Occupying Paulista: Housing activism, the new right and the politics of public space during the Brazilian crisis. (June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Occupying Paulista: Housing activism, the new right and the politics of public space during the Brazilian crisis. (June 2021)
- Main Title:
- Occupying Paulista: Housing activism, the new right and the politics of public space during the Brazilian crisis
- Authors:
- Albert, Victor
- Abstract:
- Brazilian society has frequently been described as polarized during the country's recent political and economic crisis. In 2018, a wave of opposition to the centre-left Workers' Party culminated in the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who portrays the political left as a malevolent force in Brazilian society. In this paper I explore this polarization through drawing on ethnographic research with the Homeless Workers' Movement ( Movimento de Trablhadores Sem-Teto, MTST), a large urban social movement that develops settlements on underutilized land in the city, and a prominent civil society opponent of Bolsonaro. More specifically, I examine a key site of socio-spatial tension in São Paulo, Paulista Avenue, as a new political right came to predominate on the city's main thoroughfare during the campaign to impeach the Workers' Party President, Dilma Rousseff. I show how the perceived intolerance of the mobilized right helped to establish new normative codes that regulated the political symbolism which could be displayed in public spaces. Lastly, I consider how the vilification of the MTST in particular and the political left in general by the new right is embedded in broader structures of stigmatization.
- Is Part Of:
- Thesis eleven. Volume 164:Number 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Thesis eleven
- Issue:
- Volume 164:Number 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 164, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 164
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0164-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 37
- Page End:
- 53
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Subjects:
- crisis in Brazil -- Homeless Workers' Movement -- impeachment of Dilma Rousseff -- new right -- protests
Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
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- http://the.sagepub.com ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/07255136211023905 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0725-5136
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- Legaldeposit
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