Since its beginning in 2017, the Reconexão Periferias Project has been built collectively, with the collaboration of activists, militants, collectives, movements, artists, and researchers from Brazilian peripheries. Over these years, one of our initiatives to expand dialogue with the more than 800 collectives, social movements, and peripheral organizations registered in our mapping is what we call territorialization.
The Project has carried out territorialization activities since 2019, the year in which we held five regional meetings, from North to South, with part of our network of mapped organizations, activists, and grassroots militants. In 2020, territorialization took place through a Public Call that supported 28 organizations from our mapping, seeking to strengthen their actions within their territories.
Organizations from all regions of the country were selected, working on a wide range of themes, from Indigenous rap to soap production, leadership training, audiovisual production, thematic live streams, photography workshops, and the production of magazines, booklets, and books, as well as initiatives aimed at raising awareness and supporting the population amid the pandemic scenario.
The diversity and reach of the activities carried out by the selected organizations reaffirm the strength of collective organization present in the peripheries, pointing, on the one hand, to a deep capacity to transform local realities and, on the other, to an ability to adapt to the sudden impositions that a social tragedy can bring—as exemplified by the organizations that changed their activities in response to the pandemic.
Get to know the projects selected through the territorialization public call
Access the territorialization process report
