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Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

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AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

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ISBN10: 047205564X
ISBN13: 9780472055647
Publisher: Univ Of Michigan Pr
Published: Nov 17 2022
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years.

Drawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and future beneficiaries, Moisés Kopper tells the story of how a group of grassroots housing activists rose from oblivion to build a model community. He explores the strategies set forth by housing activists as they waited and hoped for--and eventually secured--homeownership through Minha Casa Minha Vida's public-private infrastructure. By showing how these efforts coalesced in Porto Alegre--Brazil's once progressive hotspot--he interrogates the value systems and novel arrangements of power and market that underlie the country's post-neoliberal project of modern and inclusive development.

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