masterThesis
Em terra de especulação a expropriação é lei: uma análise do avanço do capital imobiliário na Vila de Ponta Negra, em Natal/RN
Fecha
2019-08-20Registro en:
SILVA, Raquel Cardozo da. Em terra de especulação a expropriação é lei: uma análise do avanço do capital imobiliário na Vila de Ponta Negra, em Natal/RN. 2019. 181f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Serviço Social) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.
Autor
Silva, Raquel Cardozo da
Resumen
The dissertation presented here deals with expropriation in the Vila de Ponta Negra
(Natal-RN) as a central point of analysis. The field in question has important
particularities that give relevance to the study because it is in this environment that
we can analyze the phenomena of primary expropriation and the transformation of
the space. Such phenomena not only refer to the conversion of the old Vila de Ponta
Negra from agricultural to urban areas but also into its transformation into one of the
most lucrative territories for real estate, financial and tourism capital investments.
These, along with the state, now expropriate working class rights in order to expand
their profit. In this sense, the research proposes a historical description of the
process of occupation of the Ponta Negra neighborhood and the particularities of the
Vila de Ponta Negra that is inserted there. Likewise, the research aims to apprehend
and analyze the strategies of expropriation of real estate capital and the living
conditions, work and political participation of its residents. Therefore questions were
raised concerning the valuation of space and how much the exchange value of
housing for capital overlaps with the utility value. Also noteworthy are the
contradictions of the right to the city in its formal and legislative perspective, as it
conflicts with the right to private property of the land, guaranteed by the state and
hegemonically controlled by the elites. Such contradictions are reflected in the daily
life of the residents of the Vila de Ponta Negra since, as one of the results of the
research, it was possible to detect that they had their lands and properties
expropriated. As a result of that was the compulsory change of profession and the
whole dynamic in the method of production and reproduction of their lives. In
addition, as a result of the study, there is the collection of data that indicates the
permanence of this people in the disputed territory, as well as the continuity of a
singular culture that becomes synonymous with challenge, struggle and resistance.
All the data raised by the research were examined in the light of a critical theoretical
framework, namely historical and dialectical materialism, whose structuring concepts
and perspective of interpretation of reality greatly contributed to the understanding of
tensions and disputes in and through that space. In conclusion, the study found that
the transformations that come with urbanization reflect the class struggle and the
logic of the ruling class that has operated in front of and at the expense of collective
law with multiple consequences. However the city pulsates for a radical
transformation and the overcoming of capitalist sociability.