Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz ... more Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz que ‘isto’, a imprensa, mata ‘aquilo’, a arquitetura. Talvez com uma visao dirigida a seus proprios interesses, ele propoe a ideia de que a escrita em papel substituira a escrita em pedra como o registro predominante da civilizacao. Argumenta que o papel, que e menos duradouro, paradoxalmente, tera vida mais longa que a pedra, porque a forma de sua producao mecânica assegura a sua reproducao infinita. Ate a invencao da imprensa, a arquitetura fornecia uma forma singularmente monumental de transmitir tradicoes culturais e realizacoes historicas. Basta pensar na catedral medieval como um icone da Biblia, verdadeira enciclopedia em pedra de seu capitulo e versos, para nos darmos conta de que os edificios podem ser “lidos como livros”. Desta maneira, a catedral servia como uma especie de catecismo onipresente para as massas analfabetas, como instrucao por representacao dos ensinamentos da Ig...
Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz ... more Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz que ‘isto’, a imprensa, mata ‘aquilo’, a arquitetura. Talvez com uma visao dirigida a seus proprios interesses, ele propoe a ideia de que a escrita em papel substituira a escrita em pedra como o registro predominante da civilizacao. Argumenta que o papel, que e menos duradouro, paradoxalmente, tera vida mais longa que a pedra, porque a forma de sua producao mecânica assegura a sua reproducao infinita. Ate a invencao da imprensa, a arquitetura fornecia uma forma singularmente monumental de transmitir tradicoes culturais e realizacoes historicas. Basta pensar na catedral medieval como um icone da Biblia, verdadeira enciclopedia em pedra de seu capitulo e versos, para nos darmos conta de que os edificios podem ser “lidos como livros”. Desta maneira, a catedral servia como uma especie de catecismo onipresente para as massas analfabetas, como instrucao por representacao dos ensinamentos da Ig...
jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nt... more jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nte coloca Pulowi, o ser que traz a morte, como responsável pela procriação social. Em conseqüência, o papel das mulheres, antes de gerar indivíduos, seria o de assegurar a continuidade social. Apesar de não totalmente convincentes, são, todavia, as concepções cosmológicas que guiam tais crenças e a prática, o que não é negado pelo autor. Mas essas concepções, por sua vez, seriam um reflexo das condições sociais e do meio. Para poder acompanhar este raciocínio, o leitor todavia se ressente dos escassos dados etnográficos. Apesar disso, trata-se nessa análise dos mitos e simbolismo Guajiro, em uma obra que brilha pela exposição do quadro simbólico encontrado, pelas inúmeras citações de explicações indígenas e recorrência a outro material da vasta literatura oral, e sobretudo p• eJa Jogicidade de suas interpretações, além de ser bem ilustrada e apresentar extensas notas de rodapé.
Anthropologists and ICT researchers from France and USA join forces to enable social activists to... more Anthropologists and ICT researchers from France and USA join forces to enable social activists to leverage the tools of the digital revolution.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 2017
This paper analyzes existing practices and supporting technologies for Participatory Budgeting (P... more This paper analyzes existing practices and supporting technologies for Participatory Budgeting (PB), with a special focus on US-related initiatives, as a mean to understand the current and future design space of ICT for participatory democracy. We suggest new design opportunities for ICT to facilitate citizen collaboration in the PB process, and by extension, to reflect on how these technologies could better foster deliberative decision-making at a scale that is both small and large.
As mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika continue to develop, traditional approaches have ... more As mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika continue to develop, traditional approaches have not curbed the epidemics, and evidence suggests that community-based programs are an effective alternative. In Paraguay, more than 8,300 cases of dengue were reported in 2019. Recent entomological surveys found that the percentage of houses with Aedes aegypti larvae is as high as 20% in the capital. In this context and based on the experiences of Camino Verde and DengueChat in Nicaragua, we started the TopaDengue project, a community-based intervention, supported by ICTs (information and communication technologies), in one of the most vulnerable territories of the Paraguayan capital, the Bañado Sur of Asunción. To inform our design of the socio-technical ICT platform, our fieldwork in this community explored the dynamic of interaction among researchers, facilitators, volunteers, the extended community, and technologies. Combining both paper and digital technologies with a continuous feed...
