Cosmophobic City?

A Counter-Colonial Critique of Capitalist Urbanization

Authors

  • Gabriel Eidelwein Silveira Unipampa / PPGS-UFPI
  • Tamires Eidelwein Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI/Santo
  • Osmar Veronse Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI/Santo Ângelo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1678-2593.2025v24n56.76092

Keywords:

Right to the city, Urban development, Counter-coloniality, Cosmophobia

Abstract

This theoretical essay reflects on the coloniality of capitalist urbanization, characterized by “cosmophobia”, which excludes other cultural ways of living, occupying space, and relating to the environment and the multiplicity of beings inhabiting it. Drawing on the concepts of Lefebvre (2001), Brenner (2018), and Nêgo Bispo (SANTOS, 2023), the text is divided into three parts. First, it discusses the formulation of the right to the city as resistance to neoliberal urbanization and critiques its instrumentalization by the logic of commodification and economic growth. Next, it differentiates between the decolonial scholar critique and the counter-colonial quilombola critique, while exploring the concept of colonization as formulated by Nêgo Bispo. Finally, it examines the counter-colonial critique of capitalist urban life offered by the quilombola thinker, distinguished by cosmophobia and disconnection.

 

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Author Biographies

Tamires Eidelwein, Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI/Santo

Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI/Santo Ângelo.

Doutoranda em Direito. Bolsista PROSUC/CAPES. Advogada. 

Membra do Grupo de Pesquisa Direitos de Minorias, Movimentos Sociais e Políticas Públicas. 

E-mail: tamidarosa@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-1746

 

Osmar Veronse, Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI/Santo Ângelo.

Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI/Santo Ângelo.

Professor do PPGDireito. Procurador da República/MPF.

 Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Direitos de Minorias, Movimentos Sociais e Políticas Públicas. 

E-mail: osmarveronese@gmail.com http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9927-72

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Published

2025-10-01

How to Cite

EIDELWEIN SILVEIRA, Gabriel; EIDELWEIN, Tamires; VERONSE, Osmar. Cosmophobic City? A Counter-Colonial Critique of Capitalist Urbanization. Prim@ Facie - Law, History and Politics, [S. l.], v. 24, n. 56, 2025. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1678-2593.2025v24n56.76092. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/primafacie/article/view/76092. Acesso em: 2 jun. 2026.

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