("R)esistir" no Jardim Itatinga laços entre sujeitos e espaço urbano

It is in the city of Campinas-SP where Jardim Itatinga is located, a space that constitutes the object of study of this thesis.Placed between the roads Santos Dumont and Bandeirantes, at 11 km away from the city center, that neighborhood was built in the decade of 1960s by the political power of Campinas, based on a project of urban hygienization.Tenements were demolished, houses of prostitution were closed, and the prostitutes who lived and worked in the areas deemed noble, which means spaces urban and economically valued, were taken to the limits of the city.Between 2016 and 2017, I conducted interviews with men and women residents, male and female workers and salespeople of Jardim Itatinga; my interest laid on the everyday relationships that happen in that space.Based on these interviews, which, thus, comprise the corpus of this study, I raise the question: what are the bonds that intertwine subjects and the Jardim Itatinga neighborhood, and by which means those subjects (r)esist?It is in the conditions of production of a neighborhood created by the Estate to be the place of prostitution in the city, in a political space, historically and geographically segregated, a place of residence and work for almost two thousand prostitutes, home and workplace for many other people, that the social relationships get close and interwoven.Thus, aiming to understand how those bonds are constituted, I analyze the foundational discourse, which perpetuates a history of confinement of the prostitution in the city, questioning about the modes of slippage in the discourse.I also seek to understand how subjects and meanings move in the conditions of production of the Jardim Itatinga neighborhood, whereby the analysis of the designations house [of family], house [of prostitution], housekeeper, brothel-keeper (in Portuguese, housewife or househusband of a house of prostitution, its managers).I consider the ellipsis a crack in language that makes possible the meeting with history, allowing the transit of meanings and the inscription of the subjects; I also consider that the space, in its material composition, signifies and is signified by the subjects through the relationship they establish with this place of existence, coexistence, dwelling, and work.In Jardim Itatinga, the urban form privileges the public space, which is why the street, in its equivocal functioning, is a point of analytical entrance.The public space, in Jardim Itatinga, produces meanings in the tension between the memory of historical-political-ideological exclusion embedded in the city and the different practices of usage of this space.Likewise, "work" is considered as one of the analytical approaches, once it is one of the fundamental bonds among subjects and space.I arrive at the everyday life gaps that make possible for the subject to (r)esist in Jardim Itatinga.I emphasize that the interviews are composed of lives

Public space · Urban space · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

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  Open Access•Maria Aparecida Lemos•RUA•2025

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