QUILOMBO DAS GUERREIRAS AND ZUMBI DOS PALMARES: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FOR HOUSING RIGHTS IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Housing and urbanization are processes of construction of cities and societies. In Brazil, they have supported public policies that does not consider the rights of those who are affected by the urban reforms that such policies carry out. In this sense, the urbanization of the city of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 21st century seems to adopt old authoritarian policies of the past. Sporting and political projects aiming to enhance the process of urbanization and globalization of the city of Rio de Janeiro have not considered the interests of the actors who are the characters in the history of the city itself in which they inhabit and occupy a place in the process of its construction. Thus, the right to housing of low-income populations that constitute the urban movements of occupation of the abandoned public buildings in downtown Rio de Janeiro come up with the consequences of these processes of urbanization of the city. The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the relationship between civil society and State in the city of Rio de Janeiro. However, this goal depends on the condition that assigns to the movements of the occupation status of social movements.