Mobilising the Periphery

Brazil's My House My Life Programme and the Homeless Workers' Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3816638
AutoresVictor A Albert (0000-0002-0262-826X, Higher School of Economics Russian Federation), Victor Albert (0000-0003-4356-6162, National Research University Higher School of Economics, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume40
Fascículo1
Páginas84-99
Data de publicação2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.13103
OpenAlexW3024400757
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas27

Brazil's Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST, Homeless Workers' Movement) has grown dramatically in recent years. This growth was partly provided for by the use of a large government housing programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, My House My Life), which allowed the MTST to construct housing for its members and swell its ranks with thousands of new members. Yet some have argued that the MCMV programme used by the MTST may compromise the autonomy of civil society organisations. This article, by contrast, argues that while the MCMV programme encouraged bureaucratic practices, it also helped to promote the cultural politics of the MTST

Autonomy · Bureaucracy · Civil society · Compromise · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance