Transgressive Participation. Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in Lisbon Metropolitan Area

This doctoral thesis investigates these phenomena by analysing council housing occupations and evictions from council housing in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Based on a 15-month study, realised in close engagement with the Habita social movement association, it combines various approaches, involving multi-sited, engaged ethnography, policy analysis, and theoretical and historical inquiry.The primary objective of the thesis is to understand the reasons for and consequences of occupations, analysing them as an experience pertaining to the everyday sphere of housing exclusions.