ABSTRACT
This chapter examines June's 2013 Brazilian urban demonstrations that started in Belo Horizonte's Metropolitan Area, considering them to be a new type of political action, led by citizens who live on the capital cities' poor peripheries, thus allowing the emergence of new recognisable social actors. In 2012/2013, Brazil was discussing the emergence of a so-called 'new middle class', due to the good economic momentum the country had been experiencing. It is important to note that the road demonstrations never grew in number of people taking part; in fact, the key point was to understand the architecture of metropolitan flows, as well as what is at stake when popular action disrupts the efficiency of people's daily routines and lives in upper class neighbourhoods. Communicative interaction took place as an effect of mutual articulation by the people who organised the protests, which, in Minas Gerais, should only be considered a popular victory and unfortunately not a spectacular one.
