Germinar territórios de vida em contextos de luta por moradia : resistência e aquilombamento da Ocupação Vila Esperança
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2025-10-24
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Miranda, Guilherme Corrêa
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This dissertation proposes to accompany processes of aquilombamento that germinate from existence and resistance within the context of an urban occupation and the struggle for housing. To this end, we seek to operate with an expanded conception of aquilombamento , drawing particularly on the contributions of Beatriz Nascimento and Abdias do Nascimento, who offer critiques of the hegemonic historiographical conception that attributes to the quilombos a strictly archaeological condition, fixed in the past. Thus, through this broadening, we aim to weave threads of connection between aquilombamento territories and housing occupations, in light of the delineation of the categories of affection, care, and ancestral wisdom. The Vila Esperança Occupation is the territory where this research unfolds. Located in the municipality of Vila Velha, part of the Metropolitan Region of Greater Vitória (RMGV) in the state of Espírito Santo, the occupation began in 2017. Due to the high housing deficit, combined with the health crisis caused by Covid-19, the occupation expanded, sheltering approximately 800 families by 2025, according to residents’ reports. Situated on an extensive plot surrounded by environmental preservation areas, the occupation faces the pressures of an intense land conflict in the region. Indeed, the entanglement of the forces of the State, the real estate market, and the judicial system imposes a grammar of violence materialized through police repression, real estate financial capital, and legal discourse — all working toward the eviction of residents from the self-built and occupied territory. In this sense, the analyses presented here focus on the period of intensification of the territorial dispute, resulting from the judicial decision ordering the population’s eviction. Through a participatory methodological approach centered on the processes that germinate from/in the lived ground — that is, the relations that make it possible to sustain a living territory — we seek to give shape to the aquilombamento processes cultivated during critical moments of attack and dismantling, as well as during the reclaiming of Vila Esperança, following the Supreme Federal Court (STF) decision to suspend the repossession order. Furthermore, grounded in the experience of Vila Esperança, we highlight the importance of occupations as spaces of belonging and protection in the face of capitalist-colonialist logics of urban production
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Aquilombamento , Ocupação urbana , Luta por moradia , Território , Direito à cidade , Urban occupation , Struggle for housing , Territory , Right to the city