Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice

The Right to the City in São Paulo
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-51399-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5358 g

Reihe: Studies of the Americas

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in São Paulo, Brazil. It takes the wave of protests that began in the city in 2013 as a starting point, and grounds them in the history of social movement mobilisation in urban Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with a federation of housing movements, this work demonstrates the ongoing relevance of the concept of the right to the city for social movements of the urban poor, and examines these movements’ creative interpretation of national legislation to support their claims for housing and urban citizenship.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Earle, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction .- 2. Housing, Citizenship and the Right to the City .- 3. São Paulo: The Illegal City .- 4. Social Movements in Brazil: Democratisation and Politicisation .- 5. Fronting Up to the State: Constructing A ‘Politics of Rights' .- 6. The Limits to Institutional Engagement: Negotiating Housing Policy the Nice Way .- 7. Occupying the City .- 8. Transgressive Citizenship.

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Earle is an adviser for the UK’s Department for International Development. Prior to this appointment, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa researching access to land and housing in Maputo, Mozambique. Dr. Earle has worked as an international consultant on urban development issues, and undertook her doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.