SOCIO-SPATIAL FRAGMENTATION THROUGH EVERYDAY LIFE: ANALYSIS FROM SPATIAL PRACTICES OF INHABITANTS OF MARABÁ-PA (BRAZIL)

Abstract

 In the last decades, socio-spatial fragmentation, has been an active process in Latin-American cities. Numerous proposals which embraced it, refer, more often than not, to a new urban organization whose form is constituted by fragments each time less connected each other. Notwithstanding the large scope of the debate, some difficulties still remain in terms of its conceptual definition as well as its empirical analysis. The aim of this article is to contribute to a greater explaining precision of socio-spatial fragmentation, by approaching it through the everyday life. The starting hypothesis postulate that from the everyday life, fragmetation is understandable in a broader complexity. To do this, we try to look beyond its visible and formal aspects. In methodological terms, this proposal takes the city of Marabá (Brazil) as a case of study, in which has been realized a field research and applied several profound interviews with inhabitants. Analysed trough the everyday life, socio-spatial fragmentation finally emerges at different scales, in contradiction between representations and spatial practices, and in social relationships which contributes to sewing the life, adding details and nuances to their specific ruptures.