Dos limites da habitação à liberdade do habitar: uma análise de gênero da provisão habitacional do Programa PAC-Beberibe

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the implementation process of the Beberibe Basin Integrated Sanitation Program (PAC-Beberibe), considering the housing provision built within this program (The Residential Complex Miguel Arraes), based on the social gender relations. Therefore, we aim to (1) understand the elements that influence the relation between women and habitat, (2) analyze the context in which occurs the dwelling realization of the dwellers in the residential complex and, finally, (3) to verify if the implemented housing policy contributes to the reduction of gender inequalities. Thereunto, the study involves the adoption of the qualitative and theoretical approach of gender to the understanding of its object. In order to achieve the proposed objectives and to guarantee greater reliability of our research, through the data triangulation and results, the instruments of participant observation, documentary and bibliographic analysis were used, as well as semi-structured interviews with six beneficiaries of the Program. These data were treated through the concepts of gender (SCOTT, 1989) and dwell (HEIDEGGER, 2008) as well as based on the monitoring indicators developed by the UN Human Rights Council Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. Our analyzes pointed out, among other results, that in the beneficiaries of the program perspective the PAC-Beberibe action strategies do nothing to reduce, in the field of territorial development, the social inequalities faced by women. The results of this research may therefore contribute to the construction of more in-depth reflections about the complexity of the relation between gender and public policies, as well as provisioning a relevant scientific contribution to the formulation of housing policies that consider the inseparability among to build, to dwell and to think, considering gender relations.