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
Analysis
Brazil
Cities
Citizenship
City
Gender Relations
Gender Studies
Gender
Housing Movements
Latin America
Oral History
Pentecostalism
Political Sociology
Politics
Religion
Rio De Janeiro
Sociology
Squatters Movement
Squatting
Urban History
Urban Politics
Urban Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-356)
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr 18, 2017)
