ELEMENTS TO UNDERSTAND SOCIO-SPATIAL FRAGMENTATION IN ITUIUTABA-MG:

an analysis from the perceptions of urban insecurity

Abstract

The intensification of urbanization today has been accompanied by the gradual breaking of ties that, in a way, have maintained social cohesion in cities, transforming the daily lives of their inhabitants, marked by socio-spatial inequalities and urban violence. We understand that addressing the issue of urban violence is to understand its continuous appearances in cities, from multiple mechanisms of hypervisibility / invisibility, often selective, that generally do not portray and face violence in its broadest sense, but from pre-script established, which tend to associate, for example, poverty with crime, thus guiding perceptions of insecurity in socio-spatial stigmatizations. Thus, the general objective of the article seeks to analyze the perception of urban insecurity and its relations with the tendency of socio-spatial fragmentation, from the understanding of the subjective dynamics that permeate the spatial practices of the search for security in Ituiutaba-MG. The contents of perceptions of insecurity were observed through interviews with 10 city dwellers living in different neighborhoods in the city. It was possible to identify that there are elements that indicate a tendency of socio-spatial fragmentation in the city, since the organicity of the urban space is questioned, objectively and symbolically, by the citizens from stigmatizations and avoidances that fracture the urban daily life, prohibiting accesses and discouraging links.