Heidegger ai margini. Antropologia e trasgressione

The Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER) offers the opportunity to the municipalities situated in Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas of succeeding in eliminating clandestine neighborhoods and providing the reallocation of the residents in social houses. The decree contextualizes the housing problem as «a still open plague in our social fabric». The current process implementation, more than twenty year far from the original formulation, has produced complex adaptation, resistance and fighting dynamics. Through the analyses of an ethnographic case study, the author problematizes the implementation of this governative programme, focusing on the consequent systematic demolition of informal settlements in the Lisbon periphery under the aegis of the urban renewal doctrine. Through a dwelling perspective that incorporates the building processes as subordinate to the principal human faculty of producing and living space and spatiality, the author proposes to consider the practices of informal and alegal self-building not as a clandestine or illegal social practice, but as an anthropopoietic locus of local governance and transgressive political praxis. The author supposes that in a contest of global crisis of national economy and welfare state ideology, these productive practicescould represent plausible and stimulant hypotheses for the emergence of an active and diffuse model of citizenship.