Counter Land Grabbing by the Precariat: Housing Movements and Restorative Justice in Brazil

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dc.contributor.authorIrazabal, Clara
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-17T01:36:06Z
dc.date.available2021-04-17T01:36:06Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractSocial housing movements in Brazil, whose majority members are part of Brazil’s precariat or lowest-income class, are courageously pressing for true urban reform in Brazil, whose old promise has been systematically delayed and subverted, even by some of those who were put in power to realize it. By occupying vacant and underutilized land and buildings, not only are these movements confronting neoliberalism in Brazil at a time of the model’s highest level of hegemony in the country and the world, they are also unveiling the impossibility of the system to deliver sociospatial justice to the poor and are enacting an alternative. Through restorative justice practices, they go beyond critique and press for an alternate sociopolitical project that would allow millions of people in Brazil access to decent housing, and through it, to a myriad of other opportunities, including the right to the city. As shown in the experiences of those participating in housing struggles, restorative justice deserves further exploration as an alternative planning mode that can combine the strengths of advocacy planning and communicative action while reducing their drawbacks. These reflections focus on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sen Teto (MTST) and partially feed from team ethnographic and planning studio work on several building and land occupations in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil in 2016.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/uf2h-gxz7
dc.identifier.citationIrazábal, C. “Counter Land Grabbing by the Precariat: Housing Movements and Restorative Justice in Brazil.” Urban Science, 2018, 2(2), 49, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2020049en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26957
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectland grabbingen_US
dc.subjectprecariaten_US
dc.subjectsocial movementsen_US
dc.subjecthousingen_US
dc.subjectrestorative justiceen_US
dc.subjectBrazilen_US
dc.titleCounter Land Grabbing by the Precariat: Housing Movements and Restorative Justice in Brazilen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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