Mutações do progresso no projeto familiar periférico: entre a autoconstrução e o empreendedorismo popular

Henrique Costa

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16486

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Henrique Costa Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1966-8388
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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16486

Keywords:

urban peripheries, autoconstruction, entrepreneurship, social classes, ethnography

Abstract

The article analyses the emergence of popular entrepreneurship in the peripheries of São Paulo as a historical development of autoconstruction and the family project of social mobility in the 1970s and 1980s. Based on ethnographic research conducted between 2017 and 2022 in the southern zone of São Paulo, it examines the trajectories of five young entrepreneurs in the food industry in Paraisópolis, Parelheiros, and Campo Limpo. The study shows how the ideal of home ownership has been converted into symbolic and material capital for new forms of entrepreneurship, articulating values of autonomy, merit, and progress. It concludes that popular entrepreneurship redefines the ethics of work and autoconstruction but also reproduces inequalities and class segmentation within the peripheries.

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Author Biography

Henrique Costa, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento

Pesquisador de pós-doutorado no International Postdoctoral Program do Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (IPP/Cebrap), doutor em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), mestre em Ciência Política pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), com pós-doutorado no Departamento de Sociologia da USP. Foi pesquisador visitante no Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) da University of Cambridge e no Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) em Berlim. Principal publicação: In the remains of progress: utopia and suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship (Brill, 2024).