"IF I HAVE TO DO I WILL DO AND I WANT TO SEE THE CITY TAKE DOWN": ETHNOGRAPHY IN A COLLECTIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TERRITORIAL PLANNING OF THE CITY OF VITÓRIA – ES

Abstract

The municipality of Vitória - ES became the stage for discourses on “sustainability” and “greening”, especially from the 1990s onwards, with the creation of the Vitória do Futuro Project, Terra Mais Igual Program, Maciço Environmental Protection Area Central and its Ecological-Economic Zoning, Urban Master Plan, and also with the administration of Fonte Grande State Park, transfer to municipal power by the state government. From then onwards, an entire institutional apparatus is used to support a set of developmental policies and discourses on “sustainability” that do not consider the forests of the hills and their surroundings as environments for socialization and belonging to various groups in the city. Authoritarian processes of territorial ordering and removal - in search of the creation of a green city - not only the existence of collective relations with the territory, but with the other subjects that make up the cosmography of the place, is denied, which has generated several socio-environmental conflicts. In this article, I seek to demonstrate, through an ethnography, the effects of this environmental policy in one of these groups, as well as the policy of abandonment and restrictions imposed by the Municipality of Vitória - PMV, in addition to how this collective acts as a means of resistance to the onslaught of this in trying to get him out of there.