Desenvolvimento e contradições no bairro do Coroadinho em São Luís – MA: análise materialista – histórica e socioespacial desde sua ocupação aos dias atuais

Abstract

The sociospatial construction of precariousness lives side by side with more developed regions where the dominant and capital class lives. This premise is historically verifiable in peripheral countries such as Brazil and northeastern cities such as São Luís do Maranhão that has seen several of its neighborhoods emerge from irregular land occupations. This was the case with the "Bairro" of Coroadinho that appeared in São Luís in the 1970s from the migration of people from other states and regions of Maranhão. Because it is an occupation initially said "irregular", it did not have the attention of the state in public policies aimed at development, and for decades suffered from neglect and forgetfulness of the State, forcing residents to survive in a place with precarious living conditions. Therefore, this work has as main objective to analyze the issue of development in Coroadinho since its emergence and formation, seeking in historical materialism the determinants of the social construction of this region and to carry out a today and real analysis from a socio-spatial and economic perspective of this region, given the public policies that have been promoted in recent years. The capitalist system will be studied and critically analyzed seeking to clarify its contradictions, as well as the theories of development and its relationship with liberalism and neoliberalism and especially new theories that address human development sustainable beyond economic bias. As methodological procedures, we used bibliographic and field research, applied and with a qualitative approach, using the scientific method of Dialectical Historical Materialism. As for the results of the research, it is verified that the few actions of the State represented through specific and non-frequent public policies in the Crowndo do not meet the definitions of development studied in this study.