The city as a mosaic: Law, otherness and dialectic perspective
| Autor | Maria Coeli Simões Pires - Mila Batista Leite Corrêa da Costa |
| Ocupação do Autor | Master and PhD in Law. Associate Professor of Administrative Law at Federal University of Minas Gerais - Graduated, Master in Law and PhD stundet at Federal University of Minas Gerais |
| Páginas | 478-488 |
478 • XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
The city as a mosaic:
Law, otherness and dialectic perspective
Maria Coeli Simões Pires1
Mila Batista Leite Corrêa da Costa2
Abstract: The city, especially in a democratic postmodern framework, appears
as a shared background where the interaction and sociopolitical, economic, cul-
tural and symbolic relationships occur. Extrapolating the physical scope and
the contextual composition, the city presents itself as a crucible of exchange,
reactions, functionalization of their componential elements and, above all, the
city is consolidated as a baseline of universal access to rights. The urban space
therefore hosts the citizenship universalization, and needs to be observed and
evaluated by the concept of plurality and diversity that form the town mosaic,
always susceptible to changes in process, social actors dialogue, and multiple
variables that are drawn by “dialectic of look” about the city. In this line, Law
plays critical role – with their regulatory systems – in the dynamics of “net-
works of meaning” assimilation and in the perception of dierences inherent to
the complexity of the city. Accordingly, it is necessary to adopt a self-reective
and dialogic methodology able to translate reality – object of juridical regula-
tion – with delity. The urban seing requires a systematic set of rules and
representations erected not in the portrayal of a society articially conceived
as homogeneous, but in the heterogeneous, plural and pulsating conformation
of social and symbolic manifestations immersed in urban space. The city as a
locus of interaction and behavioral/discursive molding therefore allows degrees
of learning accumulation to individual and collective formulation of social prac-
tices, constituting itself as a composition eld of argumentative and symbolic
forces related to many actors. All imbued with the need to build consensus,
but guided by diversity and plurality that characterize the composition of a
1
Master and PhD in Law. Associate Professor of Administrative Law at Federal Univer-
sity of Minas Gerais. Lawyer. Secretary of Oce of the Chief of Sta and Institutional
Relations for the Governor of the State of Minas Gerais. E-mail: coeliserro@gmail.com
2
Graduated, Master in Law and PhD stundet at Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Postgraduate degree in Public and Labor Law. Graduated in International Aairs at Pon-
tical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Advisor of Oce of the Chief of Sta and In-
stitutional Relations for the Governor of the State of Minas Gerais. E-mail: milableite@
hotmail.com.
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