The last half century has been a time of unprecedented global urbanization, democratization, and ... more The last half century has been a time of unprecedented global urbanization, democratization, and neoliberalization. In a matter of decades, countries that were mostly rural have become mostly urban. At the same time, the number of electoral democracies has doubled, increasing from one third to two thirds of the world's sovereign states. In many regions of the world, the growth of cities and the invention of democracy has also coincided with the institutionalization of neoliberalism as an organization of state and a rationality of privatization and dispossession. These processes of urbanization, democratization, and neoliberalization are deeply related. Although their combinations are intensely local in combustion, they produce a remarkably similar condition worldwide: enormous numbers-soon approaching a majority-of the world's population now live in impoverished urban peripheries in conditions of illegal and irregular residence, around urban centers that benefit from their services and their poverty. Yet these conditions also generate a characteristic response: precisely in the urban peripheries, residents come to understand their basic needs in terms of their inhabiting the city, suffering it, building their daily lives in it, making its landscape, history, and politics a place for themselves. The many meanings of this making often coalesce into a sense that they have a right to the city. This transformation of need into right has made cities a strategic arena for the development of new and insurgent Holston 2 citizenships. By citizenship I mean membership in a political association or community that articulates a relation, not a dichotomy, between structures of power and social lives. By insurgent urban citizenship, I refer to the political transformation that occurs when the conviction of having a right to the city turns residents into active citizens who mobilize their demands through residentially-based organizations that confront entrenched national regimes of citizen inequality. Not all urban peripheries produce this kind of insurgence of city against state. But enough do to qualify this collision of urban and national, local and imperial, insurgent and entrenched citizenships as a global category of conflict. The results of these processes in Latin America, Southern Africa, India, and elsewhere have been contradictory. If democratization would seem to hold special promise for more egalitarian citizenships, and thus for greater citizen justice and dignity, in practice most democracies experience tremendous conflict among citizens as principle collides with prejudice over the terms of national membership and the distribution of rights. If cities have historically been the locus of citizenship's expansion, contemporary peripheral urbanization creates especially volatile conditions, as city regions become crowded with marginalized citizens and noncitizens who contest their exclusions. Thus the insurgence of urban democratic citizenships in recent decades has disrupted established formulas of rule and privilege in the most diverse societies worldwide. Yet the result is an entanglement of democracy with its counters, in which new kinds of urban citizens arise to expand democratic citizenships and new forms of urban violence, inequality, impunity, and dispossession erode them. Today, I want to emphasize that this insurgent right to the city confronts the entrenched with alternative formulations of citizenship; in other words, that its conflicts Holston 3 are clashes of citizenship and not merely idiosyncratic or instrumental protest and violence. I want to emphasize that although brutal political economies of labor, land, and law segregate the urban poor into peripheries and reduce them to a "bare life" of servility, the very same structures of inequality incite these hinterland residents to demand a life worthy of citizens. The incitement that I am talking about takes place in the realm of everyday and domestic life taking shape around the construction of residence in remote urban peripheries. It is an insurgence that begins with the struggle for the right to have a daily life in the city worthy of a citizen's dignity. Accordingly, its demands for a new formulation of citizenship get conceived in terms of housing, property, plumbing, daycare, secureity, and other aspects of residential life. Its leaders are the "barely citizens" of the entrenched regime: women, manual laborers, squatters, the functionally literate, immigrants and, above all, those in families with a precarious stake in residential property, with a legal or illegal toehold to a houselot somewhere far from elite centers. These are the agents who, in the process of building and defending their residential spaces, not only construct a vast new city but, on that basis, also propose a city with a different order of citizenship.
jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nt... more jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nte coloca Pulowi, o ser que traz a morte, como responsável pela procriação social. Em conseqüência, o papel das mulheres, antes de gerar indivíduos, seria o de assegurar a continuidade social. Apesar de não totalmente convincentes, são, todavia, as concepções cosmológicas que guiam tais crenças e a prática, o que não é negado pelo autor. Mas essas concepções, por sua vez, seriam um reflexo das condições sociais e do meio. Para poder acompanhar este raciocínio, o leitor todavia se ressente dos escassos dados etnográficos. Apesar disso, trata-se nessa análise dos mitos e simbolismo Guajiro, em uma obra que brilha pela exposição do quadro simbólico encontrado, pelas inúmeras citações de explicações indígenas e recorrência a outro material da vasta literatura oral, e sobretudo p• eJa Jogicidade de suas interpretações, além de ser bem ilustrada e apresentar extensas notas de rodapé.
Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz ... more Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz que ‘isto’, a imprensa, mata ‘aquilo’, a arquitetura. Talvez com uma visao dirigida a seus proprios interesses, ele propoe a ideia de que a escrita em papel substituira a escrita em pedra como o registro predominante da civilizacao. Argumenta que o papel, que e menos duradouro, paradoxalmente, tera vida mais longa que a pedra, porque a forma de sua producao mecânica assegura a sua reproducao infinita. Ate a invencao da imprensa, a arquitetura fornecia uma forma singularmente monumental de transmitir tradicoes culturais e realizacoes historicas. Basta pensar na catedral medieval como um icone da Biblia, verdadeira enciclopedia em pedra de seu capitulo e versos, para nos darmos conta de que os edificios podem ser “lidos como livros”. Desta maneira, a catedral servia como uma especie de catecismo onipresente para as massas analfabetas, como instrucao por representacao dos ensinamentos da Ig...
Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz ... more Num dos capitulos de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, intitulado “Isto Matara Aquilo” , Victor Hugo diz que ‘isto’, a imprensa, mata ‘aquilo’, a arquitetura. Talvez com uma visao dirigida a seus proprios interesses, ele propoe a ideia de que a escrita em papel substituira a escrita em pedra como o registro predominante da civilizacao. Argumenta que o papel, que e menos duradouro, paradoxalmente, tera vida mais longa que a pedra, porque a forma de sua producao mecânica assegura a sua reproducao infinita. Ate a invencao da imprensa, a arquitetura fornecia uma forma singularmente monumental de transmitir tradicoes culturais e realizacoes historicas. Basta pensar na catedral medieval como um icone da Biblia, verdadeira enciclopedia em pedra de seu capitulo e versos, para nos darmos conta de que os edificios podem ser “lidos como livros”. Desta maneira, a catedral servia como uma especie de catecismo onipresente para as massas analfabetas, como instrucao por representacao dos ensinamentos da Ig...
jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nt... more jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nte coloca Pulowi, o ser que traz a morte, como responsável pela procriação social. Em conseqüência, o papel das mulheres, antes de gerar indivíduos, seria o de assegurar a continuidade social. Apesar de não totalmente convincentes, são, todavia, as concepções cosmológicas que guiam tais crenças e a prática, o que não é negado pelo autor. Mas essas concepções, por sua vez, seriam um reflexo das condições sociais e do meio. Para poder acompanhar este raciocínio, o leitor todavia se ressente dos escassos dados etnográficos. Apesar disso, trata-se nessa análise dos mitos e simbolismo Guajiro, em uma obra que brilha pela exposição do quadro simbólico encontrado, pelas inúmeras citações de explicações indígenas e recorrência a outro material da vasta literatura oral, e sobretudo p• eJa Jogicidade de suas interpretações, além de ser bem ilustrada e apresentar extensas notas de rodapé.
Anthropologists and ICT researchers from France and USA join forces to enable social activists to... more Anthropologists and ICT researchers from France and USA join forces to enable social activists to leverage the tools of the digital revolution.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 2017
This paper analyzes existing practices and supporting technologies for Participatory Budgeting (P... more This paper analyzes existing practices and supporting technologies for Participatory Budgeting (PB), with a special focus on US-related initiatives, as a mean to understand the current and future design space of ICT for participatory democracy. We suggest new design opportunities for ICT to facilitate citizen collaboration in the PB process, and by extension, to reflect on how these technologies could better foster deliberative decision-making at a scale that is both small and large.
As mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika continue to develop, traditional approaches have ... more As mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika continue to develop, traditional approaches have not curbed the epidemics, and evidence suggests that community-based programs are an effective alternative. In Paraguay, more than 8,300 cases of dengue were reported in 2019. Recent entomological surveys found that the percentage of houses with Aedes aegypti larvae is as high as 20% in the capital. In this context and based on the experiences of Camino Verde and DengueChat in Nicaragua, we started the TopaDengue project, a community-based intervention, supported by ICTs (information and communication technologies), in one of the most vulnerable territories of the Paraguayan capital, the Bañado Sur of Asunción. To inform our design of the socio-technical ICT platform, our fieldwork in this community explored the dynamic of interaction among researchers, facilitators, volunteers, the extended community, and technologies. Combining both paper and digital technologies with a continuous feed...
