DSpace Coleção:https://repositorio.uema.br/jspui/handle/123456789/21792026-07-21T10:43:53Z2026-07-21T10:43:53ZA organização popular do espaço público: uma análise a partir da experiência do Comitê da Praça das Arvores no complexo Cohab Cohatrac em São Luís do Maranhãohttps://repositorio.uema.br/jspui/handle/123456789/62922026-07-10T12:46:28Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTítulo: A organização popular do espaço público: uma análise a partir da experiência do Comitê da Praça das Arvores no complexo Cohab Cohatrac em São Luís do Maranhão
Abstact: The use of public space involves a complexity of perceptions that go beyond the urban
dimension and permeate the construction of social and political relationships. From
this perspective, a study was developed on the popular organization of public space:
an analysis based on the experience of the tree square committee in the Cohab-
Cohatrac complex in São Luís do Maranhão, with the aim of analyzing the dynamics
of action constituted in the free public space organized based on the experience of the
Praça das Árvores Committee in the COHAB-COHATRAC Complex, such as the
collective uses and appropriations on the floor of the square, conceived as a place of
multiple meanings that redesign this urban space, since the square is a place of
contradictions and antagonisms. For this, the bibliographical research methodology
was used, combined with field research through participant observation, photographic
records, documentary analysis and testimonials from its “users”. The aforementioned
study approached the theme based on the experience of the construction process of
the Praça das Árvores Committee after the urban planning qualification, which raised
questions about the implications of the institutionalization process of the
aforementioned committee on political and community autonomy, pointed out in the
dynamics of usufruct in the everyday life in this urban socio-community scenario. This
study took historical and dialectical materialism from a Marxist perspective as its
theoretical-methodological contribution. As a result of the research, it was found that
institutional interventions are impacted by community action in urban production, or
even how these actions impact the autonomy of the popular committee2023-01-01T00:00:00ZVerticalização urbana em São Luís: produção urbana do capital, marco regulatório e espaço construídohttps://repositorio.uema.br/jspui/handle/123456789/62842026-07-20T18:55:23Z2025-10-30T00:00:00ZTítulo: Verticalização urbana em São Luís: produção urbana do capital, marco regulatório e espaço construído
Abstact: This dissertation analyzes the unfolding of the verticalization process in São Luís–MA from historical, political, institutional, and economic perspectives. The study is grounded in the central hypothesis that verticalization in São Luís is neither a neutral phenomenon nor merely the result of demographic transformations or technological innovations; rather, it constitutes a strategy of land valorization and capitalist accumulation that shapes urban space according to the interests of dominant classes. The research achieved its objectives by
understanding verticalization as an instrument of capitalist urban production, highlighting its global origins and dissemination. The process is interpreted as a manifestation of political and economic forces, thus transcending the purely technical dimension of construction. In addressing the regulatory framework, the study examined the historical development of urban legislation (Master Plans and Zoning Laws of 1975, 1981, 1992, 2006, and 2023), demonstrating how the legal apparatus has been progressively flexibilized to legitimize and promote selective verticalization in areas of high interest to real estate capital. An evaluation of the built environment was also conducted. A detailed typomorphological study was carried out in the area with the highest concentration of vertical development in the city. The analysis reveals that the resulting urban form—characterized by
homogeneous towers, large setbacks, privatized ground floors, and high-density gated enclaves—constitutes a model of distinction and socio-spatial segregation. The study demonstrates that the vertical landscape in São Luís is established as a symbol of power, resulting in the commodification of urban land and the
fragmentation of the urban fabric. Urban legislation operates as the primary agent in shaping the built environment, serving as an instrument aligned with the interests of hegemonic urban ideologies and dominant social classes. This research contributes to the debate by uncovering the mechanisms through which
the city is hierarchized, offering insights for urban planning aimed at fostering a less unequal metropolis. In its materiality, verticalization in São Luís emerges as a visible expression of the contradiction between the discourse of progress and the reproduction of structural inequalities2025-10-30T00:00:00Z(RE)Significação da velhice no cenário neoliberal: direito ou um fardo social?https://repositorio.uema.br/jspui/handle/123456789/62372026-07-01T18:16:24Z2025-08-12T00:00:00ZTítulo: (RE)Significação da velhice no cenário neoliberal: direito ou um fardo social?
