ABSTRACT
The Leste I Landless Workers’ Movement is an urban social movement which struggles for housing. Since the 1980´s, the movement provides support for its activists families through an autonomous self-regulated collective organization of jointed effort called “mutirão” in Brazilian Portuguese. That said, the “time of mutirão” is a concept produced by the activists in order to frame duration of a mutirão. This “time of mutirão” includes the moment they get the needed score, passing by the decision of their integration and inclusion by a specific demand, then the long process of the construction work to the point of moving to the new house. This article discusses the inter relations over the terms of family and house from narratives of the mutirantes of Leste I about their domestic and family (re)arrangements during and after the mutirão, with the purpose to point out some ethnographic reflections over the relations between the State and the urban social movements for housing in the housing service for these families.
KEYWORDS
House; family; gender; urban social movements for housing; suffering