A Recent Sociological Utopia of Urban Space in Brazil

Authors

  • Fraya Frehse

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.12.2012.45.103-117

Keywords:

Urban studies, Urban space, Representation, Sociology, Brazil, 20th-21st Century, Estudos urbanos, Espaço urbano, Representação, Sociologia Brasil, Séculos xx-xxi

Abstract

 Abstract

 

The alleged conceptual parsimony of Brazilian urban studies as of the 1980s is addressed by focusing on sociological conceptualizations of urban space in Brazil. These only seldom bring to the fore the ways in which Brazilian cities and/or metropolises differ from the North American and European urban contexts that inspire these theoretical conceptualizations. This becomes clear by pursuing from a Lefebvrian standpoint the sociological representations of urban space in the recent Brazilian debate (1998-2008) – thus disclosing a specific utopia implicit in this research.

 

Resumo

 

Este paper problematiza a suposta parsimônia conceitual dos estudos urbanos brasileiros da década de 1980 em diante enfocando as conceituações sociológicas de espaço urbano no Brasil. É raro que essas revelem diferenças das cidades e/ou metrópoles brasileiras em relação aos contextos norte-americanos e europeus que costumam inspirar tais conceituações em termos teóricos. Basta rastrear, na perspectiva teórico-metodológica lefebvriana, as representações sociológicas de espaço urbano no debate brasileiro recente (1998-2008). Revela-se assim que uma utopia bem específica permeia tais pesquisas.

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Vol. 12 No. 45 (2012)

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