Espaços de resistência : a dialética da cidadania entre os conflitos sociais urbanos e os direitos emergentes

Abstract

Inserted into the critical perspective, without flaunting any concern with normative dogmatism, this research shows a connection between Marxism, contemporary social conflicts and the reflection on the legal recognition. With support in the dialectical materialist method, the approach aims to face the following issues: In what degree urban space interferences on the production, recognition and effectiveness of rights processes? To what extent it can be said that the exercise of active citizenship serves as a political force capable of driving the conformation of rules? To what extent is plausible to maintain that the city is the main stage of social conflicts in which there is an emergence of demands legally recognizable? Within the universe of perspectives that the topic could attract, this work started with the element that has greater immediacy to urban space: the person; linking her to the alleged failure of the dissolution of "social class" as an analytical framework. Dodging an incursion on a traditional history part, most often placed in a disconnected way to the object of study, it was decided to prepare an analysis of context-based investigation of everyday phenomena. Seeking to capture the contemporary vindicatory dynamic, this study discusses the contours of antiestablishment politics that unfolds in the urban space, emphasizing the issue of collective subjectivities (the abandonment of the proletarian mythologizing), as well as the role played by active minorities, taking as its individualization premise. As a consequence, raises the hypothesis to rethink the concept of human emancipation by making a lexical-semantic gap to unite the spraying of social demands that emerge in daily urban capitalism, making it blunts the factual possibility of the existence partial emancipation. In summary, intends to carry out a study concerned with emancipatory social practices that, somehow, can contribute to the understanding of the normative production mechanism that has as its source the exercise of active insurgent citizenship with some charge of disobedience.