From occupation to recapture

cartografando processos de subjetivação em território urbano

Abstract

Since the city cannot be understood dissociated from the production of subjectivity, this article aims to understand the phenomenon of modern urbanization as a socio-spatial unfolding of what Achille Mbembe calls Necropolitics: a power project coveted by the western capitalist, within which it canonizes the european subject as universal based on assumptions self-determined by race. Presenting a cartographic process in the insurgent daily life of the Baronesa Occupation, a territorial recapture located in one of the first black territories in the city of Porto Alegre, this article investigates the ordinary use of urban planning as a strategy to endorse genocide, ethnocide, and epistemicide against populations that cultivate different senses of territoriality. Inspired by Foucault's genealogy, this article seeks to examine history against the grain, focusing its gaze on where the clash of antagonistic forces is inevitable, revealing the controversial face of modern discourse, as well as the agencies that resist this capture and offer other horizons of subjectivation for urban planning outside the capitalist grammar. It will do this through an immersive journey through the territory that, in its course, has offered new epistemological paradigms to urban planning in the institutional and academic spheres and to the struggle for urban reform in the militant sphere.