Dispositivo urbanismo: entre a governamentalidade e a resistência

Abstract

From work spaces (pre-capitalist cities) through production spaces (industrial cities), until the current spaces of consumption and competition (neoliberal cities), what has been historically seen in our cities is a succession of agreements and alliances, which were made explicit (or not) under the form of plans and rules that, in most cases, end up promoting controlling practices of land use and occupation. In other words, an urbanism that does not perform as a democratic and emancipatory means of transformation of territory, but rather as a mechanism in the service of a governmental rationality or, according Foucault, of a "governmentality". The hypothesis highlighted in this article is that urbanism has been historically constituted as an apparatus that operates according to discursive and non-discursive practices and that has as its objective (or strategic function) the control and ordination of bodies on the territory - where one works, lives, circulates, consumes, etc.-, in order to ensure optimal economy for the populations. Therefore, the present work aims at this argument, having foulcaultian concepts as theoretical framework.