PUBLIC POLICIES AND THEIR AFTERLIVES: WORTHINESS AND HOUSING CITIZENSHIP IN BRAZIL

Economic and social policies paved the way for inequality alleviation and wellbeing improvements in the lives of millions during the 2000s in Brazil. Drawing from ethnography conducted among recipients of the housing program Minha Casa, Minha Vida [“My House, My Life”], this article examines the ways public policies intersect with upward mobility. Charting the public and private trajectories of dona Hilda [Mrs. Hilda] – a 97-year-old poor black woman living in the periphery of Porto Alegre – I argue that mobility arising from within the widened scope of state interventions produced multiscale alignments between local politicians, marketers, planners, community leaders, and desiring citizens. To navigate this political, economic, and communitarian terrains, dona Hilda engaged in a laborious work for housing citizenship and worthiness that converted her into the program’s exemplarycharacter. Unraveling the moral boundaries at the juncture of discourse, history and subjectivity, the cartography of subjective fragments is best suited to explore the lingering afterlives of public policies in present-day Brazil.2000年代，巴西的经济与社会政策为千百万民众的生活带来了不平等缓解与福祉提升。本文基于对住房计划“我的家园，我的人生（Minha Casa, Minha Vida）”受助群体开展的民族志研究，探讨了公共政策与社会向上流动的交织路径。通过追踪居住在阿雷格里港外围的97岁贫困黑人女性唐娜·希尔达（Mrs. Hilda）的公共与私人生活历程，本文提出：国家干预范围拓展所催生的社会流动，促成了地方政客、营销人员、规划者、社区领袖与抱有期望的公民之间的多尺度协同。为了在这片政治、经济与社群交织的场域中立足，唐娜·希尔达为争取住房公民权与身份认可付出了艰辛努力，最终成为该计划的典型代表。通过解构话语、历史与主体性交汇点处的道德边界，主观碎片制图法最适于探究公共政策在当今巴西的持久遗留效应。