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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Main Author: Ema Pires
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Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2015-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/eces/1897
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spelling doaj-art-15c85956e2d34a758b07f6bcdf20ab2c2024-12-09T14:12:43ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbrae-cadernos ces1647-07372015-06-012310.4000/eces.1897On Soft ArchitecturesEma PiresThis 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).https://journals.openedition.org/eces/1897powerspacetourismMalaccaMalaysia
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title On Soft Architectures
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