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Sep 19, 2011 Comments Off on Self Determined Participatory Action of Marginalized Groups: The streets of São Paulo

Self Determined Participatory Action of Marginalized Groups: The streets of São Paulo

My master thesis is finished for now. It is available for download on this blog and at archive.org

thesis @ noblogs [pdf]
thesis @ archive.org [pdf]

update 2011.11.29: this version is the first unreviewed/uncorrected version. The text version available on this blog will already be corrected.

The introductory chapter is online already, the remaining parts will follow in the next weeks. I would like to make the whole document available on this blog, plus additional corrections, translations and content that did not enter the thesis but that I feel important and that I do not want to loose.

Let’s start with the Introduction

Writing this introduction feels a bit strange. Its is an introduction to my master thesisbut at the same time it is a retrospect, not only about the time I spent in São Paulo, as the thesis title is already revealing, but also a retrospective on what I did since then until this very moment, an imagination of this time in guise of a rhizomatic map, ‚a map that must be produced, constructed, a map that is always detachable,connectible, reversible, modifiable, and has multiple entryways and exits and its own lines of flight‘ as Deleuze and Guattari write in ‚A Thousand Plateaus‘.

Jan 19, 2011 Comments Off on Links::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

Links::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

Complete links list for Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

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Jan 19, 2011 Comments Off on References::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

References::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

Complete reference list for Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

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Jan 19, 2011 Comments Off on Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

The aim of this paper is to give an overview about the right to the city. The right to the city is a concept that is part of the discourse about contemporary urban development with its accompanied and resulting social inequalities. It is referred to in institutional discourse on international level by UN-Habitat/UNESCO, on city level in form of statutes that intends to grant more rights to city dwellers (such as in Brazil and Mexico) but emerges also in various forms in the struggle of (urban) social movements and grassroots groups all over the world. Therefore it seems to be interesting to take a closer look to its roots that has been initially planted by the French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

Due to its complexity, it is not the aim of this paper to comprehensively lay out the right to the city to its full extend and in all its possible forms and facets. The paper focus on the basic concepts and takes a further look at contemporary interpretations of scholars such as David Harvey and Manuel Castells. Hence, the right to the city is used here primarily to describe the development of the ‘capitalist city’, its negative effects for its inhabitants and the potential utopias that could be made possible, in contrast to other approaches such as the ‘creative city’ developed by urban theorists like Richard Florida.

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Jun 14, 2010 Comments Off on documentação: contato com movimento sociais e coletivos para pesquisa

documentação: contato com movimento sociais e coletivos para pesquisa

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A lista seguinte mostra os movimentos
sociais e coletivos que foram contatados para propor uma realização
da pesquisa ou para pedir informações que podem ser interessante
para a pesquisa em geral.

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Jun 14, 2010 Comments Off on documentation: contact to social movements for field work

documentation: contact to social movements for field work

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The following list shows social movements/collectives that have been contacted for the realization of the field work or for information related to the research for this thesis.

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Jun 14, 2010 Comments Off on proposta de oficina: como organizar o projeto – mapear e relatar

proposta de oficina: como organizar o projeto – mapear e relatar

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Depois a comunidade avaliaria a viabilidade do
projeto da pesquisa, uma infraestrutura organizacional dever ser
formado para administrar o projeto numa forma autônomo e autogeriodo
por a mesma comunidade.

A proposta seguinte podia ser um diretriz para a
realização das oficinas que se tratam das questões da
implementação do projeto.

Objetivo: formação de grupos de trabalho que
tratam os vários aspectos do projeto. Os grupos de trabalho estão
aberto para todas as pessoas, com e sem conhecimento necessário, e
pediam ser formado durante os oficinas. O conhecimento necessário
tem que ser discutido e transferido para os participantes para
facilitar os a trabalhar numa maneira autônomo. Alem disso, as
pessoas podiam transferir seu próprio conhecimento para outras
pessoas por que eles/elas são multiplicadores/as para a própria e
outras comunidades.

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Jun 14, 2010 Comments Off on workshop proposal: how to organize the mapping and reporting project

workshop proposal: how to organize the mapping and reporting project

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Once the feasibility
and usefulness of the research project is assured by the local
community/people, an organisational structure has to be established
which allows the project to be managed in an autonomous and
self-organized manner by the people itself.

The following proposal could serve as a guideline for the conduction of a
series of workshops that cover the concrete questions of the
implementation of the project.

Objective: creation of workgroups that cover the different aspects of
the project. The workgroups are open to all members of the community,
with or without corresponding knowledge, and could be formed during the
workshops. All knowledge necessary shall be discussed and transfered to
the participants in order to enable them to work autonomously. Further
on, the people could pass their knowledge to other people, thus they are
multiplicators for their own and probably other communities.

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Jun 12, 2010 Comments Off on discussão inicial sobre a proposta da pesquisa

discussão inicial sobre a proposta da pesquisa

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Antes do começo do projeto real da pesquisa, uma
(ou mais) discussões ou oficinas seriam ser realizado com as
pessoas, comunidades ou coletivos que têm interesse em relatar,
mapear e usar informações para o aumento da própria luta.

Uma discussão/oficina é um pré-requisito
necessário por que a tem vários intenções:

conhecer a situação e o contexto local em que as
pessoas vivem, para entender os desejos , necessidades e obrigações delas.

introducão ao concepto e as possibilidades de
mapeamento com dispositivos moveis

conhecer as restrições que
existem na situação da vida das pessoas – restrições financeiras:
falta de dinheiro de mandar SMS ou possuir um celular; restrições
educativa – analfabetismo, exclusão digital; restrições sociais –
gênero, idade.

Objetivos: a discussão tencionado deve prover possibilidades de trocar conhecimento e saber (técnico, do ambiente urbana, das questões da comunidade) em duas direções e deve ser usado para avaliar a viabilidade do projeto. A metodologia do projeto está muito flexível e dá espaço para ajustar a para o contexto local.

Próximos passos: Quando a comunidade avalia que o
projeto é viável e faz sentido para ela, o projeto poder ser
realizado. A próxima proposta é de realizar uma cadeia de oficinas
que cobrem as questões da organização e implementação do
projeto. As oficinas podiam ser basedas nos frutos da discussão de viabilidade.

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initial discussion of project proposal

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Before the research project can be started, a discussion (or
several discussions) shall take place with people from local
communities or collectives that show interest in the reporting and
mapping project.

A discussion is absolutely necessary due to the following reasons:

learn about the situation of the people and in order to get to know
the peoples wishes, necessities and their local context.

introduction of the concept of the mapping project to the people

learn about
constraints that are imposed on them, ie. financial constraints –
no money to send sms, educational constraints – illiteracy, social
constraints – gender issues, age.

Objectives: the intended discussions shall provide possibilities for knowledge exchange in both directions and shall be used to assess the
feasibility of the project in the environment the people life in. Due
to the fact that the project proposal is not fixed at all, a great
variety of possibilities exist for adjustment to the local context.

Next Steps: once the community decides that the project is feasible and usefull for them, the project can be realized. The proposal is to conduct a series of workshops that would cover the questions of the concrete organization and implementation of the project. The wokshops could be based on the results of the initial feasibility discussion.

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Self Determined Participatory Action of Marginalized Groups: The streets of São Paulo

Links::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

References::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

documentação: contato com movimento sociais e coletivos para pesquisa

documentation: contact to social movements for field work

proposta de oficina: como organizar o projeto – mapear e relatar

workshop proposal: how to organize the mapping and reporting project

discussão inicial sobre a proposta da pesquisa

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