Urban Ethnographies

This research gathers visual records and analyses of manifestations of resistance and rebellion in urban landscapes in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe. Photographs of walls, graffiti, street inscriptions, contested monuments, occupations, festivals, processions, spatial interventions, and performative acts compose an archive devoted to everyday forms of dissent inscribed in the city.

The work brings together history, urban anthropology, visual studies, and ethnography, observing how politics appears in gestures, bodies, surfaces, and uses of public space. Rather than merely illustrating the city, the images seek to register modes of claim-making, memory, and contestation that often escape official narratives. The research is part of the activities of the CNPq Research Group History, Memory, and Latin American Narratives and dialogues with urban experiences in different national contexts.