A apropriação do espaço no Bairro "Luta pela Casa": As práticas do alojamento

Abstract

The process of housing appropriation has been studied within cultural anthropology, semiotics and psycho-sociology more frequently than the object of sociological investigation. Consequently, an alternative approach to studying this subject is proposed. Housing not only consumes physical space where everyday life occurs. It is also the place where the relationships, identities (forms of sociability, neighbourhood relations, etc.) and different forms of appropriation and use are apparent. In addition, housing appropriation is analysed not only as an architectural-urban configuration. It is also effected by social practices which recreate the relationship of production and consumption.