Researchers

José Sette is a doctoral candidate (2020) and a CAPES fellow in Urban and Regional Planning, by the Institute of Urban and Regional Research (IPPUR), at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is a member of the CNPq “Space and Power” (Espaço e Poder) Research Group, coordinated by Professors Carlos A. Brandão and Hipólita Siqueira. He holds a master’s degree (2018) in Urban and Regional Planning from IPPUR and Architect and Urbanist graduate degree from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-UFRJ, 2013) – with academic exchange program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 2010.

Currently, is conducting research on the historical spatialization of Brazilian labor, employing a geohistorical approach and a long-term perspective on capitalism. The focus lies in the debate between the interstate Atlantic position and the processes of urbanization following the post-slavery period. Hypotheses revolve around the necessary examination of Brazilian socio-historical specificities regarding expropriation and the formation of a “relative surplus population.” The research aims to approach the historicity of capitalist accumulation violence, the reiteration of the primary-export matrix, and the urbanization of poverty in Brazilian coastal cities. Considering geopolitics and national economic integration, the doctoral thesis delves into different junctures and scales of dispossession to examine the heterogeneous formation of the labor market and, subsequently, the metropolitanization of Rio de Janeiro. One of the objectives is to place the rhetoric of neoliberalism in a historical perspective, confronting it with the strategies implemented by “latecomers” and, to some extent, reinforcing the importance of the national scale for the urban debate.

Palavras-chave: geohistory, labor, long-term, underemployment, urbanization