Architectures of hope : infrastructural citizenship and class mobility in Brazil's public housing / Moisés Kopper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopper, Moisés, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--Brazil--Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul).

Public housing.

Low-income housing--Brazil--Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul).

Low-income housing.

City planning--Political aspects--Brazil--Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul).

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2022]

Summary:

Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years. Drawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and future beneficiaries, Moisés Kopper tells the story of how a group of grassroots housing activists rose from oblivion to build a model community. He explores the strategies set forth by housing activists as they waited and hoped for--and eventually secured--homeownership through Minha Casa Minha Vida's public-private infrastructure. By showing how these efforts coalesced in Porto Alegre--Brazil's once progressive hotspot--he interrogates the value systems and novel arrangements of power and market that underlie the country's post-neoliberal project of modern and inclusive development. By chronicling the making and remaking of material hope in the aftermath of Minha Casa Minha Vida, Architectures of Hope reopens the future as a powerful venue for ethnographic inquiry and urban development.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction

The Subjunctivity of Hope

Hoping for the Future

Part II: Infrastructural Citizenship

Chapter 1. The Making of a Model Community

Chapter 2. The Machine of Worthiness

Chapter 3. Waiting and Hoping

Chapter 4. Cartographies of Well-being

Part III: Middle-Class Sensorial

Chapter 5. Topographies of Consumption

Chapter 6. Democracies of Hope

Chapter 7. Infrastructuring Class

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Kopper, Moisés Architectures of hope

ISBN:

9780472220717