Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade
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2024-11
Authors
Pimentel Walker, Ana Paula
Arquero de Alarcón, María
Friendly, Abigail
Barbosa, Benedito Roberto
Ribeiro de Souza, Marilene
Nobre, Sheila Cristiane Santos
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Abstract
This article theorises a multi-year participatory action research engagement focusing on young land occupations and consolidated favelas in São Paulo’s south periphery, providing an arsenal of tools for activist-scholars. Building on Paulo Freire's legacy, we call on academia to embrace activist co-production, learn from and support informal dwellers’ everyday urbanisms, and join social movements’ struggles for social transformation. We advance three modalities of action: awareness raising through emancipatory education and capacity building; articulatção through knowledge exchange between young and consolidated informal communities; and advocacy through policy reform for the right to occupy, hold ground, and upgrade.
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activist-scholar co-production, just city, participatory action research, social movements, testimony, Taverne, Geography, Planning and Development
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Pimentel Walker, A P, Arquero de Alarcón, M, Friendly, A, Barbosa, B R, Ribeiro de Souza, M & Nobre, S C S 2024, 'Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade', Planning Theory, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 324-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/14730952231213952