"Critical situations": actors, processes, urban borders in dispute - exploratory phase

• Grant number: 25/10439-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Vera da Silva Telles
• Grantee: Fernando Fernandes Mota
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/12851-7 - Evictions Observatory: interdisciplinary dimensions of risk in times of climate change and housing crisis, AP.TEM

Abstract

This activity plan includes the qualitative research and fieldwork foreseen in this Thematic Project, using an ethnographic approach. According to the definitions and guidelines in the body of this project, the research will be carried out in territories characterized by "critical situations" in which there is an overlap of areas and populations subject to housing insecurity in territories under threat and immediate or potential risks of forced displacement. The ethnographic approach makes it possible to unravel the operative ways in which these dispossessions occur by analyzing the interplay of actors and the power relations inscribed in it, from the perspective of their effects on the "critical contexts" of these territories. This plan is intended for the structuring and development stage of the exploratory phase of the field research. (AU)