A (In)segurança urbana e as novas formas de morar em Dourados - MS

Abstract

Contemporary society has been marked by a propagation of speeches linked to urban (in)security. Not long ago such speeches were for metropolitan contexts; now, however, they gain strength in Middle Cities, or even in small towns, changing forms and contents of these sites, which are in constant sociospatial redefinition. The urban segmentation, made by relations marked by selectivity, individuality and stigmas to the other, is one of the main consequences of this situation. From this perspective, this work‟s aim was to identify and analyze how this dynamic has occurred in Dourados, the second largest city in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, especially in regard to the new ways of living. For this, we applied questionnaires to citizens, in an attempt to observe what their positions around violence and its impact on the city is. We collected, with the Informational System of Operational Management, official data in crime from 2006 to 2014. We selected articles in electronic journals in order to apprehend how the media has been working with this theme. We also interviewed residents of high closed residentials, medium and low standard with different enterprises in terms of building models and rules and control systems, which are released with maximum promotion of security and peace, strengthening the logic of "chaos" in the open city. As a result of our investigations, we‟ve confirmed (in)security as a factor that has been keeping people away from each other, imbuing the socio-spatial practices of control, tensions and aversion to others.