Urban alliances. The politics between old and new residents
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Urban alliances asks how newcomers and longstanding residents in Brazilian cities, who face facets of the same post/colonial structures of exclusion, have differential access to privilege and citizenship, how they perceive each other, enter into dialogue, and labour to construct alliances at the fractured locuses they occupy. The project grounds in ethnographic fieldwork in cities like Rio de Janeiro (since 2014) and São Paulo (since 2019). The project conceptualises the politicization of newcomers alongside long-term residents in the 21st century as well as the potential and challenges for solidarity among marginalized populations, be they immigrant, Black, Left and/or Queer. All of them clearly face violent realities of intersectional exclusion grounded in the structures of coloniality of which racism, conservativism, and capitalist exploitation are part. Still, newcomers to Latin American cities defend ethical and political positions that may hold a strong potential for tension and conflict within local contexts of political struggle. Whiteness, negritude, gender/sexuality, and political orientation do not necessarily mean the same to Brazilian residents and African or European newcomers. The project will renew the understanding of global asymmetries and how they configure locally in contemporary Brazil. The refined understanding of local politics and societal resilience will be relevant not only to Latin American cities but also cities in other locations in the Global South and in the Global North.
Ethnographic fieldwork is planned for one to one year over the duration of the project. Funding Maria Sibylla Merian Centre of Advanced Studies Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (2020-2026) Relevant institutional network
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Urban Narratives Fellowship
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