As lógicas da exclusão urbana no contexto português : uma perspectiva Sul-Norte

Urban exclusion is a growing phenomenon in Portugal, in a context of economic crisis and austerity. Despite this, the underlying rationales are still hardly debated or systematised, reducing and subsuming urban exclusion to the generalised social exclusions found on the territory. In this paper, the author underlines the role of “the urban” in the production and re-production of exclusion, through the identification of four main rationales and interdependencies among them. This conceptual formulation arises from comparison with Brazilian reality, where urban exclusion is structural and therefore more easily intelligible.