Modernidade industrial e cidades prisionais: estudo sobre a favelização urbana e as artes de fazer no Presídio Regional do Serrotão

Abstract

This Master's thesis examines some aspects relating to the historicity of the emergence of slums and shantytowns processes in Campina Grande, particularly the intertwining history of urban slums with the slums that are effectively in the prison systems. It starts with the premise that the prison system promotes the internal reproduction of the slum, expanding and becoming more complex the struggle for survival and the unequal power relations. The problem posed is how the detainee's Presidio Regional Serrotão reframed its internal space a slum? We appropriate methodological experiences afforded by the thick description of the history and genealogy, trying at first to observe the genesis of controlling tendencies, between the medical and sanitation judicial arrests, made between eugenics and laws of the poor, for a second time to relate them receptions between the elites and the industrial context in which they were put into practice in order to promote the segregation of the poor in areas that became known as slums and their materialization in urban planning in which the poor are excluded and, specifically, and spaces within the own tasks prisons. For the analysis of secondary sources were used, such as studies on modernity, cities, power, control systems, and prisons, and primary sources such as newspapers, government publications and interviews. Concluding that the movements segregation of prison s structures, such as the urban poor, develop by physicians theories, but also by the resistance to these widely used inside and outside the prisons.