Estudo dos processos de territorialização-desterritorialização-reterritorialização e exclusão de um território com duas faces: O “Bairro Chiquinho Guimarães”, Montes Claros/MG

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the processes of territorialization-desterritorialization reterritorilization of 'Housing State' Chiquinho Guimarães, located in the southern city of Montes Claros and analyze it as an area of exclusion. These processes can be retracted in other communities that has characteristics of poverty or not, if they are formed by means of public policy with little or no planning and territorial organization. Such changes in social and urban spatial configuration has become possible to understand through the case study. We seek to discuss the processes of T-D-R 'Housing State’ from conception, implantation, until the year of 2008; diagnose the peculiarities and the factors surrounding that provided changes in this area to the point of being stigmatized as a territory of exclusion, to indicate some of the problems and possible solutions given by the residents. On the assumption that the Chiquinho Guimarães is an area of exclusion to the "outside", and also see if it is for the "inside", the residents. We made to the study bibliographic and survey research, through analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. The questions guiding the study are: how and when was the process of territorialization of ‘Housing State’ Chiquinho Guimarães? How and when were the processes of desreterritorializations? What were the changes in the neighborhood from the 1980s until the year 2008? What are the factors that brought these changes? Which consequences that the desreterritorializations of the district brought to the local population? It is considered an "area of exclusion" for its residents? They feel excluded (social and spatial) of montesclarense society? What actions could be accomplished in the district by the municipal government in the conception of the residents? If local people feel excluded, what they could do to reverse the situation and be allowed to feel included in a process of social development? This study contributes to understanding the changes in sociospatial southern periphery of the montesclarense urban space, and discuss the T-D-R process focusing on a neighborhood that has been divided between two socials actors: the set and slum. We verify that all went through four cases of T-D-R, between the decades of 1980 to 2008.To treat the 'Territory of Exclusion', we realize that although the residents of this neighborhood say they feel certain indifference in respect to the territory in which they live, they not feel excluded. Recognize that there are various sociospatial and economic problems in the set, however identifying reporting it always to 'my street' or 'my alley'. Although there is a sense of territoriality, we noticed that the individuality prevails and not the collectivity in this community.