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Bristol University Press eBooks, Aug 11, 2017
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Feb 23, 2023
CIDADES, Cimunidades e Territórios, 2019
Nesta entrevista aborda questões relacionadas com o balanço do PER em Lisboa, o Programa de Renda... more Nesta entrevista aborda questões relacionadas com o balanço do PER em Lisboa, o Programa de Renda Acessível de Lisboa, o papel dos seus pelouros no mitigar dos problemas resultantes da atual atratividade imobiliária de Lisboa e dos correspondentes processos de gentrificação, bem como quais as cidades com cujas políticas habitacionais se revê. Começando pelo balanço do Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER), há uma narrativa de que em Lisboa já está há muito resolvido, mas no levantamento de necessidades de realojamento habitacional de 2018 do Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana (IHRU) existem ainda cerca de 2000 famílias que a câmara indicou para realojamento...
CIDADES, Cimunidades e Territórios, 2019
Ana Pinho é Secretária de Estado da Habitação e foi responsável pelo lançamento da Nova Geração d... more Ana Pinho é Secretária de Estado da Habitação e foi responsável pelo lançamento da Nova Geração de Políticas de Habitação (NGPH), entre as quais se incluem programas como o 1º Direito-Programa de Apoio ao Acesso à Habitação, para famílias em situação habitacional grave, ou o Programa de Arrendamento Acessível. Arquitecta, doutorada em Planeamento Urbano (FA-UTL, 2009), trabalhou como investigadora na área da reabilitação urbana entre 2001 e 2012 no LNEC, tendo mais tarde uma passagem pela FundiEstamo, empresa de gestão de activos imobiliários públicos. Nesta entrevista aborda questões sobre a capacidade de implementação do 1º Direito, os princípios subjacentes aos programas de realojamento e de rendas acessíveis, o acesso à habitação face à atractividade imobiliária de Lisboa e Porto para investidores internacionais bem como os seus modelos de habitação internacionais de referência. Começávamos pelas populações mais vulneráveis, pelo 1º Direito. Será um investimento direto do Estado, pelo menos numa parte muito substancial, para dar resposta aos 25 ou 26 mil agregados recenseados no Levantamento Nacional das Necessidades de Realojamento Habitacional finalizado em Fevereiro de 2018. A nossa pergunta relaciona-se com os 40 milhões de euros orçamentados para 2019 para o programa, fazendo um exercício relativo à ordem de grandeza desse orçamento. Se pensarmos em três núcleos, como por exemplo Vale de Chícharos (vulgo Jamaika no Seixal), Santa Marta de Corroios (Seixal) e o Segundo Torrão (Almada), resolver apenas esses três, que são mil agregados dos 26 mil, custaria logo os 40 milhões. Como é que se vai chegar aos restantes?
Global Gentrifications, 2015
Following engineers and architects through slums: the tech-noscience of slum intervention in the ... more Following engineers and architects through slums: the tech-noscience of slum intervention in the Portuguese-speaking landscape. This article revisits the long genealogy of State intervention in informal settlements and poorly built environments throughout the 20 th century, in cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Maputo or Macau, to better frame some socio-technical complexities involved in the current project of slum rehabilitation in Cova da Moura, Lisbon. Then, it draws upon ethnographic research with experts from the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (lnec) during a scientific assessment of informal dwellings to show that the "evaluation" of informal dwellings with a view to "reconfigure" them, is a socio-technical operation based on a "laboratorisation" of the dwelling, but one that is crucially dependent on the subjective-objective experience of experts. Seguindo engenheiros e arquitetos pelas barracas: a tecno-ciência da intervenç...
Timespace and International Migration
Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Antipode, 2018
Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal, for decades. This article atten... more Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal, for decades. This article attends to the makeshift natures made by black migrants from Portugal's former colonies, and the racial urban geography thrown into relief by the differing fortunes of white Portuguese community gardening spaces. Conceptualizing urban gardens as commons-in-the-making, we explore subaltern urbanism and the emergence of autonomous gardening commons on the one hand, and the state erasure, overwriting or construction of top-down commons on the other. While showing that urban gardening forges commons of varying persistence, we also demonstrate the ways through which the commons are always closely entwined with processes of enclosure. We further argue that urban gardening commons are divergent and cannot be judged against any abstract ideal of the commons. In conclusion, we suggest that urban gardening commons do not have a 'common' in common.
