Nas epistemologias da Geografia: Tecendo as amarras da violência urbana em Ituiutaba (MG)

Abstract

This thesis analyzes urban violence in the municipality of Ituiutaba (MG) based on the geographical epistemological stigmatizations of the Centro, Natal and Nova Ituiutaba I-IV neighborhoods, based on the notion of the history of class struggles for social and economic rights, through oppression socioeconomic aspect of capitalist society that reinforces individualism, colonialism, prejudice and social discrimination between classes. In this sense, this work, through a vision of anti-colonial Geography, intends to bring to light, through the use of semi-structured interviews carried out with city dwellers in the neighborhoods, the main characteristics of daily life in Ituiutaba, regarding the feeling of urban insecurity, aiming to understand the most noticeable forms and types of violence in the city, according to the critical view of its residents. Secondly, semi-structured interviews were also carried out with representatives of local public authorities to understand in more detail these aspects of urban violence. This thesis starts from the understanding, in the first chapter, of the theoretical definitions of violence thought from Geography. In the second chapter, it portrays the incidence of crime and violence through reflections on space, power and Brazilian territory based on the advancement of crime today. Chapter three analyzes the epistemologies of geography based on the constraints of urban violence in Ituiutaba (MG).To this end, the thesis dialogues, in the light of dialectical historical materialism, with themes related to Urban Geography, Anticolonial Geography and Human Geography, aiming to achieve a dialectical interpretation of the process of urban violence experienced and its multiplicity of sociopolitical forms and interactions. Therefore, the importance of this thesis lies in the epistemological organization and geographical analysis of the social role of the working class, inserted in the city, which sometimes has little use for the right to access, reinforcing the mechanisms that maintain everyday inequalities. The methodology used was based on readings of bibliographies on the subject, on the analysis of the discourse present in interviews with city dwellers in the neighborhoods and representatives of local public authorities, associated with the empirical experience of the researcher in Ituiutaba (MG).