The postdoctoral researcher at CEM/RIDC, Matthew Richmond, will presents the seminar “Socio-spatial Complexity and Emerging Subjectivities in Urban Periphery.” The event is part of the series of CEM seminars held by postdoctoral researchers at USP.

Abstract: During the last two decades, the urban peripheries of Brazil have become increasingly socially heterogeneous and spatially complex. These trends are due to structural social and economic transformations, the implementation of various public policies from different levels of government, and the growing influence of a range of non-state actors, such as NGOs, churches, social and cultural movements, and armed groups. Introducing the results of an ethnographic survey conducted in a peripheral district of the East Zone of São Paulo, this seminar intends to explore the question of how of subjectivity of peripheral residents unfolds in the context of such socio-spatial complexity.