ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relations between the port and the city of Rio de Janeiro in order to grasp the different processes and mechanisms that associate port and city to capitalist accumulation. It uses the framework of entangled accumulation as a springboard to reinterpret a ‘geographical common sense’ according to which ports are celebrated as the driver of settlements, establishing a ‘port–city symbiotic trajectory’. Instead, the chapter focuses on points of divorce or disjuncture between port and city and describes them as movements to decouple spaces from the dynamic of value production. These movements are necessary for the construction of a new ‘exterior’, which, in turn, is essential to maintain accumulation.
