Social vulnerability management among informal residents and the Covid-19 pandemic

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica2022.i2.a48180

Keywords:

Social vulnerability, Popular housing, Solidarity networks, Fight for rights, Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The article take as object of reflection the understanding of the production processes of deprivation of resources, associated with fundamental rights, managed by the state to a group of working families that, by autonomous initiative, occupied a building in the facilities of Central do Brasil, central region from Rio de Janeiro. Considering the informations collected from the ethnographic research, we highlight the conditions of social vulnerability in which if these families are in their waiting and fighting relationship for the recognition of the housing’s right of the property they have occupied since 2003. We also seek to reflect on the worsening of such conditions of vulnerability due to the imposition of social isolation in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and for whose confrontation social assistance networks mediated by solidarity networks between these families are articulated. We also point out that in this mediation process some residents of the property called Predinho are exemplary articulators.

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Author Biographies

Michelle Lima Domingues, Departamento de Ciências Humanas, Instituto do Noroeste Fluminense de Educação Superior, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Ciências Humanas do Instituto do Noroeste Fluminense de Educação Superior da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Mestre e Doutora em Antropologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Graduada em Ciências Sociais por esta mesma universidade.

Priscila Tavares dos Santos, Centro Universitário Unifacvest

Professora do Mestrado Profissional em Direito e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Centro Universitário Unifacvest. Expert consultant na Syracuse University, desde 2017, no projeto de pesquisa intitulado Helping the Poor Stay Put: Affordable Housing and Non-Peripheralization in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pós-doutora em Antropologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Doutora e Mestre em Antropologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal Fluminense e graduada em Ciências Biológicas pela Faculdade de Formação de Professores da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Published

2022-08-01

How to Cite

Domingues, M. L., & Santos, P. T. dos. (2022). Social vulnerability management among informal residents and the Covid-19 pandemic. Antropolítica - Revista Contemporânea De Antropologia, 54(2). https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica2022.i2.a48180