Cartografia das Controvérsias na região Lagoinha

Abstract

Under the influence of modern urban ideas, both speeches and spatial practices reveal socio-spatial segregation, hygienism and racial stigma as constituting behaviors of the initial Belo Horizonte territory. The Lagoinha region, considered a suburban area, has its formation imbricated to the origin of the planned city of Belo Horizonte through a historic process of gentrification and displacement of groups of greater social vulnerability (SILVA; PEREIRA, 2018; GUIMARÃES, 1992). Based on these considerations, the work seeks to reflect on the current territorial disputes that permeate the Lagoinha region, no longer considered peripheral, but strategically central and adjacent to the Center of Belo Horizonte, a fact that accentuates recent speeches in favor of its requalification, having in view of the urban degradation scenario. The image of abandonment in the region is strengthened in association with residential emptying, the high rate of scenes of use and the predominant occupation of public spaces by the homeless population and drug users. Thus, the research approach is aimed at reflecting on the intense proposition of urban plans, restructuring of urban space and reconfigurations of the landscape in association with the impacts of the removal processes of popular layers. At the same time, it seeks to map the urban public policies of greatest incidence in this complex territory, highlighting the axis of public health, social inclusion and participatory urban planning. The research aims to relate the multifaceted panorama of the Lagoinha region with possible developments regarding neoliberal spatial production and the rise of gentrification, the latter being understood as a phenomenon that is no longer sporadic and punctual, to become a true global strategy for colonization of the urban space (SMITH, 1979, 1996, 2002), systematically established by the cyclical movements of divestment and investment of financial capital in the built environment and through uneven geographical development (HARVEY, 1996, 2001, 2013). To this end, the dissertation seeks to operationalize the Indisciplinary Cartographic or Cartography of Controversies method (LOPES; RENA; SÁ, 2019) whose genealogical (FOUCAULT, 1988, 2006), rhizomatic and cross-scale aspect (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 1995) results in the elaboration of a timeline that exposes tensions in cataloged speeches and presents diagrams with strength lines and controversial groupings between human-actors and non-human actors, as adapted from the Theory-Actor-Network (TAR) (LATOUR, 2012). The application of the method seeks to reveal the simultaneous and controversial crossings that arise between the regulations of neoliberal policies, which emerged through flexibility between State, Capital and civil society and the various biopotent spatial practices (PELBART, 2003) that resist the advance of exclusive neoliberal urbanism.