The production of space and the appropriation of urban amazon commons: mercadification, conflicts and resistance in the waterfront of the city of Marabá-PA

Abstract

The waterfronts of the Amazonian cities are spaces that, from the beginning of the process of regional occupation until the current period, present an intense economic, functional and symbolic-cultural relationship with the dynamics of nature (forest and rivers). Facing this context, this work analyzes the production of space and the appropriation of the urban Amazon commons under the modernization process (infrastructural, touristic and hydroelectric projects) of the Marabá’s waterfront, a city that exerts great centrality in the South / Southeast regions of the Pará state. Finally, the analysis showed that the modernizing and entrepreneurial dynamics of this area, which are in conflict with each other, subtract the urban commons (river and waterfront), suffocating the existent riverside man