Apartments for workers

Social housing, segregation, and stigmatization in urban Brazil

authored by: Mario Peters
Abstract: Social inequalities are part of most aspects of daily life and have persistently characterised life in Latin American cities. As such, in Brazil and other countries on the South American subcontinent, unequal housing conditions became a visible expression of social inequality during the twentieth century. Since public and academic debates on unequal housing largely focus on impoverished shanty towns and upper-class gated communities, focusing on the history of social housing challenges and reconfigures conventional scholarship.This study explores the complex relationships between housing policies, socio-spatial segregation and the stigmatisation of residents in the Conjunto IAPI in Belo Horizonte. It utilises a range of sources from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, while interviews conducted with residents in the housing complex complement the analysis
Organisation(s): History Department
Type: Monograph
No. of pages: 228
Publication date: 2018
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845286846 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

@book{2be02aa8e6074e5cae8aada279cfdec6,
title = "Apartments for workers: Social housing, segregation, and stigmatization in urban Brazil",
abstract = "Social inequalities are part of most aspects of daily life and have persistently characterised life in Latin American cities. As such, in Brazil and other countries on the South American subcontinent, unequal housing conditions became a visible expression of social inequality during the twentieth century. Since public and academic debates on unequal housing largely focus on impoverished shanty towns and upper-class gated communities, focusing on the history of social housing challenges and reconfigures conventional scholarship.This study explores the complex relationships between housing policies, socio-spatial segregation and the stigmatisation of residents in the Conjunto IAPI in Belo Horizonte. It utilises a range of sources from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, while interviews conducted with residents in the housing complex complement the analysis",
keywords = "Labour & Social Policy, L{\"a}nderstudien (ohne europ{\"a}ische L{\"a}nder), Lateinamerikastudien, History 1945-1990, Urban Communities & Sociology, Stadtsoziologie, Sozialer Wohnungsbau, Social Housing, Various Policy Analyses, Country & Regional Studies, Brasilien, Geschichte 1945-1990, Andere Politikfelder, Sozialpolitik, Brazil, Regional studies (Latin America), Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik",
author = "Mario Peters",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.5771/9783845286846",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-8487-4434-3",
series = "Studien zu Lateinamerika",
publisher = "Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG",
address = "Germany",
edition = "1",
}