Abstract:
In Rio de Janeiro, urban planning and the right to the city have been suffering neoliberal model's strong interference, putting into conflict the interests of those who dwell the territory and the large corporations of the financial capital. That interference exacerbates problems already known by cariocas, such as the denial of basic rights, the criminalization of poverty and an increase in the cost of living. In the present text, we worked with the idea of city not as the stage of a historical social class dispute or as the object of this dispute, but as the emergence of the dispute itself. We are interested in analyzing and discussing the effects of this dispute, as well as in elaborating ways of resistance and overcoming the inequalities that mark human experience in the Brazilian social reality. In this scenario, it is necessary to construct another way of doing Psychology, committed to gathering elements of action capable of intervening in the reality that has been imposed from the perspective of the entrepreneurial city. A Psychology that has struggle and political participation as goals for a democratic experience of society, thus consolidating social commitment as a guide to the profession.
Keywords:
Right to City; Psychology; Social Participation