“From maloca to maloca: the making family and making politics in the streets of São Bernardo do Campo (2024)” by Leandro Carneiro de Souza | Masters Thesis

Abstract: “This dissertation analyzes the relationships and practices within the everyday context of the street population in São Bernardo do Campo. The text demonstrates how relational processes engender specific situations within the shantytowns (malocas) , which promote, on one hand, the mutuality of the actors through the emic agency of the family notion, and, on the other hand, the borders that are erected in contexts of tension and conflict. The analytical categories of making family and making politics pertain to scrutinizing the dynamics of contradictions and disparate interactional forces that involve coexistence in shantytowns (malocas). Through them and from a situational perspective, the aim to deepen the debate on kinship and politics that are fabricated in the streets in order to reflect on ways of making the city”

 

This master’s thesis, written by Leandro Carneiro de Souza and supervised by Prof. Dr. José Guilherme Cantor Magnani, was defended in 2024 in the Master’s program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. A copy of the dissertation is available in Portuguese at USP’s Repository.

 

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2024

AUTORES

Leandro Carneiro de Souza

EDITORES

Prof. Dr. José Guilherme Cantor Magnani