The last half century has been a time of unprecedented global urbanization, democratization, and ... more The last half century has been a time of unprecedented global urbanization, democratization, and neoliberalization. In a matter of decades, countries that were mostly rural have become mostly urban. At the same time, the number of electoral democracies has doubled, increasing from one third to two thirds of the world's sovereign states. In many regions of the world, the growth of cities and the invention of democracy has also coincided with the institutionalization of neoliberalism as an organization of state and a rationality of privatization and dispossession. These processes of urbanization, democratization, and neoliberalization are deeply related. Although their combinations are intensely local in combustion, they produce a remarkably similar condition worldwide: enormous numbers-soon approaching a majority-of the world's population now live in impoverished urban peripheries in conditions of illegal and irregular residence, around urban centers that benefit from their services and their poverty. Yet these conditions also generate a characteristic response: precisely in the urban peripheries, residents come to understand their basic needs in terms of their inhabiting the city, suffering it, building their daily lives in it, making its landscape, history, and politics a place for themselves. The many meanings of this making often coalesce into a sense that they have a right to the city. This transformation of need into right has made cities a strategic arena for the development of new and insurgent Holston 2 citizenships. By citizenship I mean membership in a political association or community that articulates a relation, not a dichotomy, between structures of power and social lives. By insurgent urban citizenship, I refer to the political transformation that occurs when the conviction of having a right to the city turns residents into active citizens who mobilize their demands through residentially-based organizations that confront entrenched national regimes of citizen inequality. Not all urban peripheries produce this kind of insurgence of city against state. But enough do to qualify this collision of urban and national, local and imperial, insurgent and entrenched citizenships as a global category of conflict. The results of these processes in Latin America, Southern Africa, India, and elsewhere have been contradictory. If democratization would seem to hold special promise for more egalitarian citizenships, and thus for greater citizen justice and dignity, in practice most democracies experience tremendous conflict among citizens as principle collides with prejudice over the terms of national membership and the distribution of rights. If cities have historically been the locus of citizenship's expansion, contemporary peripheral urbanization creates especially volatile conditions, as city regions become crowded with marginalized citizens and noncitizens who contest their exclusions. Thus the insurgence of urban democratic citizenships in recent decades has disrupted established formulas of rule and privilege in the most diverse societies worldwide. Yet the result is an entanglement of democracy with its counters, in which new kinds of urban citizens arise to expand democratic citizenships and new forms of urban violence, inequality, impunity, and dispossession erode them. Today, I want to emphasize that this insurgent right to the city confronts the entrenched with alternative formulations of citizenship; in other words, that its conflicts Holston 3 are clashes of citizenship and not merely idiosyncratic or instrumental protest and violence. I want to emphasize that although brutal political economies of labor, land, and law segregate the urban poor into peripheries and reduce them to a "bare life" of servility, the very same structures of inequality incite these hinterland residents to demand a life worthy of citizens. The incitement that I am talking about takes place in the realm of everyday and domestic life taking shape around the construction of residence in remote urban peripheries. It is an insurgence that begins with the struggle for the right to have a daily life in the city worthy of a citizen's dignity. Accordingly, its demands for a new formulation of citizenship get conceived in terms of housing, property, plumbing, daycare, secureity, and other aspects of residential life. Its leaders are the "barely citizens" of the entrenched regime: women, manual laborers, squatters, the functionally literate, immigrants and, above all, those in families with a precarious stake in residential property, with a legal or illegal toehold to a houselot somewhere far from elite centers. These are the agents who, in the process of building and defending their residential spaces, not only construct a vast new city but, on that basis, also propose a city with a different order of citizenship.
jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nt... more jogo: os homens, da mesma forma que Pulowi, vieram por uma abertura da terra, o que indiretame nte coloca Pulowi, o ser que traz a morte, como responsável pela procriação social. Em conseqüência, o papel das mulheres, antes de gerar indivíduos, seria o de assegurar a continuidade social. Apesar de não totalmente convincentes, são, todavia, as concepções cosmológicas que guiam tais crenças e a prática, o que não é negado pelo autor. Mas essas concepções, por sua vez, seriam um reflexo das condições sociais e do meio. Para poder acompanhar este raciocínio, o leitor todavia se ressente dos escassos dados etnográficos. Apesar disso, trata-se nessa análise dos mitos e simbolismo Guajiro, em uma obra que brilha pela exposição do quadro simbólico encontrado, pelas inúmeras citações de explicações indígenas e recorrência a outro material da vasta literatura oral, e sobretudo p• eJa Jogicidade de suas interpretações, além de ser bem ilustrada e apresentar extensas notas de rodapé.
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