A interação entre o movimento de moradia e os técnicos estatais: dilemas, arenas e políticas de pós-ocupação na Bahia

Abstract

This thesis discusses the trajectory of interaction between the housing movement and state technicians in Bahia in a process that enabled the formation of post-occupation demands, arenas and policies in Bahia. The fight for post-occupation arises with the demands regarding the Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) post. In Bahia, a fruitful process took place in which actors inside and outside the State pressed for the formation of an institutional structure and specific post-occupation policies. We noticed profound transformations in the actors involved and in the interfaces between them. A new participatory instance is built in this process: the Post-Occupation Forum of the Metropolitan Region of Salvador. This space's function is to debate and resolve problems related to the Minha Casa Minha Vida projects already delivered. Representatives of the housing movement, technicians from CAIXA, the state and municipalities are part of the forum. Considering the complexity of the object, we will use several methodological tools. Using a qualitative approach, we carried out semi-structured interviews, document analysis and direct observation. An interesting reconfiguration of the interaction of the housing movement and state actors in Bahia was observed with: a) the creation of the new framework of the “struggle for post-occupation” based on post-implementation deficits, low state capacity, trade-offs arising from institutional participation and the dynamics of the interactive process b) the construction of an intense political community between state technicians and housing movement organizations c) the creation and consolidation of institutional arrangements and peripheral domains of agency d) the mobilization of certain institutional fluidity as strategies to adapt to situational differences in the face of asymmetries in state permeability and the low capacity to occupy central positions in the state fabric.