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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Urban StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839435472
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 307.3/36098153 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7323.R56 W58 2017eb
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and Historical Framework -- 3. Insights into the Squats -- 4. Doing Citizenship and Gender from Below -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and Historical Framework -- 3. Insights into the Squats -- 4. Doing Citizenship and Gender from Below -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography

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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.

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