actors of the field, through ethnography and photoetnography. As a result we noticed that the residents of PeaceVillage have announced in their narratives ways of disobedience (FOUCAULT, 1982) and resistance to the housing offered by the Housing Policy of Belo Horizonte. This disobedience brings to the scene of the removal process the denial-creation movement that makes visible the social, urban, and economic fabrics of living that are important to the residents who resist reoccupying spaces and strengthening the built community bonds. Residents also live in situations of social suffering and violence, as there is a malaise produced by the lack of access to the right to housing and by wider historical processes of exclusion. Like the Village of Peace, the city is permeated by webs of meanings, and its peripheral areas are formed by a circuit of spatial and socio-political resistance.