How does hope emerge as a life-altering possibility against the backdrop of economic precarity, political disregard, and soaring inequality? This paper explores the role of hope as both a political-economic construct and an infrastructural affect in the wake of policy implementation. It draws on a five-year ethnography among community leaders, housing activists, planners, politicians, state officials, and market representatives involved in the implementation of Minha Casa Minha Vida, Brazil’s largest social housing program. In recent years, low-income projects have become the battleground for experimental, post-neoliberal forms of democratic governance via inclusive consumption. These public–private housing infrastructures give insight into...
This book review examines Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Br...
When assuming power in 2003, Lula promised the inclusion of civil society and social ...
In Latin America’s pink tide democracies, peripheries were pivotal openings into the ambiguities of ...
Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer ma...
Economic and social policies paved the way for inequality alleviation and wellbeing improvements in ...
The article analyzes some traits of the relationship between the public policies implemented during ...
In Brazil’s post-neoliberal government, social policies became the bedrock for a new political econo...
In Brazil’s post-neoliberal government, social policies became the bedrock for a new political econo...
In much of the world, neoliberal reforms since the 1970s have been associated with the market-driven...
This paper focuses on the struggle of a group of street vendors in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – displace...
Across the world traditional forms of urban management are affected by economic restructuring and ne...
The 2018 presidential election result in Brazil surprised and shocked many. Since then, numerous deb...
The housing shortage in Brazil, which is currently estimated at 5.5 million units, is the constant s...
Has Brazil made significant social progress during the longest left-wing democratic government in it...
In the last decade, Brazil passed through several political and economic reforms that led to signifi...
This book review examines Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Br...
When assuming power in 2003, Lula promised the inclusion of civil society and social ...
In Latin America’s pink tide democracies, peripheries were pivotal openings into the ambiguities of ...
Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer ma...
Economic and social policies paved the way for inequality alleviation and wellbeing improvements in ...
The article analyzes some traits of the relationship between the public policies implemented during ...
In Brazil’s post-neoliberal government, social policies became the bedrock for a new political econo...
In Brazil’s post-neoliberal government, social policies became the bedrock for a new political econo...
In much of the world, neoliberal reforms since the 1970s have been associated with the market-driven...
This paper focuses on the struggle of a group of street vendors in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – displace...
Across the world traditional forms of urban management are affected by economic restructuring and ne...
The 2018 presidential election result in Brazil surprised and shocked many. Since then, numerous deb...
The housing shortage in Brazil, which is currently estimated at 5.5 million units, is the constant s...
Has Brazil made significant social progress during the longest left-wing democratic government in it...
In the last decade, Brazil passed through several political and economic reforms that led to signifi...
This book review examines Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Br...
When assuming power in 2003, Lula promised the inclusion of civil society and social ...
In Latin America’s pink tide democracies, peripheries were pivotal openings into the ambiguities of ...