Abstact: The present study primarily aims to analyze the implications of the Social Assistance Policy for
old age, considering the living conditions of elderly people residing in the Itaqui-Bacanga
Region who are served by the CRAS Anjo da Guarda. Based on the method of historicaldialectical
materialism, the study starts from the conception of old age and aging as a social
category that is not limited to biological factors but is influenced by various determinants that
shape a given social reality. Using the sociability of capital as a reference, it is discussed that
the stages of human life come to be interpreted from a productivist perspective, in which the
value of the individual is defined according to their ability to meet the demands of capital. Thus,
those who lose this utility suffer from exclusion and marginalization processes generated by this
system, as is the case with elderly people, which creates the need for mechanisms aimed at
protecting this stage of life. In Brazil, specifically, protection systems aimed at this population
only began to be incorporated more comprehensively with the Federal Constitution of 1988,
which recognizes the rights of the elderly, including the right to Social Assistance. However, it
is argued that the consolidation of this right as a public policy takes place in an adverse context,
marked by the advance of the neoliberal project, which has implications for its implementation
and, consequently, for the lives of its users. This perspective is analyzed through the specificities
of the elderly people assisted by the CRAS Anjo da Guarda, one of the PAS units in the Itaqui-
Bacanga Region, where the field research was conducted. The study showed that, despite the
significant impacts of this policy on the social, physical, and emotional development of elderly
people, there are also difficulties in the delivery of services, related to the reduction of State
action in social areas. This reveals that, often, investment in this field is seen as a cost, which
reflects the socially constructed meaning attributed to old age.2025-08-12T00:00:00ZOrganização e resistência na luta dos trabalhadores rurais da Comunidade do Cajueiro, em face do processo de implantação do TUP/Porto São Luís-MAhttps://repositorio.uema.br/jspui/handle/123456789/60612026-04-24T18:17:25Z2022-03-30T00:00:00ZTítulo: Organização e resistência na luta dos trabalhadores rurais da Comunidade do Cajueiro, em face do processo de implantação do TUP/Porto São Luís-MA
Abstact: This dissertation presents a reflection and analysis on industrial development projects
in the Cajueiro community located in the Rural Zone II of São Luís, Maranhão,
highlighting changes in the territorial dynamics of the community under study, as well
as discussing the organization and resistance of this community in the face of actions
of developmental projects. Specifically, it has been shown that this century-old
community lives essentially from extractivism, agriculture and the creation of small
animals and, since 2014, it has been experiencing a socio-territorial struggle and a
great confrontation on the part of its workers against the installation of the TUP Porto
São Luís, represented by the company WPR São Luís Gestão de Portos e Terminais
and the chinese company China Communications Construction Company. It was also
highlighted the installation of industrial projects under the dynamics of capital and its
implications in disputes over land. The logic of capital in peripheral countries and the
development policy in Brazil were contextualized from the 1950s to the 1980s, focusing
on the role of the State and the market in relation to these policies. The action of
industrial projects was addressed, as well as the port expansion in the Cajueiro
community, from projects financed by federal and transnational funds that disregard
the way of life and cultural diversity, in addition to the right of these workers to land.
Changes in the way of life and working conditions of rural workers in the Cajueiro
community were also analyzed in view of the prospect of implementing the private port.
The discussion focused on the organization and resistance of rural workers in Brazil,
highlighting the forms of expression of working-class consciousness. Finally, the
struggle of the Cajueiro community in its political consciousness movements was
analyzed, highlighting its organizational and resistance forms and strategies in the
struggle for land as a condition for survival. There is, political organization in this
context is the expression of workers in the face of the conflict generated by capital.
This study is based on the historical-dialectical materialist method, having as reference
the bibliographic and documental research, to understand the central categories and
their implications in the concrete reality, precisely in the Cajueiro community2022-03-30T00:00:00Z