ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the study of recuperative dwelling practices in an informal settlement located in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Drawing on ethnographic material, it discusses how operations of repair and re-appropriation of dwellings evolve as world-making practices that create a different degree of production of space and belonging to Santa Filomena. The chapter grounds on the study of a peculiar form of dwelling which emerged in an informal settlement located in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Responding to Janet Carsten’s call, in the chapter, the author maintains that the poetics and poietics of dwelling represent a privileged standpoint for uncovering both ‘the politics and practice of small incursions in material spaces, the possibilities open up, and the forms of sociality they might entail’. In the chapter, the author focuses on a peculiar recovered dwelling that emerged from interactions among heterogeneous actors, representations and politics.
