Global impulses in the urban space of medium cities in the brazilian Amazon:

from the territorial action of transportation platform companies by digital application to the territory used as resistance in Marabá, Pará

Abstract

In order to the diffusion of transport platform companies by digitial application, including their arrival in médium-sized cities, such as Marabá. This work aims to anylize how the new labor-politics-urban space coalitions affect the use of the city territory. Emphasizing the insecurity of labor relations and the limits of local public power. Thus, precarious work leads to precarious space, affecting the right to the city. Initially, the territorial action of Uber and other similar plataform companies stand out in the expansion of plataform capitalism towards medium-sized cities, such as Marabá. Thereafter, indicate the appropriation of the space inherited by the plataform companies with in the materialization of the application’s operations and the use of this technology by the uberized workers in the provision of transport services in the city, with the resulting conflicts. Finally, this article emphasizes how these companies, its workers and the local public authorities adjust and accommodate their actions in the urban space, with implications for the right to the city. Thus, confirms that the arrival of digital pltaforms and applications to Marabá increased the process of job insecurity and the new forms of exploitation of urban space and its blight as well.