Metropolitan expansion, erosion of the public sphere and new social requirements of governability

Abstract

The metropolitan expansion in Brazil has been developed as a process of selective modernization, anchored in instrumental uses of the archaic and the precarious that worsen the material conditions of life and social and political detachment of a large portion of the population. The existence of anti-symmetrical urbanity standars, however, reinforces standards of governability that exempt the effort in the reconstitution of the public and reaffirm the patrimonialism. The production of another reality requires actions strategies formulation through the State and the civil society, two non-separable fields that present different temporality and possibilities of definition of actions and means. In this presentation, we discuss ways of aching in the reinforcement of the civil society, through the production of non tutelary canals of actions aggregation, experiences, institutions, forces and resources, aiming at a gradual production of new social requirements of governability.