GENTRIFICATION AND NECROPOLITICS: an observation of the processes of violence and occupation of the city from the context of the São Pedro neighborhood of Chapecó - SC

Abstract

The analysis of conflicts and violence in a given society cannot be separated from the phenomena that create them, making collective identity and the historicity of the communal structure an integral part of social dynamics. The study of violence among children and adolescents in the municipality of Chapecó was the fact that generated the analysis of the processes of criminalization and the phenomenon of social urbanism and environmental qualification as instruments of social management, directing the investigation to the São Pedro neighborhood of Chapecó, both because of the historical-formative context and because of the prejudice installed by criminal stigmatization. By means of bibliographic surveys that made it possible to understand the historical formation of the community and journalistic publications about the field of study, together with the perceptions of members of the police [security] forces, we established as the research objective to understand the fabric in which relations of violence, vulnerability and spatial occupation develop in the connections between the right to the city and social management by the state and economic exploitation. We noticed a necropolitical tendency in the actions of the state and private enterprise — especially with speculative real estate activity — in controlling violence and a consequent process of gentrification, not resolving the conditions of vulnerability of the affected community but relocating poor housing and extending the processes of segregation to new frontiers of vulnerability.