Poder e território na geografia: agentes territoriais locais e os Crimes Violentos Letais Intencionais (2013-2017) no bairro Cabanagem, Belém-PA

Abstract

The complexity of urban issue points to the worsening of violence in the Metropolitan Region of Belém (MRB) peripheries since violence appears in several ways, however, homicides, robbery-homicides and bodily injury followed by death are the most serious forms. They are often related to several factors in the consolidation and expansion of the Primary territorial agents territoriality, defined here as: traffickers, militiamen and the State, that use power relations to affirm extremely worrying trend scenarios, which has led, year by year, to the growth of Intentional Lethal Violent Crimes (ILVC) rates. In fact, new territorialities emerge from nexuses with the Primary territorial agents territorialization. Thus, by recognizing the presence of territorial agents in Cabanagem neighborhood, this investigation starts from the following questioning: How do the Primary territorial agents influence the increase in occurrences of Intentional Lethal Violent Crimes in Cabanagem neighborhood, in Belém-PA, from 2013 to 2017? We start from the idea that the actions of the Primary territorial agents, based on disputes over territories, explain the increase in violent deaths in the studied neighborhood. Therefore, the main objective of this Master's Dissertation was to investigate the dynamics of the Primary territorial agents and the relationship with Intentional Lethal Violent Crimes (ILVC) from 2013 to 2017. Thus, the methodology was based on dialectical and historical materialism, bibliographic review, documentary research with the Housing Company of the State of Pará (COHAB), field research with the collection of interviews, images and the use of Geoprocessing for the elaboration of thematic and situation maps. These methodological elements were fundamental in the construction of mechanisms to help us understand the space/time dynamics of space production and territorial dynamics, as well as the privilege of being part of the Geography Graduate Program (PPGEO) from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) was fundamental for the consolidation of the research, culminating in what has already been developed in the three chapters and in the final elaboration of the work.