The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) is pleased to present:
Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice:
The Right to the City in São Paulo
Book presentation by:Lucy Earle
Author (United Kingdom)
Introduced by:
Michael Cohen
Director Observatory on Latin America, The New School
Comments by:
Nidhi Srinivas
Chair and Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management, The New School
This book analyses the struggle for social justice in São Paulo, Brazil. It takes the wave of protests that began in the city in 2013 as a starting point and grounds them in the history of social movement mobilization in urban Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with a federation of housing movements, this work demonstrates the ongoing relevance of the concept of the right to the city for social movements of the urban poor and examines these movements’ creative interpretation of national legislation to support their claims for housing and urban citizenship.
Lucy Earle is an urban adviser for the UK’s Department for International Development, currently based in the UK’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. Prior to becoming a civil servant she was a post-doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, where she undertook research on access to land and housing in Maputo, Mozambique. She recently published a monograph based on her doctoral thesis that focuses on the housing movements of Sao Paulo, Brazil that are known for their high-profile occupations of abandoned buildings.
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
6:00 – 8:00 PM
University Center, Faculty Lounge | The New School
63 5th Avenue, 7th Floor,
New York,NY
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The event will be in English
Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations are required
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This program is supported by the JULIEN J. STUDLEY FOUNDATION
