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Architectures of hope
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.By chronicling the making and remaking of material hope in the aftermath of Minha Casa Minha Vida, Architectures of Hope reopens the future as a powerful venue for ethnographic inquiry and urban development.
- About The Author
- Moisés Kopper is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780472075645
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press, (17 November 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 362
- Weight
- 363 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 29 mm
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