Territory, sociability, and conflict in a squatter settlement: the case of Poço da Draga, Fortaleza-Brazil
| dc.contributor.author | Gondim, Linda Maria | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Marilia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-09T11:57:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-09T11:57:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The article discusses narratives that express territoriality and borders, mediated by relations of sociability and conflict in Poço da Draga, a squatter settlement located in Fortaleza, capital of Ceará, in Northeast Brazil. Data were collected through intensive field work in progress since 2014. In the settlement - called "favela" in technical studies and "community" by the locals - live about two thousand people, most descended from fishermen and workers in the old port area of Fortaleza. There, embarkation and disembarkation of passengers and goods were done through a dock, called Ponte Metálica, up to mid-1940s, when Mucuripe harbor was built in another part of the coast. The community has been affected by several interventions of the government, especially since the 1990s: construction of a waterfront, the Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture and, more recently, the Acquario Ceará - not counting projects of city and the State government that were not carried forward, such as the 24 Hours Street and a Convention Center (OLIVEIRA, 2006; GONDIM, 2008). In all these cases, Poço da Draga dwellers were threatened to be evicted, either by providing for their direct removal, or by expulsion as a result of real estate speculation. Thus, this dwelling place appears as a territory in the sense that it is the subject of disputes for political, social and economic control (Raffestin, 1993); but it is also a place full of symbolism and mediator of personal relations, involving the making and remaking of borders and territoriality. This last category refers not just to a fixed product as a territory, but to an ability to create internal spatial differences in the community. Different territorialities point for both feelings of belonging and acceptance, and feelings of fear and prohibition, referring to some sites of Poço da Draga as "hazardous". The sense of belonging and the memory of places are emphasized during guided tours promoted during celebrations of Poço da Draga anniversaries. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 988-990 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2078 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Territory, sociability, and conflict in a squatter settlement: the case of Poço da Draga, Fortaleza-Brazil | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |