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Lively Infrastructure


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Article

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Authors

Amin, A 

Abstract

jats:pThis paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, the paper argues that infrastructures – visible and invisible – are deeply implicated in not only the making and unmaking of individual lives, but also in the experience of community, solidarity and struggle for recognition. Infrastructure is proposed as a gathering force and political intermediary of considerable significance in shaping the rights of the poor to the city and their capacity to claim those rights.</jats:p>

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Keywords

favelas, infrastructure, occupations, rights to the city, sociality, solidarity

Journal Title

Theory, Culture &amp; Society

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Journal ISSN

0263-2764
1460-3616

Volume Title

31

Publisher

SAGE Publications