BETWEEN THE BARRIADAS OF LIMA AND THE OCCUPATIONS OF BELO HORIZONTE

Authors

  • Leticia Araujo Notini Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Tiago Castelo Branco Lourenço Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Keywords:

Popular resistance, Social production of space, Housing, Latin America

Abstract

Urban occupations in Belo Horizonte, a city in southern Brazil, are very similar to the processes concerning the barriadas in Lima, Peru, since the 1940’s. Exploring the similarities between Belo Horizonte’s occupation and other kinds of social struggles in Latin America, we are able to see that this is not a local movement; they are an expression of a broader social resistance. Analyzing such self-production and self-building experiences in Latin America means weaving a complex fabric of social resistance strategies particularly related to the Latin-American context. This bond highlights the fact that such developments in Belo Horizonte are similar to situations experienced by other latinamerican countries concerning the questioning of the condition of exclusion of broader sections of their populations. The comparison of these experiences helps to enlighten and underline the spatial and temporal continuities and discontinuities regarding the struggle for urban land and social struggles in Latin America.

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Author Biographies

Leticia Araujo Notini, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

She is an Architect and Urban Planner. She is currently a researcher for the UNSCORRE group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a member of the Architects without Borders Association (ASF Brazil), and a militant of the Fight in Neighborhoods, Vilas and Favelas Movement (MLB).

Tiago Castelo Branco Lourenço, Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

He is a model maker, has a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and is a doctoral candidate in Architecture and Urbanism. He currently teaches at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais and at the Department of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is a researcher for the Morar de Outros Maneiras group, coordinator of the UNSCORRE group, and a member of the Architects without Borders Association (ASF Brazil).

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Published

2021-07-17

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 22 (2021): V!22 Latin America: You are Here!

Section

Ágora