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| Author(s): |
Thaís Troncon Rosa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-11-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Cibele Saliba Rizek;
Caio Santo Amore de Carvalho;
Isabel Pauline Hildegard Georges;
Ruy Sardinha Lopes;
Mariana Cavalcanti Rocha dos Santos
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| Advisor: | Cibele Saliba Rizek |
| Abstract | |
Being inserted in debates about poverty and cities in Brazil, the research deals with the links among housing displacements, socio-spatial mobility, family dynamics and urban policies in recent processes of urban space production. The dissertation starts from the argument that, in the context of reconfiguration of the social world and re-signification of the founding categories of surrounding territories, in progress in the country in recent decades, the urban space is also reconfigured: in this sense, it is directed to reflect, in an articulated way, about social and territorial dimensions of these changes and continuities. Based on the completion of an ethnographic field research in the city of São Carlos - SP, it investigates urban trajectories of residents of surrounding areas who, over the last decades, passed through the city in search of housing, as well as the crossings, tangents or divergences with the urban and housing policies undertaken during the same period. Such trajectories are faced as a prime input for the study of socio-spatial dynamics involved in situated processes of production, appropriation and significance of urban surrounding areas, while allowing for apprehending such processes in the injunctions between space and society. The dissertation outlines a spatio-temporal cartography of urban territorialities and experiences considered marginal or peripheral, revealing other cities: cities made out of uprooting, vulnerabilities and adjustments, but also of relationships, symbolizations and projects, whose multiplicity of historical dimensions, conceptions in act or possible future ones, take place just to be apprehended as from the practices and narratives of the subjects. A dialogue is thus established on the folds that simultaneously shape territories, subjectivities and sensibilities; pathways, narratives and spaces; poverty, urban experience and cities; production of knowledge and production of space. (AU) | |