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  1. Squatting in Rio de Janeiro
    constructing citizenship and gender from below
    Author: Wittger, Bea
    Published: [2017]; 2017
    Publisher:  Transcript, Bielefeld

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3839435471; 9783839435472
    RVK Categories: RW 60642 ; RW 60798 ; RW 60801
    Series: Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
    Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Citizenship; Housing; Sex role; Squatters; Array; Motivation; Soziale Bewegung; Bewohnerin; Stadtviertel; Geschlechterverhältnis; Stadtentwicklung; Hausbesetzung
    Scope: 1 online resource (356 pages), illustrations, maps
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  2. Squatting in Rio de Janeiro
    Constructing Citizenship and Gender from Below
    Author: Wittger, Bea
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag

    The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the... more

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    The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social movements occupy empty buildings in the cities to challenge historically-rooted and excluding urban politics. Exploring the occupants' agency, Bea Wittger draws attention to the important role of female actors within the buildings. Through oral histories of participants of two squats in Rio de Janeiro, the book delivers a deep insight "from below" into their own perspectives on citizenship and gender

     
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