CIDADES, Cimunidades e Territórios, 2019
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017
ABSTRACT The arrival in Portugal of recent migrants from the Indian subcontinent is normally a se... more ABSTRACT The arrival in Portugal of recent migrants from the Indian subcontinent is normally a secondary movement from within Europe tied to the search for a regular pathway into legal integration in the EU. However, as favourable migration policy is not paired with easy economic integration onward migration is common. We argue that such complex migration strategies cannot be amply explored through an origin–destination model; instead we suggest that a translocal perspective provides a framework to examine connections and experiences of emplacement in places of passage/reception like Lisbon. Through a qualitative study of the migration journeys and emplaced practices of Punjabi migrants in Lisbon, our findings highlight relationality between multiple scales, elucidating how agency and structure interact at micro and macro levels in shaping migration experiences and outcomes. We show how the materiality of local community structures ensures the navigation of daily life in the city and provides pathways toward legality contributing to wider mobility regimes. Moreover, we illustrate how onward migration represents an individual strategy to realise different aspects of integration in other EU destinations challenging nation-state-bound understandings of citizenship/settlement and integration.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015
This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and post... more This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and postcolonial immigrants in Lisbon's periphery from the 1970s to the present. Cyborg does not stand for a neo-organicist or cybernetic understanding of the informal city but rather for the conjunction of the multiple enactments of city life under conditions of urban informality-in this case the fourfold combination of history/migration; architecture/low-fi technologies; inhabitation/body/memory; and governmentality/urban capital. The 40-year event of settlement and inhabitation is presented through an ethnographic micro-history of one neighbourhood in particular, with a strong focus on slum dwellers' life stories, on the details of the artefact-machines they have built, their informal dwellings, and on their social and mental experience of place. Responding to recent calls for multidisciplinary ethnographies of informality, the article brings the specificity of Lisbon's informal settlements-their growth based in postcolonial rather than rural migrations-into current debates on informal urbanisms and geographies of sociotechnical urban assemblages.
Uneven development and displacement, 2015
Planning Perspectives, 2011
•Date: 14-03-2011 •Journal: Planning Perspectives •Volume: 26 •Issue: 2 •Pages: 325-327 •Publicat... more •Date: 14-03-2011 •Journal: Planning Perspectives •Volume: 26 •Issue: 2 •Pages: 325-327 •Publication type: Review •Bibliographic status: Published
Bristol University Press eBooks, Aug 11, 2017
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Feb 23, 2023
CIDADES, Cimunidades e Territórios, 2019
Nesta entrevista aborda questões relacionadas com o balanço do PER em Lisboa, o Programa de Renda... more Nesta entrevista aborda questões relacionadas com o balanço do PER em Lisboa, o Programa de Renda Acessível de Lisboa, o papel dos seus pelouros no mitigar dos problemas resultantes da atual atratividade imobiliária de Lisboa e dos correspondentes processos de gentrificação, bem como quais as cidades com cujas políticas habitacionais se revê. Começando pelo balanço do Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER), há uma narrativa de que em Lisboa já está há muito resolvido, mas no levantamento de necessidades de realojamento habitacional de 2018 do Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana (IHRU) existem ainda cerca de 2000 famílias que a câmara indicou para realojamento...
CIDADES, Cimunidades e Territórios, 2019
Ana Pinho é Secretária de Estado da Habitação e foi responsável pelo lançamento da Nova Geração d... more Ana Pinho é Secretária de Estado da Habitação e foi responsável pelo lançamento da Nova Geração de Políticas de Habitação (NGPH), entre as quais se incluem programas como o 1º Direito-Programa de Apoio ao Acesso à Habitação, para famílias em situação habitacional grave, ou o Programa de Arrendamento Acessível. Arquitecta, doutorada em Planeamento Urbano (FA-UTL, 2009), trabalhou como investigadora na área da reabilitação urbana entre 2001 e 2012 no LNEC, tendo mais tarde uma passagem pela FundiEstamo, empresa de gestão de activos imobiliários públicos. Nesta entrevista aborda questões sobre a capacidade de implementação do 1º Direito, os princípios subjacentes aos programas de realojamento e de rendas acessíveis, o acesso à habitação face à atractividade imobiliária de Lisboa e Porto para investidores internacionais bem como os seus modelos de habitação internacionais de referência. Começávamos pelas populações mais vulneráveis, pelo 1º Direito. Será um investimento direto do Estado, pelo menos numa parte muito substancial, para dar resposta aos 25 ou 26 mil agregados recenseados no Levantamento Nacional das Necessidades de Realojamento Habitacional finalizado em Fevereiro de 2018. A nossa pergunta relaciona-se com os 40 milhões de euros orçamentados para 2019 para o programa, fazendo um exercício relativo à ordem de grandeza desse orçamento. Se pensarmos em três núcleos, como por exemplo Vale de Chícharos (vulgo Jamaika no Seixal), Santa Marta de Corroios (Seixal) e o Segundo Torrão (Almada), resolver apenas esses três, que são mil agregados dos 26 mil, custaria logo os 40 milhões. Como é que se vai chegar aos restantes?
