15 August 2011 : Fieldwork Nicolas Bautès

12 July – 15 August 2011 : Brésil – Rio de Janeiro

Location: Harbour zone, favela Morro da Providência.

* Second round of fieldwork (7 days in February 2011)

Main topics:

1. Identification of the actors involved against the renovation operation of the harbour zone of the city, in Porto Maravilha and Morar Carioca (specific in the favela),

• Attitudes and produced discourses: axes of contestation
• What kind of actors for what kind of mobilisation?
• Types of mobilisation and means of resistance

1. Participation to reunions and debates of the Community Forum of the Region of the Harbour, created in May 2011: 3 reunions, more than 30 inhabitants of the favela present
2. Interview of 2 municipal representatives (vereadores, Parti PSOL), of members of the NGO FASE, of 2 university teachers involved against the renovation project, of one political representative of the PT-Biolutas Political Party.
3. Collection of law texts and maps and plans (with R. Soares Gonçalves) linked to the operation of Porto Maravilha.

 

* Organisation and direction with Rafael Soares Gonçalves of a panel at the Xth CONLAB – Congresso Luso-Afro Brasileiro de Ciencias Sociais, “Diversidades e Desigualdades”, Salvador de Bahia, 07-10 August 2011.

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Genoa … June 2011

This fieldwork trip was led in June 2011, and its objective was to study the modes of regulation, in various spaces of the historic centre of Genoa, especially in the Ghetto and waterfront.

Interviews were conducted with the Municipality (security services), the Region, members of associations (of inhabitants, in relation with the mosque of the Ghetto, …), as well as with users of those spaces. They were aimed at understanding the practices and positions related to informal activities. Observations  were also done, mainly on the police interventions in the waterfront, during public meetings, as well as meetings of associations .

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