Habitar entre a terra e o concreto: memórias e trajetórias da ocupação Quilombo Paraíso ao Residencial Paraguari II no Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the impacts of the transition of families from the Quilombo Paraíso occupation to the Paraguari II Residential Complex, located in the Subúrbio Ferroviário of Salvador-BA. It explores how this relocation, imposed through a housing development under the Minha Casa Minha Vida program, has affected ways of inhabiting, territorial ties, and affective bonds. At the same time, it seeks to register and document the existence of a Black territory erased from the official urban landscape, whose traces persist in the land beneath the concrete. This qualitative research articulates memory, socio-spatial relations, and collective experiences based on the listening to residents and fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2024. The analysis is structured around three interwoven dimensions, land, affect, and movement, which reveal how reinventions and conditions for life persist even under forced displacement. Inspired by the concept of non-linear time, the study adopts a relational approach in which beginnings are not ruptures, but continuities unfolding from experience. Finally, it highlights the contradictions of urban policy and its intersections with race, territory, and power, arguing that ways of inhabiting between land and concrete and of making the city persist in reexistence, even when denied or rendered invisible by the State.