A cidade legal e ilegal: modos de habitar na constituição de territórios periféricos de Pelotas

Abstract

This study aims to comprehend the ways of living the city since the daily life of the groups that live in the urban shores and at the margins of the State instituitions. These groups are not found in the representations and in the officials narratives about the city. It was realized an ethnographic study in an unofficial village located in the Três Vendas neighborhood, city of Pelotas, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A context marked by many processes of exclusion and by an informal urbanization. The objective of this study is to capture how the city is invented since the shores, by the multiples daily situations lived by the its inhabitants. This study uses as a central category of analysis the ways of living, articulating the concepts of collective memory, among-places, frontier, territory, territoriality and specified contexts. The purpose of this study is to submit to the globalizing and normative perspective of city the particularized and contextualized experience of the groups that invent and live the city with the aim of thinking about the city in historical, processual and relational terms. This study is a epistemologic decolonization in the production of knowledge about the ways of living the peripheric territories in the anthropologic work together with the public politics.