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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476920603321

Autore

Wittger Bea <p>Bea Wittger, Universität zu Köln, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Squatting in Rio de Janeiro : Constructing Citizenship and Gender from Below / Bea Wittger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017

ISBN

9783839435472

3839435471

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 pages)

Collana

Urban Studies

Disciplina

305.420981

Soggetti

Social Movements

Housing Movements

Squatting

Squatters Movement

Gender

Gender Relations

Citizenship

Pentecostalism

Religion

Urban History

Urban Studies

Cities

Latin America

Brazil

Rio De Janeiro

Urban Politics

Oral History

City

Politics

Gender Studies

Political Sociology

Sociology

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.

Besprochen in:C3 - Bibliothek für Entwicklungspolitik, 5 (2017)Fraunhofer IRB, 5 (2017)

»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.«

»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.«