The postdoctoral fellow researcher at the Center of Metropolitan Studies (CEM/RIDC) Moisés Kopper (Doctorate in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) will present the seminar “Porous Infrastructures, Urban Faces: Consumption, Citizenship and Class Mobility in the My Home My Life Program,” which is part of the series of post-doc seminars at the Center, located at the University of São Paulo and CEBRAP.

Abstract: What are the long-term effects of housing policies in contemporary Brazil? What infrastructures of participation are generated as their beneficiaries take ownership of the materialities of the home, and how do these moral economies engender new political and economic subjectivities? These are some of the questions that guide the postdoctoral research of the anthropologist Moisés Kopper, conducted among beneficiaries of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program in the cities of Porto Alegre and São Paulo.