Bruno Xavier Martins

Visiting Scholar

Bruno Xavier Martins is an economist from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) and a geographer from the University of São Paulo (USP). He focuses on Urban Geography and Economic Geography, specially on the studies around the real estate market, the current Brazilian housing policy (“Programa Minha Casa Minh Vida” – My House, My Life Program), the everyday life, the fictitious capital and the social indebtedness. His current work explores the relationship between the financial capital and the indebted population in Brazil that accessed the public housing.

Participating Years

2015–2016

Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence

Self-determination had a heady run in the 20th century, instanced by both revolutionary assertion and homogenizing mimicry. But what is autonomy now? What is dependence? How are these conditions of existence necessarily related – as contradictory rather than contrasting ideologies, representations, relations, outcomes? What forms reveal the dialectic at work? What forms disguise or displace the dynamic?