Perpetual transience: the socio-ecological marginalization of São Paulo’s peripheries
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2024229903Keywords:
socio-ecological marginalisation, everyday practices, narrative ethnography, temporal resistances, self-help urbanismAbstract
In times of growing social inequality and ecological emergency, inaccessibility to housing pushes poor populations to settle in fragile ecological reserves. Through empirical research in the southern periphery of São Paulo, this article addresses the confluence of these social and environmental crises by analysing how the everyday practices of marginalised communities produce far-reaching territorial transformations. Through three multi-scalar stories, it examines the transformative relationship between marginalised populations and ecologies through the changing temporality of a series of local inhabiting practices that evolve from improvised squatting and minimal landscape manipulation to permanent settlement structures and ecological transfigurations. The article explores different temporalities of inhabiting practices and compares how different levels of oppression generate different socio-ecological relations. These mutating socio-ecological relations - dependency, decay and socio-ecological marginalisation - offer a temporal reflection for understanding the double 'tragedy in the making' epitomised by the socio-ecological marginalisation of São Paulo's southern periphery, where nature and city collide.
Downloads
References
Agnew, John, Fred Shelley, and Dennis G Pringle. "Agnew, Ja 1987: Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society." Progress in human geography 27, no. 5 (2003): 605-14.
Alves, Beatriz Truffi, Cecília Ferreira Saccuti, Daniela Desgualdo Pires Osório Bueno, Denise Scabin Pereira, Gabriela de Abreu Grizzo, Gustavo Leonardi Garcia, Luciana de Abreu Nascimento, et al. "Billings." São Paulo: SMA/CEA (2010).
Baeninger, Rosana. "São Paulo E Suas Migrações No Final Do Século 20." São Paulo em perspectiva 19 (2005): 84-96.
Brito, Fausto Alves de. "As Migrações Internas E as Estatísticas Nacionais." Revista Brasileira de Geografia, Rio de Janeiro, FIBGE 35, no. 2 (1973).
de Lima Amaral, Ernesto Friedrich. "Brazil: Internal Migration." The encyclopedia of global human migration (2013).
de Marchi, Francisco. "Velhos ‘Flashes’ No Reino Do Café." A Tribuna, no. 69 (1991).
de Mendonça, Lycia. "A Política Habitacional a Partir De 1964." Revista de Ciência Política 23, no. 3 (1980): 141-61.
Dean, Warren. The Industrialization of São Paulo, 1800-1945. University of Texas Press, 1969.
Escobar, Arturo. "Culture Sits in Places: Reflections on Globalism and Subaltern Strategies of Localization." Political geography 20, no. 2 (2001): 139-74.
———. Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Duke University Press, 2008.
Fernandes, Bernardo Mançano. "O Mst E as Reformas Agrárias Do Brasil." Boletim Data Luta (2008): 1-10.
Fix, Mariana. "Parceiros Da Exclusão." São Paulo: Boitempo 201 (2001).
Fix, Mariana, and Pedro Fiori Arantes. "On Urban Studies in Brazil: The Favela, Uneven Urbanisation and Beyond." Urban Studies 59, no. 5 (2022): 893-916.
Fontes, Luiz Laerte "Mairinque Vai a Santos." MUSEU VIRTUAL A.M.P.F. - MAIRINQUE, 2006.
Furtado, Celso. The Economic Growth of Brazil: A Survey from Colonial to Modern Times. Vol. 10: Univ of California Press, 1963.
Governo de Sao Paulo, SP. "Justificativa: Historia Do Surgimento Do Bairro Engenheiro Marsilac." http://documentacao.camara.sp.gov.br/iah/fulltext/justificativa/JPL0303-2003.pdf. São Paulo, Brazil, 2003.
Hauser, Henri. "Japanese Immigration in Brazil." New Mexico Quarterly 12, no. 1 (1942): 3.
Hordijk, Michaela. "A Dream of Green and Water: Community Based Formulation of a Local Agenda 21 in Peri-Urban Lima." Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 2 (1999): 11-30.
Jorge, Janes. "Morar No Extremo Sul De São Paulo: Sociedade E Natureza Na Região Da Guarapiranga Em Meados Do Século 20." Cadernos CEDES 40 (2020): 266-75.
Latour, Bruno, and Catherine Porter. "We Have Never Been Modern [1991]." Contemporary Sociological Theory (1993): 448.
Maricato, Erminia. "Metrópoles Desgovernadas." Estudos avançados 25 (2011): 7-22.
Martins, Maria Lucia Refinetti Rodrigues. "Moradia Social E Meio Ambiente: Tensão E Diálogo Na Metrópole." (2005).
Miranda, Regina. "Área De Proteção Ambiental Capivari-Monos, Uma Historia." Departamento de Unidades de Conservação da Secretaria do Meio Ambiente da Prefeitura de São Paulo, 2018.
Olsender, Ulrich. The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016.
Oslender, Ulrich. "Fleshing out the Geographies of Social Movements: Colombia's Pacific Coast Black Communities and the ‘Aquatic Space’." Political Geography 23, no. 8 (2004): 957-85.
———. The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space. Duke University Press, 2016.
Oyeyinka, Oyebanji. São Paulo: A Tale of Two Cities. Vol. 1: UN-HABITAT, 2010.
Peek, Olga, Nelson Carofilis, and Viviana d’Auria. "Co-Producing Alternative Urban Imaginaries in the Contested Riverbank Settlements of Guayaquil, Ecuador." In Communities, Land and Social Innovation, 166-80: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
Porto-Gonçalves, Carlos Walter. "A Geograficidade Do Social: Uma Contribuição Para O Debate Metodológico Para O Estudo De Conflitos E Movimentos Sociais Na América Latina." Revista Eletrônica da Associação dos Geógrafos Brasileiros, Seção Três Lagoas (2006): 5-26.
Relph, Edward. Place and Placelessness. Vol. 67: Pion London, 1976.
Rizek, Cibele Saliba. "Políticas Sociais E Políticas De Cultura: Territórios E Privatizações Cruzadas." Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais 15, no. 2 (2013): 199-99.
Rolnik, Raquel. São Paulo: Planejamento Da Desigualdade. Fósforo, 2022.
———. Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance. Verso Books, 2019.
Routledge, Paul. "Backstreets, Barricades, and Blackouts: Urban Terrains of Resistance in Nepal." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 12, no. 5 (1994): 559-78.
———. "Terrains of Resistance: Nonviolent Social Movements and the Contestation of Place in India." (No Title) (1993).
Roy, Manoj, Sally Cawood, Michaela Hordijk, and David Hulme. Urban Poverty and Climate Change. Taylor & Francis, 2016.
Scott, Jim. "Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance." The Journal of Peasant Studies 13, no. 2 (1986/01/01 1986): 5-35.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. U of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Wolford, Wendy. This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil. Duke University Press, 2010.
