Zero rating and the infrastructure of political (mis)communication in Brazil – Raquel Rennó and Juliana Novaes
Presented initially at II COCA, Universitat de Girona, January 2022 as part of the panel on Promise and Failure of Infrastructures
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Symposium “Promise and failure of infrastructure: technologies in everyday life” – COCA2022
CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 2nd CATALAN CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY.
Infrastructure and water: Community management of aqueducts in San Bernardo (Colombia)
Sur Desarrollo Journal. Collaboration of Camila Méndez.
Patience and promise: See the trains pass over a bridge
"Promise and failure of infrastructure." Article in the framework of the symposium of the Congrès Català d’Antropologia (COCA 2022).
‘Sacar al pájaro’. Stigmatization and public space in Besós, Barcelona – José Mansilla
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Spirits of the diaspora: Ritual and urban space between Casablanca and Barcelona – Stefano Portelli
OACU research seminar. Thursday June 3rd at 18.30h.
“Homeless, moving margin” – Joan Uribe and Carla Rivera
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
“La intifada del Besòs, 1990. From exploitation to exclusion” – Manuel Delgado
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Workshop of the ICA’s research groups: Multiple approaches, alliances and perspectives from anthropology.
Perifèries Urbanes participates on May 19th at 6.00 p.m., along with other ICA working groups. Prior registration is required.
First Conferences on Margins and Urban Peripheries
This conference will take place on May 13th and will be organised by the research groups Perifèries Urbanes and Cultura Popular i Conflicte (ICA).
IV course on Ethnographic methods in planning research
This IV edition of the course Ethnographic Methods in Planning Research is part of the emerging debate on the contributions of ethnographic studies to architectural research.
Gentri-Fric-Acció, debates in Barcelona
Four days of debate in La Cinètika, a squatted social space in the neighborhood of Sant Andreu, Barcelona
A conference on urban research and activism in the US
From September 12 to 14 a conference on urban activism in Harvard will debate on the links between urban struggles and research activities.
Criminalization of the housing movement in Brazil
Last June 24th four activists for housing were arrested in São Paulo, Brasil, while seventeen others linked to the movement for squatting were put under arrest; fifteen more are threatened of detention. The arbitrariousness of the operation is another signal of the steady drift towards fascism of the state of Brazil, that is, the complete subjugation of public institutions to the interest of big landowners and investors.
The activists were members of housing movements that squatted and returned to the common huge buildings in central São Paulo; they were accused of criminal association and extortion, something that was also employed in other countries to criminalize squatting, but not yet in Brazil. For their defense, a new organization was created: the “Popular committee in defense of political prisoners and popular movements“, whose members are activists, worker union members, artists, journalists, lawyers and other people concerned by the criminalization of social struggles.
Given the previous cases of extreme repression perpetrated by Brazilian authorities against social movements, that include extrajudiciary killings such as Marielle Franco‘s death in March 2018, it is extremely important that all people concerned to the right to housing and to the city in all the world mobilize to denounce these arrests, to claim liberty for the prisoners, and the end of arbitrary persecutions against activists.
- Sign the petition for the liberation of the four activists arrested in Sao Paulo here
- Jornalistas Livres, “Prisão de lideranças do movimento da moradia é conluvio entre promotores e policiais“, June 28th
- Interview to one of the arrested activists, Preta Ferreira: video
- Letter of the “Comité en defensa de los presos políticos de los movimientos populares” (PDF)
Five years since the conflict in Gamonal
In 2014 some residents of Burgos fought a battle against the project of a boulevard planned to cut through their neighborhood. The conflict was so harsh that the City Council had to suspend the project.