Popular housing in Porto Alegre at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century: an approach based on eviction lawsuits

• Autor(a) principal: Weimer, Rodrigo de Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/106504
• topic: despejos; Encilhamento; inflação; moradia popular; História urbana

Since the decade of 1980, there has been a strong tradition of historical research on poverty and urban territoriality in the city of Porto Alegre (PESAVENTO, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2006; MONTEIRO, 1995; KERSTING, 1998; GERMANO, 1999; MATTOS, 2000; MAUCH, 2004; VIEIRA, 2017; XAVIER; BOHRER, 2018; ROSA, 2019). Emphasizing criteria of either social class or race, these important studies converge in order to scrutinize the symbolic resources used to stigmatize the subalterns, justifying their expulsion to progressively distant regions. Although they are not ignored by the aforementioned authors, there are some economical dynamics that should be investigated further – particularly, the effects of inflationary and cambial devaluation processes along the final years of the Empire and the early years of the Republic, culminating in the period known as “Encilhamento”. Eviction lawsuits prove to be privileged sources for addressing these issues. Not wishing to appeal to old dichotomies that oppose culture and economy, there are missing aspects in the explanations so far discussed by the bibliography.