All Rights ReservedMarostica Stroher, Laisa Eleonora2025-02-042025-02-042016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2555Proceedings 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 southThis paper is aimed at generating a deeper understanding of how the territorial intervention and organization of the Brazilian State, at multiple scales, has been shaped – especially from the 1990s onwards – in function of projects and strategies that are increasingly articulated with interests of (public and private) agents (alike) that operate within the real-estate/financial complex1. Besides, we aim to discuss the challenges that these changes have generated for the Brazilian agenda of Urban Reform. The underlying hypothesis is that this agenda has distanced itself from the original right-based approach, and has increasingly been filled in according to a project of financialization and competitiveness. Brazilian Urban Reform represents an arena that is contested by actors that strive to fill it in according to their own (frequently conflicting) projects. The starting point is to review the (inter)national debates on the “financialization of space”2, and explore possible connections with State Spatial Theory as developed by Neil Brenner and others. As known, the latter approach was framed around an articulation between historical and geographical materialism – Harvey and Lefebvre, among others – and state relational theory according to Jessop and others.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject568-572