Infraestrutura em dissenso: a ferrovia e o monotrilho na produção/expropriação da vida no Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador/BA

Abstract

This research seeks to carry out a discussion about the intervention of the monorail and the deactivation of the train in the Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, from the act of following the conflict established by this project proposed by the Government of the State of Bahia through a Public Private Partnership (PPP). In order to conduct this research, I propose to monitor and, above all, collaborate with the collective actions of residents and their alliances, aiming to influence the project in question. In view of this, I mobilize tools to follow the conflict from the point of view of those who live in the territory and are subject to the threats invoked by the intervention, whether following the public debate, hearings, meetings and conversations with residents, which lead me to public and personal documents, news and other sources, triangulated here to apprehend the dimensions of the encounter between the production of this infrastructure and the way people make the city in this territory. It is following the conflict that I face dissent as a creative and political force in which the residents tension the meanings and effects of infrastructure policies, evidencing development and progress as ways of differentially managing their lives and their racialized territories. Infrastructure is observed as an image that promotes the visualization of the operation of governmental rationality and offers this rationality to the political debate. It is by mobilizing dissent in the face of the promises of this rationality that the residents stimulate and reposition the conflict in the public debate, and thus, even in the face of absent spaces for participation, build politics. Confronting development discourses supported by expropriation and racial banning in their territories, they demand to be included in the future announced by the new infrastructure. The research shows that, even if this announced future is now in ruins, the residents continue to remind us on a daily basis that the city is made by its movements in space and time, beyond the urban plans of the State and private agents.