The Sovereignist Perspective of the Neoliberal Market and the Human Right to Housing in Brazil: rethinking the urban territories in the face of expulsions of vulnerable groups to risk spaces
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https://doi.org/10.12957/rdc.2025.83782Keywords:
Human Right to Housing, Expulsions, Neoliberalism, Risk Society, Social VulnerabilitiesAbstract
The global metamorphoses of the 21st century have altered the demands of globalized society and produced new complexities based on the sovereignist perspective of the neoliberal market. In this sense, the relentless brutality of the current socioeconomic model (re)produces human rights violations. In the context of Brazilian cities, marked by numerous impasses and political crises, the housing vulnerabilities of social groups expelled to urban territories at high risk of environmental consequences bring to light a significant set of threats to the right to housing in cities. As a result, these controversies, however, cannot be resolved with income distribution or salary increases. In light of this, how is it possible to rethink the urban environment in order to find effective alternatives to address vulnerabilities related to social expulsion for territories subject to climateenvironmental risks and, thus, ensure the right to housing in Brazil? To answer this problem, the study proposes to analyze how the economic dimension of neoliberalism centrifuges the perverse conditions of a market that, on the one hand, supposedly self-regulates and, on the other, imposes the worst housing conditions on the most vulnerable groups in brazilian cities. Specifically, the objective is to investigate in the development of the article: a) the sovereignist perspective of the neoliberal market, its paradoxes and the expansion of inequalities; b) the need to rethink the territory urban based on the social expulsions of vulnerable groups to risky spaces and ensure the human right to housing in Brazil. Such reflections are made based on the combination of the theoretical contributions of Saskia Sassen and Ulrich Beck. Thus, the present exploratory research and with a qualitative approach, is made possible through the use of the hypothetical-deductive scientific method, combined with the bibliographical technique and sociological analysis.
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