O Largo do Intendente, em Lisboa, nos últimos anos tem passado por um intenso processo de gentrificação  e turistificação. A partir de uma concepção alargada de resistência que inclui tanto processos contestatório como as práticas e usos que se mantêm no território, o objetivo da investigaçã é analisar se o Largo do Intendente tem resistido e de que forma a esses processos. Para isso busca-se analisar as representações, significados e ações dos atores sociais possuem em relação as transformações ocorridas nos últimos anos, identificando que práticas adotam para fazer frente os desafios impostos pela gentrificação e turistificação. Assim como busca-se analisar as diferentes dinâmicas e usos do território e como elas são influencias pelos processos em curso.  Orientação: Guya Accornero    

In the early 21st century, housing has returned to the centre of struggles and political debate in the Western world. In Southern Europe, housing crises, and intensifying dynamics of gentrification and touristification, have contributed to the emergence of new housing social movements around issues such as displacement, and social and economic exclusion. Strongly affected by these trends, Lisbon is in the midst of a perfect storm for housing, generated by the intersection of the long wave of economic crisis and austerity with recent touristification, gentrification and massive real estate investment. At the same time, demographic changes (e.g. ageing, migrations and mobility) are reshaping local urban identities, which are reflected in new forms of housing activism. Social movement, urban policy and demographic studies seem to have dealt with housing in a compartmentalised way. By focusing on the city of Lisbon, a casen paradigmatic of contradictory trends but still under-theorised, HOPES aims to intertwine these analytical fields. Moving from the micro and meso dimensions of housing activism, HOPES will enlarge its scope to macro aspects such as national housing policies and global trends. HOPES' main questions are: how, and to what extent, do new housing movements mirror wider housing policies and dynamics? Which are the reciprocal influences between movements, political actors and globalising trends? What are the possible scenarios and futures in terms of housing and urban trends? HOPES adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and a mixed methodology. First, HOPES will analyse and cross information on new housing activism (ethnography, protest events and frames analysis), policy (critical policy analysis) and dynamics (mapping and demographic analysis) in housing in Lisbon. This study will be enriched by an action research partnership with the housing association Habita, and by cooperation with the FCT funded project exPERts on rehousing policies in Lisbon metro. ...