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Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

Moisés Kopper
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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.

  • 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
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Published: 2022
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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  • 978-0-472-22071-7 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-07564-5 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-05564-7 (paper)
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  • Anthropology:Social Anthropology
  • Political Science:Urban Politics
  • Class Studies
  • Latin American Studies

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Political map of Porto Alegre highlighting the neighborhoods of Partenon, Restinga, and Downtown.

Map of Porto Alegre

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Figure 1. Map of Porto Alegre based on the Participatory Budgeting Geopolitical Division. Source: Prefeitura de Porto Alegre, Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, Urbanismo e Sustentabilidade (SMAMUS).

Photograph of Residencial Bento Gonçalves, Partenon.

Residencial Bento Gonçalves

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Figure 2. Residencial Bento Gonçalves. August 2014. Source: Author.

Photograph of Dona Hilda’s past home in the slums.

Past Homes

From Intro 1

Figure 3. Past Homes. May 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of Dona Hilda telling her story.

Dona Hilda

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Figure 4. Dona Hilda. May 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of Dona Hilda and her son in the new apartment.

Dona Hilda and her Son

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Figure 5. Dona Hilda and her son. February 2017. Source: Author.

Photograph of Benedita walking in Residencial Bento Gonçalves.

Benedita

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Figure 6. Benedita. January 2014. Source: Author.

Photograph of Daiane in her past home in the slums.

Daiane

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Figure 7. Daiane. May 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of Daiane and her granddaughter in the new apartment.

Daiane and her Granddaughter

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Figure 8. Daiane and her granddaughter in her apartment. January 2015. Source: Author.

Photograph of João’s drawings of houses.

João's Houses

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Figure 9. João’s houses. January 2015. Source: Author.

Photograph of Elisa in the new apartment.

Elisa

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Figure 10. Elisa. January 2015. Source: Author.

Photograph of Jussara and her daughter in the new apartment.

Jussara and her Daughter

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Figure 11. Jussara and her daughter. January 2015. Source: Author.

Photograph of Jussara’s new living room.

Pictures

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Figure 12. Pictures. January 2015. Source: Author.

Photograph of Pedro walking in Residencial Bento Gonçalves.

Pedro

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Figure 13. Pedro. May 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of the Partenon neighborhood seen from the hilltops.

Partenon Seen from the Hillptops

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Figure 14. Partenon seen from the hilltops. August 2012. Source: Author.

Graph of the social dynamics of hope—­from individual to collective hope, from negative to positive hope.

The Social Dynamics of Hope

From Intro 2

Figure 15. The social dynamics of hope—from individual to collective hope, and from negative to positive hope. Source: Author.

Graph of the economic dynamics of hope—­from ideals to configurations of the good life, from individual to collective hope.

The Economic Dynamics of Hope

From Intro 2

Figure 16. The economic dynamics of hope—from ideals to configurations of the good life, and from individual to collective hope. Source: Author.

Photograph of Residencial Ana Paula, Restinga.

Residencial Ana Paula, Restinga

From Chapter 1

Figure 17. Residencial Ana Paula, Restinga. February 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of alleyways in the Maria da Conceição hilltops, Partenon.

Maria da Conceição Hills

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Figure 18. Maria da Conceição hills. February 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of Berenice working at a table at Codespa’s headquarters.

Berenice Working at the Headquarters

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Figure 19. Berenice working at the headquarters. February 2013. Source: Author.

Photograph of Codespa members lining up to fulfill bureaucratic procedures.

Codespa Members Lining up

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Figure 20. Codespa members lining up to fulfill bureaucratic procedures before a meeting. March 2014. Source: Author.

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