Cidades reivindicadas : emergência e difusão das ocupações culturais como forma de reivindicação do direito à cidade

Abstract

This research analyzes the process of emergence and diffusion of the claim for the right to the city in Sergipe between the years 2013 and 2020. More specifically, we investigate the logics of collective action, the networks of social movements and the militant careers linked to the agenda. Based on this, the theoretical bases used in this work aim to deepen three points. First, the processes of diffusion of collective action on two levels: the practical and the narrative. Thus, we analyze the ways in which the claim for the right to the city was performed and framed by different groups in their different contexts of action. Second, the construction and characterization of social movement networks. In this regard, we demonstrate how the consolidation of the claim for the right to the city enabled the emergence – among social movements, political parties, collectives and government administrations – of different mobilization networks. Third, the construction of militant careers based on the involvement of social actors in this type of mobilization, as well as the reconversion of the prestige accumulated in these spaces for the insertion of these activists in institutional positions or participation in political campaigns. The research conclusions point to how the combination between a context of crisis in the forms of collective action, in which one of the expressions concerns the June 2013 protests, and the strengthening of the right to the city agenda, also in that period, enabled the emergence of and the diffusion of cultural occupations in Sergipe. In this way, this work allows us to understand, in addition to the analyzed case, a set of changes in Brazilian activism in the last decade, such as the construction of models (in organizational spheres, of forms of engagement and action) alternative to traditional forms of collective action.