"A comunidade do Maracanã na rota do processo de urbanização: os efeitos do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV) em São Luís"

Abstract

This work investigates the process of urban expansion of the city that has impacted the experiences in the traditional community of Maracanã, located in the rural area of São Luís, Maranhão, which has been suffering a series of socio-environmental problems resulting from the construction of sets of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program. The processes of devastation and population density in the Maracanã area produced a new order of conflicts, which reconfigured the space, bringing with it new challenges to the former residents of the Maracanã Community. This process has been conducted by the real estate sector with the consent of the government. The objective of this study is to reflect on the effects of the urbanization process under the aegis of housing policy conducted by the government and the real estate sector through the PMCMV about the Maracanã community. The problem question related to the field of research, which is to reflect on: what effects were produced by the urbanization process, driven by the PMCMV, on the Traditional Community of Maracanã? The research brings as a theoretical-methodological perspective the listening strategy, which consists of listening to the different voices involved in the processes that produce the changes, especially of the residents of the Community, as well as the Reflective Sociology, by Pierre Bourdieu, which proposes to unveil and understand ourselves as scientists, and then to unveil and understand the scientific environment in which we are inserted. Therefore, the traditional community of Maracanã faces the threats to its physical and cultural existence and, at the same time, reaffirms its way of life by denouncing the perversity of the neoliberal economic logic of the State