Cozinhas Solidárias e Direito à Cidade

dos movimentos sociais à política pública. Uma análise a partir da Cozinha da Lapa, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This paper introduces and analyzes the sociopolitical process of raising and development of the Supportive Kitchens in Brazil, as spaces of anti-capitalist sociability and implementation of the right to the city. The goal is to provide dignified habitation and food safety, through material provisions granted to people in situation of serious socioeconomic vulnerability in urban space. The starting point is the experience of the Solidarity Kitchen organized by a pool of social movements (MTST, MUCA and MPA), universities and non-governmental entities, in Lapa neighbourhood, city of Rio de Janeiro. The development arrives until its recent institutionalization as a public policy by the Federal Government (Statute n. 14.628/2023): the Supportive Kitchen Program. The methodology adopted has as epistemological referential the historical and dialectical materialism, and as theoretical-methodological guidelines the Critical Theory of capitalist society, with multidisciplinary profile and axle in the category “Right to the City”. The research has qualitative nature and adopts inductive and deductive reasoning. The techniques of research used are bibliographic review, documentary analysis and participant observation. Primary sources are data extracted from researches and documents provided by State and civil society entities; secondary sources are Brazilian and foreign academic papers and books.