O espaço do Estado no neoliberalismo: elementos para uma redefinição crítica

Abstract

This paper engages in the current debate around the neoliberal city, bringing theoreticalconceptual elements for a reassessment of neoliberalism as a mode of capitalist regulation centered on the state, not defined by its weakening, but by its restructuring towards a new format of state strength. We propose that this repositioning brings important consequences for the relations between the state and the production of space, also evaluated through reinterpretations of the economic as an effect of the political/bureaucratic, and not its opposite. Departing from readings on the genesis of neoliberal political thought, the paper also approaches the contemporary literature on biopolitics, on the exercise of power through mechanisms of disciplining and the assemblage of subjectivities, culminating in the lefebvrean interpretation of state-space relations, finally pointing towards transformations that arise from the strengthening of the neoliberal state apparatus in the production of space.