THE CAPITALIST CITY IN PRODUCTION OF EXCLUDED AND THE EXCLUDED IN PRODUCTION OF THE CAPITALIST CITY: THE URBAN EXCLUSION PARADOX

Abstract

The present article aims to explore, from a dialectical approach, the process of social exclusion observed in capitalist cities. It intends to theoretically discuss the existing dialectic in the dynamics of capitalist production of space that ends up resulting in the scenario of exclusion for several individuals and, at the same time, these same individuals end up guaranteeing reproduction the contemporary capitalist city. The imbricated relation of the excluded as products and producers of the capitalist city reveals the current process of capitalist production of space that guarantees the material and symbolic reproduction of capitalism itself. The objective of this article is to reveal the contradictory character of capitalist urbanization, focusing on the (re) production of the social excluded within this logic. In this way they act actively in the production of the city. They are required by the system, they are integrated because they are excluded. Thus, what is excluded turns out to be integrated into the system. But it is precisely in their 'negative' insertion in the capitalist totality that the excluded are configured as a possible negation of this totality.