ABSTRACT
A significant volume of research on urban studies have highlighted how recent transformations in social organisation of labour, transport, media, urbanism, and market have altered the ways of thinking and conceptualizing “classic” antinomies as centre/periphery, global/local, legal/illegal, formal/informal, among others. In order to avoid both “sedentary” formulations (centred on fixed binary paradigms) and “nomadists” (aimed at the idealization of flows and indifferent to geographical/territorial dimensions as well as their role in anchoring the subjects' concrete social experiences), the research takes mobility as an analytical and methodological operator responsible for providing the understanding of dynamics that are beyond the reach of traditional theoretical paradigms. Based on the new mobility paradigm, the study aims at demonstrating how audiovisual activism collectives in São Paulo have applied digital media tools in a tactical way in order to produce symbolic references capable of critically challenge hegemonic imaginary about marginalized territories and populations and, simultaneously, formulate original theories as epistemic alternatives for understanding the power relationships that modulate the governance of spaces and populations in São Paulo. In conclusion, the goal is to demonstrate how these actors, through their engagement, allow us to understand inequality in a procedural and systemic way.
