Papers by Margaux De Barros
Espace populations sociétés, 2021
The interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2020
This empirically focused article takes a closer look at the specifically challenging role of inte... more This empirically focused article takes a closer look at the specifically challenging role of internal dynamics and micro-politics in a squatter movement that have been conspicuously absent from the eye of scholars even in social movement literature. We ask 'what happens to a movement itself when a tactic of collective action becomes its mode of existence and its very base?' Through an in-depth anthropological analysis of the occupation-based "Reclaim The City" social movement in Cape Town we explore what effects the evolving everyday life and its accompanying challenges have on social movement development, movement participation and its political impact. We argue that besides potentially generating thick ties of solidarity and cohesion, constant, intense and inescapable proximity may also bear the risk of individual withdrawal that triggers, requires, and explains fundamental shifts in movement activity and its organization. As a consequence, movement organizers have to divert attention increasingly inwards with the effect of a decrease in external movement activity and eventually its political impact.
Lava, 2017
Des Jeux olympiques de 2016 à Rio de Janeiro, il ne reste que des structures sportives qui tomben... more Des Jeux olympiques de 2016 à Rio de Janeiro, il ne reste que des structures sportives qui tombent en ruine et dans l'oubli. La stratégie de la municipalité, qui consistait à miser sur l'organisation de méga-événements afin de redorer l'image la ville, est écornée par les affaires de corruption et la prise de conscience des effets sociaux et économiques désastreux des JO. La logique urbaine de l'accumulation du capital envers et contre tout a transformé la morphologie de la ville au profit des élites et précarisé davantage les travailleurs pauvres. Retour sur le processus de destruction de la favela Vila Autódromo, sur la lutte menée par une partie de ses habitants et sur les stratégies du pouvoir destinées à les faire plier.
Carnets de géographes , 2019
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Papers by Margaux De Barros