Notas sobre processos de consolidação da cidadania urbanos e rurais da cidade de Feira de Santana

Abstract

This study is based on a research project motivated by a recognition of the shortcomings in the social development of both the urban and rural sectors of a city as a result of ineffective public policy making. It is a qualitative case study in that it describes the existential facts that mark the life of the communities that participated in the investigation. The study sought to outline the prospects for insurgent citizenship and the articulation of social development focused public policy making, as well as municipal projects, targets and budgets, in the suburb of Cidade Nova and the rural district of Jaguara. The study aimed to identify the phenomena responsible for social inequality and the economic mechanisms present in the abovementioned urban and rural spaces that influence the emergence of citizenship, as well as describing their way of life and perceived sense of visibility as related to their condition as citizens. Furthermore, the ideological constructions present in the urban and rural contexts of the city of Feira de Santana were also investigated. The coherence between the Budget Guidelines Law (LDO) and the Budgetary Law (LOA), and their consequences for Social Assistance and Social Development, provides the scope of the study, the methodological procedure being a discourse analysis case study of the citizens involved. The study found that one of the principle reasons for the failings of social development policies is the inability of policy makers to fully comprehend the reality of urban and rural citizens, which provides space for an, as yet, fragmented and episodic insurgent citizenship.