This is a research on two urban occupations for housing purposes – Alto Bonito and Jardim
Deus é Fiel, both located in Araguaína - TO. We studied, along with the communities, their
practices in the search for theoretical and empirical ties with the urban Common, investigating
it as a political principle and as a biopolitical production. In summary, our research problem
consists of investigating traits of the common in the occupations surveyed, specifically in
territorialization practices. We lean over theoretical elaborations of the Common and the urban
Common, dialoguing with other relatable theoretical strands, seeking references in Foucault
(2008; 2008.b; 2019; 2019; 2019.b) and Agamben (2002; 2016; 2017; 2019) for better
understand the categories of biopower, biopolitics and bare life. Afterwards, we established the
central authors of the investigation of the Common, Hardt and Negri (2014; 2016; 2018), Dardot
and Laval (2018), following the path already paved by João Bosco de Moura Tonucci Filho
(2017; 2020), we dedicated ourselves to the urban in the perspective of Lefebvre (2002; 2011;
2013) in order to establish a theoretical basis to understand the Urban Common in the
aforementioned neighborhoods. In another part, we seek to bring concepts of political culture
and territory capable of conversing with the articulation of the urban Common. At the end, we
looked in the field of research, in community experiences, for elements of connection between
the theoretical background, namely, Urban common, political culture and territory. Our focus
was limited to activities related to the installation and maintenance of occupations, access to
electricity and potable water service networks, and resistance and defense actions in the face of
the constant risk of eviction. The study was developed in conjunction with the community and
concurrently with the research, we continued in the technical defense of the occupants with the
repossession actions. The methodology chosen for the work was the action research, as it is
more consistent with this mutual involvement between researchers and the field and adequate
for the proposed purposes – helping to maintain the occupants in the occupied area. By the end,
we were able to verify theoretical traits of the urban common and of the territory in the practices
studied, but not without considerations and adjustments between the theory present in the
bibliographic instruments used and the peripheral Brazilian experiences researched.
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