Empobrecimento e inclusão social: vida urbana e pobreza na cidade de Uberlândia/MG (1980-2004)

Abstract

This study follows transformations in the living at Uberlândia, between 1980 and 2004. These changes had occurred in reason of some conjunctures that had evidenced the fight for the right for city and the debates on the hunger as a new historical phenomena, making the poverty and the poor persons be under focus in the politician, social city horizon. At this aspect, the local newspaper Correio had functioned as intersection point and it had worked as ideas spreading and explanations for the existence, permanence and visibility reached by the poverty in the urban life. Among the possible explanations, it had surfaced notions as ignorance , disdain for the cultural goods and values, propensity to the high natality and predisposition to the alcohol and drugs. The analyses of these notions had been seen as class fight expression inside on a cultural dynamics that determined a place at the social one to the poor persons. In this direction, the research consider ways by which the public power had intervined in the unpolitization and disarrangement of the fights implemented for the poor persons in the city, concretized in implementation and regulation of financial support distribution politics. Thus, this study aims to understand memories and histories produced in this transformation process, attempting for ways by wich the public politics had contributed to the ordinance and poverty senses construction during those years. By means of the verbal narratives, we aims to understand how the beneficiaries had lived, experienced and elaborated consciences on the tensions and relations firmed with religious, givers and public service agents, tensions and relations that had been translated to behavior ways and expectations on the future