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Architectures of Hope brings to life the demographic transformations that took place during the PT years, using evocative ethnography and anthropological analysis to uncover the meanings and subjectivities associated with participation in the signature housing initiative, Minha Casa, Minha Vida. Kopper's account sheds important new light on what poverty-reduction initiatives look like from the ground up, simultaneously hopeful and contradictory. --Benjamin Junge, State University of New York at New Paltz--Benjamin Junge Architectures of Hope is a powerful statement on how inclusive social policies can transform a community by creating hope and agency that are backed up by public investments. Moises Kopper presents a deeply insightful ethnography which documents the changes in an urban community mobilized by 'material hope' and the development of a new sense of belonging. --Jens Beckert, Director, Max Planck Institute of Societies--Jens Beckert Kopper gives us a remarkable ethnography that connects the personal lives of the urban poor with the political processes that transformed contemporary Brazil. Architectures of Hope shows the skill of an ethnographer able to innovate conceptually to illuminate in a vivid way how politics and the market transformed the daily lives of the most marginalized in one of the most unequal countries in the world. --Ariel Wilkis, Escuela IDAES-Universidad de San Martin, and author of The Moral Power of Money--Ariel Wilkis With nuanced ethnographic description and incisive analysis, Kopper takes us inside a public housing project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, showing the complicated ways the personal and the structural are intertwined. The result is an exciting new perspective on the social and affective pull of hope, the political-economy of precarity, and the ways these intersect with state-sponsored infrastructure development. --Edward F. Fischer, author of The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing--Edward F. Fischer

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Moisés Kopper is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains.

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