Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the political significance of self-building in a precarious housing neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in the “irregular subdivision” of Jardim Maravilha, it challenges the dominant interpretation within citizenship and infrastructure studies, which associ-ates self-building with a form of “infrastructural citizenship” or resistance against the hegemonic urban order. Indeed, self-builders do not always perceive themselves as “rights-claiming citizens” but rather as “masters” who defend their autonomy and seek to control their socio-material environment. The article thus distinguishes be-tween, on the one hand, the “progressive ontology” in academic research, which emphasizes struggles for equali-ty, civic participation, and recognition, and, on the other hand, the “domestic ontology” or oikonomia of resi-dents, who interpret the world primarily through their domestic experience. The article examines how this ontol-ogy structures relationships with law, infrastructure, and local institutions, revealing an opportunistic engage-ment with legality, as well as specific forms of collective mobilization based on household interdependence. These relationships are also rooted in a specific social and environmental history, shaped by the experience of the frontier and the threat of cativeiro—the loss of domestic autonomy. Given the limitations of participatory citizenship policies, the article highlights the need to analyze urban margins through the lens of domestic auton-omy, rather than presupposing a form of civic engagement aligned with progressive frameworks.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".