A política de esporte em Natal: reflexões sobre a desigualdade social e as estratégias da gestão municipal de Natal entre 2018 e 2022

Abstract

This study presents the analysis and reflection on public policies for access to sport at the national level, in the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, and in the municipality of Natal, in the management of Mayor Álvaro Dias, between the years 2018 and 2022. This is a qualitative research, based on bibliographical and documental studies, using dialectical historical materialism as a method, in order to understand the systematization of the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the analyzed locations. The present work brings the historical and conceptual rescue about social inequality in the capitalist system, the regulatory process and the counter-reform of public policies for access to sport in neoliberal governments, the commodification of sport and the impacts faced by sportsmen during the Covid pandemic -19.