“Neighborhood in dispute”: Internal policy in the process of implementing a tax audit in a club condominium in the north of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The national political scenario of 2018 had strong impacts on the sociability of the Brazilian urban life. In this paper we seek to analyze an intense process of internal political disputes that occur in a club condominium, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Such disputes reproduce, to a great extent, the dynamics of the presidential elections of 2018, polarization that became explicit in the movement for the condominium management of this private urban space. In the face of the protagonism of social media in the social and political sphere of the condominium, we investigate the mobilization and the articulation of the political actors in this neighborhood. Therefore, we work with the data produced in these online groups, where these political articulations take different forms, exposing conflicts, ruptures and gossip that drive the political life of this residential space.