Household Histories

Generating Fixity in the Urban Periphery of Northeast Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2230745
AuthorsJessica Jerome (DePaul University, corresponding author), Jessica Scott Jerome
Year2025
Volume81
Issue3
Pages000-000
Publication date2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/736482
OpenAlexW4412124643
LanguageEN
References cited17

In urban peripheral neighborhoods in Northeast Brazil, residents invest significant savings, labor, and time into their homes. Such investment has produced stable housing and inheritable assets for generations of residents. This article uses archival and longitudinal ethnographic data from Barra do Ceará, an urban peripheral neighborhood in Fortaleza, to investigate the daily maintenance, renovation, and upkeep that is necessary to generate stable housing in that community. It draws on the analytic concept of fixity to link the routine maintenance of housing to the regeneration of families, gender inequalities, and political agency in the urban periphery

Archaeology · Economic geography · Geography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History

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