The tendency towards a degrading spatiality and the horizon for political space education

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the progressive formation of a contradictory sociospatial condition, discontinuous and uneven, submitted to increasing privatization and commodification, that has been consolidating as a trend in contemporary extensive urbanization. It is spread out in the current world, with strong incidence in Brazil and in its urban reality, not only in metropolises, but also in small and medium cities, thus constituting an urban geography of space segregation. Reverberating in the dimensions of daily life, this contradictory and intensified movement raises insurgencies and practices of a reactive nature, which open up possibilities for the forms of appropriation and use of space, more specifically of the city. This scenario has encouraged us to think about the importance and necessity of a political space education for contemporaneity.