Title: No labirinto: formas de gestão do espaço e das populações na Cracolândia
Abstract: This research started from an ethnography in the region known as Cracolândia in downtown of São Paulo, considered the most famous crack use of territoriality in the country.Target of state interventions since its inception in the 1990s, this territoriality remains at the heart of many programs and institutions.In 2012, the conflict erected around the operation Suffocation, there is, however, a change in the forms of management of this space: a rationality dispersion, which was intended to prevent the grouping of crack users through the use of force, to a logic of government that needs this concentrated space to run their programs.My hypothesis is that the territorial fixation combined with this concentrated mesh programs and charitable institutions eventually build a gravitational field around the Cracolândia in order to attract people with very different paths but they are there to have a wandering life.From the journey of a young man I met during the research, I argue that the state produces spaces and territoriality as Cracolândia, to induce and influence the movement of various subjects.As the character of this research shows, their movement is unceasing and unreadable, as the labyrinth image, but guided by a rationality to seek a safe place police invested to establish their "huts" and ways of life, and where there is a concentration of resources and possibilities.Thus, Cracolândia only makes sense within a broader urban experience, which involves other spaces not contingent territorially.