Do Brasil à Moçambique: um olhar da participação popular na luta pelo direito à cidade

Abstract

The article reflects on the Right to the City, from the participation of citizens as a way to reach it. The study is worked from the Brazilian context to reach the Mozambican context. The reproduction of several cities in the world is consolidated by the neoliberal model, carrying with it a colonisation of urban land and housing as financial capital, causing cities to cease to perform their function as a social space and become a potential financial asset. This scenario makes political discourses about urban management and the Right to the City propound the need and importance of urban planning and democratic management of cities, where a social democracy is catalogued in which the population can be and be part of the whole process of urban management. I am interested in thinking about the struggle for the Right to the City through popular participation, starting from the Brazilian experience to reach the Mozambican context. Methodologically, the article is based on a qualitative approach, supported by a bibliographic contribution. The result of the study points to the need for citizens to impose themselves to conquer decision-making spaces to achieve the Right to the City.