Possession through Dispossession: In Quest of Property and Social Mobility in Urban Brazil

Marie Kolling

Possession through Dispossession: In Quest of Property and Social Mobility in Urban Brazil

Marie Kolling

Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University

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Abstract

This chapter examines the housing struggles of squatters who settled in a public park and heritage site in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, in order to be evicted by the state and resettled to state-built social housing. By analyzing the moral stakes in their quest for property and social mobility in relation to both the values attached to homeownership in Brazil and social housing policies that strongly shaped their strategy of gaining ‘possession through dispossession’, the chapter provides a nuanced understanding of squatters’ contested property claims in contemporary Brazil and sheds new light on otherwise well-known issues of dispossession.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contested Property Claims
Editors	Maja Hojer Bruun, Patrick Joseph Cockburn, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, Mikkel Thorup
Number of pages	16
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	1 Dec 2017
Pages	39-54
ISBN (Print)	978-1-138-55089-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Kolling, M. (2017). Possession through Dispossession: In Quest of Property and Social Mobility in Urban Brazil. In M. H. Bruun, P. J. Cockburn, B. S. Risager, & M. Thorup (Eds.), Contested Property Claims (pp. 39-54). Routledge. https://books.google.dk/books?id=PCBBDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT76&ots=i2-irRZJ91&dq=Possession%20through%20Dispossession%3A%20In%20Quest%20of%20Property%20and%20Social%20Mobility%20in%20Urban%20Brazil&hl=da&pg=PT76#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Possession through Dispossession: In Quest of Property and Social Mobility in Urban Brazil. / Kolling, Marie.
Contested Property Claims. ed. / Maja Hojer Bruun; Patrick Joseph Cockburn; Bjarke Skærlund Risager; Mikkel Thorup. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017. p. 39-54.

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