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Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-237-2026
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Grounded relationalities, the socio-ecological (de/re)territorialization of São Paulo's urban marginalities

Lucas Lerchs

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This study retraces the production, loss, and defence of a self-built urban settlement in the ecological peripheries of São Paulo. This study explores how such self-built marginalized communities build and defend their territory in the face of environmental laws and urban expansion. It shows how everyday relations with land and the ecologies – what the work calls grounded relationalities – are both the basis of home and the target of oppression and potential resistance for the evicted families. 

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