Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2014)
QUESTÃO URBANA E AMBIENTAL EM TEMPOS DE CRISE DO CAPITAL: configurações e particularidades no Brasil contemporâneo
Abstract
This paper aims to discuss the nexus between capital crisis, urban and environmental issue, questioning the subordinate position of Brazil in the process of globalization with dominance of finance, the contradictions that characterize these processes and, in particular, its impact on the contemporary cities . Stirs up the class struggle, expressed in various forms of ownership and urban land use. In this scenario disputes, the forms of struggle and opposition to the unbridled accumulation of capital can be still considered punctual and small scale, but show resistance forms, that may generate emancipatory movements.