Fronteiras Urbanas

Life Narratives contributing to the freedom of knowledge: Urban Boundaries Project

Authors: Nuno Vieira – Lusófona University nmcv@fct.unl.pt Mônica Mesquita – Lisbon University mbmesquita@ie.ul.pt Keywords: Critical Ethnography, Communitarian Education, Life Narratives and Local Knowledge. Abstract: A basic principle of consumer societies is the fact that anyone only feels the need of something what is known. The personal and social needs are also governed by…

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Urban Boundaries project: The dialogue as the core of the question “for all”

Authors: FRANCO, Sílvia (1) MESQUITA, Mônica (2) (1) Institute of Education – Lisbon University, Portugal silviafranco6@gmail.com (2) Institute of Education – Lisbon University, Portugal mbmesquita@ie.ul.pt Abstract: The present paper appears as a need to share the birth process of Urban Boundaries Project. A research born from the love of a group of workers…

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Por dois anos e meio, doze etnógrafos críticos interdisciplinares desenvolveram um projeto de investigação com duas comunidades situadas na Costa de Caparica (Portugal) chamado Fronteiras Urbanas (FU) - apoiado pela Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia e com base no Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa. O FU surgiu como um álibi para um grupo de pessoas ficarem juntas de uma forma "legal". Este grupo era constituído por académicos, pescadores e moradores de um assentamento semi-ilegal reunidos na luta contra a política local, que tem mantido uma política de medo e prazer sádico. O acesso a água tem sido a principal ferramenta neste jogo político. As três tarefas científicas propostas pelo FU ( Alfabetização Crítica, Cartografia Múltipla, Histórias de Vida) foram desenvolvidas por membros das três comunidades e não são nada mais do que "portas científicas" para reclamar: ÁGUA no assentamento semi-ilegal constituído nos últimos 40 anos; espaço para a VOZ da comunidade piscatória sobre as decisões políticas locais; e os nossos direitos para exercer uma EDUCAÇÃO EMANCIPATÓRA. Este projeto trouxe escolhas perturbadoras feitas nos processos educativos comunitários vividos in loco, o qual convidou todos os seus actores sociais a reconhecerem que "a desumanização, embora um fato histórico concreto, não é um destino dado".

For two years and a half, twelve interdisciplinary critical ethnographers developed a research project with two communities situated in Costa de Caparica (Portugal) called Urban Boundaries (UB) – supported by a national institution (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and based at the Institute of Education, Lisbon University. The UB emerged as an alibi to a group of people to be together in a “legal” way. This group was constituted by academics, fisherman, and residents of a semi-illegal settlement brought together in the struggle against local politics, which has maintained a policy of fear and sadistic enjoyment. The access to the water has been the main tool in this political game. The three scientific tasks proposed by the UBP (Critical Alphabetization, Multiple Cartography, Histories of Life) were developed by members of the three communities and are nothing more than “scientific doors” to claim: WATER in the semi- illegal settlement constituted on the last 40 years; space for the VOICE of fishing community concerning the local political decisions; and our rights to exercise an EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION. This project brought disturbing choices made within the communitarian educational processes lived in loco, which invited all its social actors to recognize that “the dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny “.

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Life Narratives contributing to the freedom of knowledge: Urban Boundaries Project

Urban Boundaries project: The dialogue as the core of the question “for all”