Global Gentrifications, 2015
Following engineers and architects through slums: the tech-noscience of slum intervention in the ... more Following engineers and architects through slums: the tech-noscience of slum intervention in the Portuguese-speaking landscape. This article revisits the long genealogy of State intervention in informal settlements and poorly built environments throughout the 20 th century, in cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Maputo or Macau, to better frame some socio-technical complexities involved in the current project of slum rehabilitation in Cova da Moura, Lisbon. Then, it draws upon ethnographic research with experts from the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (lnec) during a scientific assessment of informal dwellings to show that the "evaluation" of informal dwellings with a view to "reconfigure" them, is a socio-technical operation based on a "laboratorisation" of the dwelling, but one that is crucially dependent on the subjective-objective experience of experts. Seguindo engenheiros e arquitetos pelas barracas: a tecno-ciência da intervenç...
Timespace and International Migration
Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Antipode, 2018
Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal, for decades. This article atten... more Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal, for decades. This article attends to the makeshift natures made by black migrants from Portugal's former colonies, and the racial urban geography thrown into relief by the differing fortunes of white Portuguese community gardening spaces. Conceptualizing urban gardens as commons-in-the-making, we explore subaltern urbanism and the emergence of autonomous gardening commons on the one hand, and the state erasure, overwriting or construction of top-down commons on the other. While showing that urban gardening forges commons of varying persistence, we also demonstrate the ways through which the commons are always closely entwined with processes of enclosure. We further argue that urban gardening commons are divergent and cannot be judged against any abstract ideal of the commons. In conclusion, we suggest that urban gardening commons do not have a 'common' in common.
CIDADES, Cimunidades e Territórios, 2019
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017
ABSTRACT The arrival in Portugal of recent migrants from the Indian subcontinent is normally a se... more ABSTRACT The arrival in Portugal of recent migrants from the Indian subcontinent is normally a secondary movement from within Europe tied to the search for a regular pathway into legal integration in the EU. However, as favourable migration policy is not paired with easy economic integration onward migration is common. We argue that such complex migration strategies cannot be amply explored through an origin–destination model; instead we suggest that a translocal perspective provides a framework to examine connections and experiences of emplacement in places of passage/reception like Lisbon. Through a qualitative study of the migration journeys and emplaced practices of Punjabi migrants in Lisbon, our findings highlight relationality between multiple scales, elucidating how agency and structure interact at micro and macro levels in shaping migration experiences and outcomes. We show how the materiality of local community structures ensures the navigation of daily life in the city and provides pathways toward legality contributing to wider mobility regimes. Moreover, we illustrate how onward migration represents an individual strategy to realise different aspects of integration in other EU destinations challenging nation-state-bound understandings of citizenship/settlement and integration.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015
This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and post... more This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and postcolonial immigrants in Lisbon's periphery from the 1970s to the present. Cyborg does not stand for a neo-organicist or cybernetic understanding of the informal city but rather for the conjunction of the multiple enactments of city life under conditions of urban informality-in this case the fourfold combination of history/migration; architecture/low-fi technologies; inhabitation/body/memory; and governmentality/urban capital. The 40-year event of settlement and inhabitation is presented through an ethnographic micro-history of one neighbourhood in particular, with a strong focus on slum dwellers' life stories, on the details of the artefact-machines they have built, their informal dwellings, and on their social and mental experience of place. Responding to recent calls for multidisciplinary ethnographies of informality, the article brings the specificity of Lisbon's informal settlements-their growth based in postcolonial rather than rural migrations-into current debates on informal urbanisms and geographies of sociotechnical urban assemblages.
Uneven development and displacement, 2015
Planning Perspectives, 2011
•Date: 14-03-2011 •Journal: Planning Perspectives •Volume: 26 •Issue: 2 •Pages: 325-327 •Publicat... more •Date: 14-03-2011 •Journal: Planning Perspectives •Volume: 26 •Issue: 2 •Pages: 325-327 •Publication type: Review •Bibliographic status: Published
This presentation draws on an enlarged view of the history of state intervention in informal sett... more This presentation draws on an enlarged view of the history of state intervention in informal settlements and poor built environments throughout the 20th century, in cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Luanda, Maputo or Macao; as well as on ethnographic research with experts from the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) during the scientific assessment of informal dwellings in the neighbourhood of Cova da Moura, Lisbon, made with a view to rehabilitate them; to discuss some political and socio-technical complexities of slum intervention.
At the centre of the complex arrangements between engineering, architectural and social knowledge is the will of the central government and municipal authorities to grant the population of the settlement their ‘right to the city’ – in the sense of the in situ rehabilitation of substandard dwellings instead of directing people to social housing elsewhere, i.e. displacement. I use insights from STS applied to the built environment (Gieryn 2002, Jacobs 2006, Hommels 2009) to show how the current ‘unbuilding’ and ‘reconfiguration’ of the dwellings in Cova da Moura not only is based on the adaptation of scientific knowledge from formal housing, (namely through a ‘laboratorisation’ of the dwelling); but that it is dependent on the intense, subjective-objective and embodied experience of the experts that evaluate the dwellings; i.e. it is dependent on people as scientific instruments (Derksen 2010).