Based on research with current and former housing activists in São Paulo, this article identifies the concept of “politics of worthiness” as central to the moral justification and technical legitimation of social movements. Attributions of worthiness have long upheld the relationship between institutionalized grassroots organizations and the state but are equally present in everyday life and social distinctions among Brazil's popular classes. By examining contrasting constructions of worthiness among both present-day housing movements and residents of areas that are the product of past mobilizations, the article contends that collective experiences of mobilization in dialogue with myriad external influences produce diverse and often ambivalent political subjectivities. The politics of worthiness sheds light on how these actors organize themselves, experience participation, and square universalist demands with the contingent solidarities and changing social, institutional, and political realities that they inhabit.

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圣保罗的住房运动和价值政治

根据对圣保罗现任和前任住房活动家的研究，本文将“价值政治”的概念确定为社会运动的道德正当性和技术合法性的核心。价值属性长期以来一直维护制度化的草根组织与国家之间的关系，但同样存在于巴西大众阶层的日常生活和社会差异中。通过研究当今住房运动和作为过去动员产物的地区居民之间的价值构建对比，本文认为，在与无数外部影响的对话中，动员的集体经验产生了多样化且往往是矛盾的政治主体性。