A Casa como Materialidade Política: Devires de Ascensão Social na Política Habitacional Brasileira

Moisés Kopper

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Abstract: The article explores the ways in which the opening of new imaginative horizons is linked to the appropriation and consumption of the house among beneficiaries of public housing in Brazil. It argues for a total and processual notion of the home: simultaneously a political, symbolic, and affective construction in flux. It also suggests that the economic and temporal investments beneficiaries make while availing themselves of and consuming the house shape new ethical, material, and stratifying sensibilities. These sensibilities coalesce around the quest for upward social mobility. The article tells the housing story of a family that moved, in 2014, from an informal settlement to a middle-class condominium in order to reconstruct, ethnographically, the connections between the built environment, its political and vital materialities, and the construction of subjective spaces for imagination and social mobility.

Date: 2023-09-01
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Published in: Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación. Ensayos. (2023) v.25 n° 164,p.135-151

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