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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476920603321

Autore

Wittger Bea

Titolo

Squatting in Rio de Janeiro : constructing citizenship and gender from below / / Bea Wittger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-8394-3547-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 pages)

Collana

Urban Studies

Disciplina

305.420981

Soggetti

Citizenship - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Housing - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Squatters - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Table of Contents    5  List of Acronyms    7  Acknowledgements    9  1. Introduction    11  2. Theoretical and Historical Framework    33  3. Insights into the Squats    115  4. Doing Citizenship and Gender from Below    187  5. Conclusion    315  Bibliography    331

Sommario/riassunto

The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social movements occupy empty buildings in the cities to challenge historically-rooted and excluding urban politics. Exploring the occupants' agency, Bea Wittger draws attention to the important role of female actors within the buildings. Through oral histories of participants of two squats in Rio de Janeiro, the book delivers a deep insight "from below" into their own perspectives on citizenship and gender.

»Mit ihrem Buch gibt Bea Witters dezidierte Einblicke in die alltägliche Auseinandersetzung darum wie ein Recht auf Wohnen von den Besetzer_innen verwirklicht bzw. verteidigt wird und welche An- und Widersprüche damit verbunden sind.«  Katharina Schmidt, apropos, 3



(2019)    »Eine lesenswerte, in Teilen gegenüber der eigenen Position als Wissenschaftlerin sehr selbstkritische Studie, die Einblicke in heterogene Lebensentwürfe und Denkweisen zweier Hausbesetzungen in Rio de Janeiro zulässt.«  Katja Reuter, matices, 90 (2017)    Besprochen in:  C3 - Bibliothek für Entwicklungspolitik, 5 (2017)  Fraunhofer IRB, 5 (2017)