O DIREITO À CIDADE COMO PRÁTICA DE RESISTÊNCIA A POLÍTICAS DE GENTRIFICAÇÃO E DE REMOÇÕES FORÇADAS: O CASO DA COMUNIDADE METRÔ- MANGUEIRA (RIO DE JANEIRO).
This paper aims to discuss the right to the city as practice os resistance of the residents from Metrô-Mangueira Community to the policies of gentrification and compelled removals at the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the international mega sportive events. It analyses the legal and social conflicts to the guaranty of the right to the city of the community residents and their resistance strategies to the public policies of the city council. These aimed to territory appropriation to the accomplishment of urban infrastructure constructions with private enterprises. The research has qualitative nature and legal-sociological profile, adopts deductiveinductive reasoning and has as theoretical-methodological referential the critical theory of the capitalist society. It uses the research techniques of bibliographic review, documentary analysis and case study. The primary sources are data extracted from interviews with residents, traders and workers of the Metrô-Mangueira Community. The secondary resources are books, papers and documents.