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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professor at Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo , where she graduated in 1978 and had master degree (1981) ; Raquel Rolnik has a PhD in Urban History granted by the Graduate School Of Arts And Science History Deparament - New York University (1995). She had several professional asignements as urban planner and housing policy specialist in local and national governments and was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2008 to 2014. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This Project aims to inaugurate a new phase of the Observatory of Evictions (OR), which for more than a decade has identified, mapped and analyzed threats and actual evictions of individuals and groups in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP), seeking to understand and influence the dynamics, urban projects and policies that lead to evictions. OR starting point was the recognition o…
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed limitations of public policies in their capacity to act in face of a sanitary crisis with differentiated impacts according to strata and segments of the population (RIBEIRO et al., 2021; LabCidade, 2021 [2]). During this period, the strategies adopted (such as social isolation) were established in a centralized and homogeneous way, without paying attention …
The 1990s in Brazil , under the new institutional background made available by the 1988 Constitution, was a decade of advances in the field of the right to housing and right to the city with the incorporation of the principles of social function of cities and property,the recognition of tenure rights for informal settlements dwellers and the direct participation of citizens in the …
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This plan refers to the exploration and investigation part of the qualitative dimensions of the research, specifically with the "case studies" phase, which begins in the Thematic Project from the 6th semester of the Project, after the exploratory research and mapping phases, as presented in the general schedule of the Thematic Project and throughout the body of the project text. To suppor…
Removals, evictions and forced displacement are processes of dispossession to which certain populations and their living territories are subject. This project is based on the need to identify these populations and territories that are considered to be 'at risk' and which, because of this condition, are potentially subject to processes of displacement in the Metropolitan Region of São Paul…
Eviction processes in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (RMSP) are largely the result of legal actions and proceedings. However, these processes do not occur in a vacuum: disputes and conflicts involving political interests and agendas form the foundation of the public-private urban law framework governing evictions. In other words, there is a political economy underlying the legal framewor…
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This postdoctoral project aims to carry out a multiscalar analysis to monitoring, preventing and recovering from epidemics. Based on the investigation into the territorialization of the pandemic and its impacts on the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, the research in question will have as main result the creation of a methodology for territorial reading, which combines different scales an…
This postdoctoral project aims to carry out a multiscalar analysis to monitoring, preventing and recovering from epidemics. Based on the investigation into the territorialization of the pandemic and its impacts on the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, the research in question will have as main result the creation of a methodology for territorial reading, which combines different scales an…
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This proposal is part of the ongoing doctoral research "Collective ownership and self-management of housing in Latin America: contemporary challenges and horizons". The main objective of the research internship abroad is to deepen the study of the international literature on commons, self-management, autonomy and property, in order to support the analysis of the Latin American experiences…
Part of the ongoing doctoral research "Eminent domain, real estate financial complex and dispossession in contemporary Sao Paulo", this research proposal to be undertaken abroad intends to deepen how eminent domain operates as a linking point between dispossession and financialization processes. The hypothesis is that this particular instrument of original acquisition of property enables …
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