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Paper short abstract

This paper addresses practices and representations involved in the social and political movements in Lisbon re-locating the relation between urban centre and periphery. From political demands to cultural networks, new subjectivities defy geographical and social urban inequality.

Paper long abstract

This paper addresses practices and representations involved in the social and political movements in Lisbon that have been re-locating the relation between urban centre and periphery. From political demands to change nationality law to the emergence and projection of cultural production (music, cinema, dance, body styles and language), people historically confined to post-colonial peripheric neighbourhoods in the Portuguese capital have been creating forms of mobility throughout the city that change its landscape and defy the own realm of cosmopolitan images constructed in a post-imperial context. By mapping and discussing some of these expressions and practices, present in my ethnographic work, I intend to put into debate the plasticity of the lines between centre and periphery in the city domains.