Drafts by Filipe MELLO ROSE
This master thesis addresses the relationship between social mobilization and spatial configurati... more This master thesis addresses the relationship between social mobilization and spatial configurations in the context of new communication technologies. Using a literature that distinguishes the spatial analysis in the four dimensions (Territory, Place, Scale and Networks) different spaces of mobilization are analysed. The four vectors of analysis allow to approach the relationship between a movements’ main spatiality and its preferred types of actions from different angles. In this endeavour, the case around the Novo Recife project and the opposing groups Direitos Urbanos and the Movimento Ocupe Estelita, in Recife, Brazil, is used. In this case, social movements, initially organized over the internet, occupied a central plot in the city to combat the construction of a high rise project. The case offers the possibility to investigate how the spatiality of mobilization, the internet and the occupied plot had different effects on the movements’ composition and its strategies.
Final paper for the class "Housing and Land in the Large Metropolis" on the collusive urban growt... more Final paper for the class "Housing and Land in the Large Metropolis" on the collusive urban growth machine in Recife. Preparatory work for Master thesis.
This qualitative case study seeks to further understand the cultural implantation of Latin Americ... more This qualitative case study seeks to further understand the cultural implantation of Latin Americans in Paris, via the Brazilian and Colombian migrants. Interviewing qualified migrants who have lived in Paris for a large amount of time, we used the notion of cultural and social capital as set out by Bourdieu. We found that our sample mobilised both their cultural and social capital for their insertion in French society and that networks were most present in the first time period after the arrival. Over time, relationships shift, but the networks persist. However, although impregnated with, what respondents saw as Latin American specificities, the capital they mobilised reflected their status from their country of origin. While the activity in institutionalized cultural activities are often handled by and aimed at the French majority, Latin Americans most seek to validate their cultural capital on a personal and intimate basis, stimulating biculturalism that acts platform for their children's cosmopolitan identities.
Papers by Filipe MELLO ROSE
The Covid19-pandemic has accelerated processes in which digital platforms, privileged by their cr... more The Covid19-pandemic has accelerated processes in which digital platforms, privileged by their critical size, become central instances of urban life. While most scholars associate platform urbanism with transnational platform corporations, such as Amazon or Facebook, local non-corporate platforms unexpectedly persist despite lacking critical size. This article analyzes processes through which non-corporate platforms are created, maintained, disseminated, and locally implemented; given this type of platform's absence of critical size. We explain the persistence of local non-corporate platforms by drawing on the concept of embeddedness. Embeddedness accounts for non-market-based, i.e. socially and culturally influenced behavior, that shapes economic interactions. We distinguish between network embeddedness, in which organizations maintain permanent and exclusive relationships with one another, and local embeddedness, which combines Hess' (2004) notions of societal embeddedness and territorial embeddedness. This article is empirically grounded on an analysis of two most different ways of creating and maintaining, disseminating, and locally implementing non-corporate platforms: Platform cooperativism and free/libre open-source software-based platforms (FLOSS-based platforms). Two empirical case studies of collaboratively governed Western-European non-corporate platforms, Gebiedonline and Decidim, respectively inform the analysis of platform cooperativism and FLOSS-based platforms. Gebiedonline is a platform cooperative through which neighborhood and theme-specific platforms are created. Decidim is a FLOSS-based platform that is mainly used for civic and political participation processes. We find that governments and civil society stakeholders create non-corporate platform technology by disentangling processes related to the creation, maintenance, and dissemination of platform technology from platform implementation processes. Following platform creation, platform maintenance is embedded in a network. Non-corporate platforms pool cost-intensive technology maintenance, while platform implementation necessarily takes place in a locally embedded manner.
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Drafts by Filipe MELLO ROSE
Papers by Filipe MELLO ROSE