FROM STRUCTURE TO BUREAUCRACTIC (RE)PRODUCTION: the social production of indifference in the process of removal of residents of the community Jardim Edith and Água Espraiada in São Paulo in the 1990s

Abstract

This article aims to discuss theoretical and hypothetical elements, until now reflected in ongoing research, on the social production of indifference inserted in the speeches of politi-cal projects of expansion or maintenance of capital. Within a  rationality, they reproduce and centralize the concern with economic growth under the protection of a collective wellness, but in the face of individual interests. In order to outline the context and operationalization of the process of expulsion of the residents of the Jardim Edith and Água Espraiada communities, we will start from the ethnographic data and interviews collected and presented in the work “Parceiros da Exclusão” by Mariana Fix. We can observe that the social production of indifference, promoted in three stages, is based on a conflict of interests and operated in the speech of the in-line workers, through a moral, to provoke the exit of the residents of the favelas for the expansion of the capital.