Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.61.1.2
(Semi)-hidden and Manifest Transcripts in Forms of Living and Residing: The ‘Social Housing’ Neighbourhood in Andorinhas, Braga-Portugal
Manuel Carlos Silva
orcid.org/0000-0001-8462-9516
; Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Sheila Khan
; Center for Studies in Communication and Society, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Rui Vieira Cruz
; Center for Studies in Communication and Society, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Abstract
This paper discusses the results of a research developed at Andorinhas neighbourhood,
created in the early 1980’s in Braga. It is based on quantitative and qualitative data
resulting from the application of a survey, semi-structured interviews and life narratives. This
plural methodology allowed for the analyses of the objective living conditions, habits and ways
of life, relationships and representations not only between various groups of the community,
as well as the relations between the neighbourhood inhabitants and the surrounding society,
including the institutions and public powers (police, court, social security, services, media and
especially municipal housing company BragaHabit). The results suggest the presence not only
of manifest but also (semi)hidden transcripts, both at family and community levels, but rarely
in open collective actions for neighbourhood improvements.
Keywords
social housing; Andorinhas neighbourhood; Braga-Portugal; mixed methods; BragaHabit
Hrčak ID:
303929
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Publication date:
29.5.2023.
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