"RIGHT TO THE CITY AND GENDER: women from the Sonho Real to the Real Conquista in Goiânia/GO".
Right to the city; right to adequate housing; gender inequalities; urban occupations; Right Found on the
Street.
This research aims to investigate the relationship between the right to the city and gender and, in perspective, to analyze the experience and daily life of women who participated in an urban occupation in Goiânia/Goiás and currently live in the residential housing intended for families who have gone through the violent process of eviction. It is questioned what are the narratives and perceptions of the women who participated in the Sonho Real Occupation in Goiânia/GO, which took place from 2004 to 2005, and who currently live in the Residencial Real Conquista, in the aforementioned capital, about access to the right to the city and to adequate housing criteria in the new area. In addition, it is verified whether these subjects develop their own social practices that are related to the struggle for the right to the city. There is, therefore, a focus on the possible challenges faced by these women and struggles for the right to the city that were or are being fought in the new place of residence. In addition, the historical-social contextualization of the Sonho Real Occupation, the eviction and subsequent journeys is also carried out based on the reports of these women, in dialogue with other sources on the subject. As a methodology, there was a bibliographic review and a case study with empirical research, with an interdisciplinary perspective, as well as the use of Law Found on the Street as a theory of Law. The bibliographic review focused on the themes of the right to the city, the right to adequate housing, gender inequalities, intersectionality and Law Found on the Street. In turn, with regard to the field research, it was carried out at the Residencial Real Conquista, from the contact with residents of the neighborhood, who also participated in the Ocupação Sonho Real. There were semi-structured interviews in conversation circles, as well as participant observation. The research revealed that there is a dominant conception of the construction of cities guided by a market logic, which is also permeated by gender inequalities, having the sexual division of labor (and reproductive work) as one of its pillars. In this scenario, marked by contradictions and denials of rights, women - mainly black and peripheral - are more impacted by the needs in the urban space and are the majority in the struggles for the right to adequate housing and the right to the city. In the case of Ocupação Sonho Real, the vision of a city-merchandise also supported the eviction that culminated in several human rights violations, from the action of various actors and actresses that are described in this work. Life at Residencial Real Conquista was also marked by needs, emerging collective subjects of law that develop everyday social practices of resistance and are capable of instituting rights that involve the criteria of adequate housing and the construction of the Right to the City.