“Don't look a gift horse in the mouth”: when a public housing policy violates the way of living of the peasant

Abstract: This article aims to discuss the symbolic violence present in the implementation process of the Minho Coso, Meu Moronhão housing program, analyzing its development, verifying its guidelines and their application, and the attitudes of the beneficiaries after the materialization of the reported violence found in the program house. Considering the rural way of living as intrinsic to their general living conditions, the text analyzes the conception of the housing program created from the Progromo Nocionol de Hobitoção Rurol (PNHR), demonstrably ineffective in the Northeastern region of the country and far apart from the reality of the beneficiaries. Based on field research conducted from 2015 to 2019, in Pequizeiro, a village of the Belágua municipality, Maranhão, this article discusses the process of appropriation of the new home by the contemplated families, analyzing modifications and identifying them, as well as analyzing the different uses of the environments, which change according to the needs of each family nucleus. Based on the study of post-occupation physical interventions, it concludes that the program is incompatible with the local reality, and the disregard and violence practiced on the peasant way of life have their answers in the interventions in the house and its surroundings that seek to restore the necessary conditions for its social reproduction.

摘要：本研究旨在探讨米尼奥科索·莫龙昂住房计划（Minho Coso, Meu Moronhão）实施过程中存在的符号暴力，通过分析该计划的推进历程、核实其指导方针与落地执行情况，以及项目住房建成后已报道暴力事件具象化时受益者的态度展开研究。考虑到乡村生活方式是当地居民整体生活状况的固有属性，本文分析了由普罗戈莫诺西奥诺尔乡村住房计划（Progromo Nocionol de Hobitoção Rurol，简称PNHR）衍生出的住房项目构想——该计划在巴西东北部地区显然收效甚微，且与受益者的实际生活现状相去甚远。本文基于2015年至2019年在巴西马拉尼昂州（Maranhão）贝拉瓜市（Belágua）下辖村庄佩克齐罗（Pequizeiro）开展的实地调研，探讨了获批家庭对新住房的适配改造过程，分析并梳理了其改造细节，同时研究了不同家庭根据自身核心需求对住房空间的差异化使用方式。通过对入住后物理改造行为的研究，本文得出结论：该住房计划与当地现实情况严重脱节，针对农民生活方式的漠视与暴力，可通过对住房及其周边环境的改造得到回应——此类改造旨在恢复农民社会再生产所需的必要条件。