On Soft Architectures

This text explores relationships between political action and enunciation of rights over the use of spaces. The empirical context is directed towards practices of collective action in Malacca’s Portuguese Settlement (West Malaysia). Based on ethnographic research, we argue for the idea of soft archi...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eces,
Autor Principal: Pires, Ema
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: e-cadernos CES 2015
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Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This text explores relationships between political action and enunciation of rights over the use of spaces. The empirical context is directed towards practices of collective action in Malacca’s Portuguese Settlement (West Malaysia). Based on ethnographic research, we argue for the idea of soft architectures of collective action as socially weaved ways of popular contestation that are imbricated in daily modes of practicing space(s).