A marginalização espacial no espaço urbano: o caso do bairro da união em Parintins-AM

Abstract

This paper presents analyzes concerning the practice of spatial marginalization, discussing it in its economic, political and cultural aspects. In this perspective the central objective of the work was to identify establishing weights on which the main factors that allow to characterize the district of the Union in Parintins-AM like marginalized. The research was based on the Historical Materialism and Dialectic Method, there was also a bibliographical survey with the intention of understanding the concept of spatial marginalization, field practice to study area to consolidate the methodological procedures used during the work: historical survey on production of the neighborhood through informal (free) conversations with residents, cataloging of the elements that contribute to the marginalization of the neighborhood with the help of a photographic camera and field book, in order to better understand the socio-spatial reality of the neighborhood, and questionnaires with geography students from all periods of the State University of Amazonas-CESP / UEA who do not reside in the neighborhood, but also with the residents themselves. The results of the research indicate that the neighborhood of the Union is already produced marginalized without any urban planning, and that this marginalization is perpetuated in the neighborhood currently on its three facets: economic, due to it reside low income families, unemployed; because of poor state assistance; and cultural by the various negative adjectives that he receives from the neighborhood that surrounds him with feelings of prejudice and discrimination.