ABSTRACT

Struggles against eviction are key moments in the (re)production of informal housing in Brazilian cities, as they contest the uprooting and displacement of generally low-income families. While recent research has focused on displacement due to the World Cup and Olympic Games mega-events, this paper explores struggles against eviction that are less high profile, underscoring the distributed nature of evictions in processes of urban change. Drawing on long term fieldwork, this paper examines three cases of struggles against eviction in different cities in the southeast of Brazil. This comparison highlights the everyday contestations that take place across varied geo-political terrain; the morphological constraints and opportunities for collective action of building as opposed to land occupations; the punitive and cooperative state logics with which threatened communities must engage; and drawing on recent attempts in geography to combine theorisations of territory, place, network and scale, contributes to understanding the polymorphy of spatial struggles in contemporary Brazil.

摘要

反对驱逐的斗争是巴西城市非正规住房（重新）生产的关键时刻，因为它们与普遍低收入家庭的背井离乡和流离失所抗争。虽然最近的研究集中在世界杯和奥运会大型赛事引起的流离失所，但本文探讨了不那么引人注目的反对驱逐的斗争，强调了城市变化过程中驱逐的分布性质。本文利用长期的实地调查研究了巴西东南部不同城市反驱逐的三个案例。这种比较突出了在不同地缘政治领域发生的日常争论；与土地占用相对的建筑集体行动的形态限制和机会；受威胁社区必须参与的惩罚性和合作性国家逻辑；并利用最近的地理学尝试将领土、地点、网络和规模的理论结合起来，有助于理解当代巴西空间斗争的多态性。