Housing Movements and the Politics of Worthiness in São Paulo
Autor: | Matthew Aaron Richmond, Moisés Kopper |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Subjectivity
060101 anthropology HT Communities. Classes. Races media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography 06 humanities and the arts Ambivalence 0506 political science Grassroots Politics State (polity) Legitimation HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Anthropology Political economy Political science 050602 political science & public administration 0601 history and archaeology Everyday life Social movement media_common |
Zdroj: | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 26:276-296 |
ISSN: | 1935-4940 1935-4932 |
DOI: | 10.1111/jlca.12533 |
Popis: | Based on research with current and former housing activists in São Paulo, this article identifies the concept of “politics of worthiness” as central to the moral justification and technical legitimation of social movements. Attributions of worthiness have long upheld the relationship between institutionalized grassroots organizations and the state but are equally present in everyday life and social distinctions among Brazil's popular classes. By examining contrasting constructions of worthiness among both present-day housing movements and residents of areas that are the product of past mobilizations, the article contends that collective experiences of mobilization in dialogue with myriad external influences produce diverse and often ambivalent political subjectivities. The politics of worthiness sheds light on how these actors organize themselves, experience participation, and square universalist demands with the contingent solidarities and changing social, institutional, and political realities that they inhabit. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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