Xambá is among the cults of African origin in Pernambuco, and Terreiro Santa Bárbara in Olinda is highly relevant. In 2007 he was granted the title of Urban Quilombo. Since then, it has been claiming the symbolic space of an old ice factory in order to establish a Center for Culture in its premises, thus opposing the Municipality plan to build a bus station. A conflict scenario is formed in which opposing interests confront each other. The dynamics of actors, its own interests, the strategies used and relations established comprise this complex scenario. This paper try to understand the configurations of strategy of these conflicting social agents, their alliances, support and resistance. As an amorphous space is turned into a territory, it guides actors and causes chain reactions. Bourdieu's (1996). theory of social fields explains the dynamics established in the construction of public policies and the action of social agents participating in this construction. Politics emerge as the dispute dimension where the struggle field is established for all agents involved. The text investigates the "production of organizing" in an ongoing process and describes the territorial dynamics, strategies and alliances of these social groups as they confront the authorities in power
