Abstract
While the concept of landscape has been used by public institutions as an instrument of territorial management, insurgent groups mobilize certain types of landscapes to affect the political agenda and claim their rights. The purpose of this text is to discuss how certain landscapes are transformed into an instrument of contemporary political struggle by citizens underrepresented in traditional political spaces. These groups transform large or small-scale landscapes into political landscapes composed of an intentional set of objects and representations which brings visibility to their demands. From the analysis of the interventions in the statue of Borba Gato and in the region of Pequena África, in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro respectively, we argue that political landscapes help explain the interests and desires of groups, since it transforms the way of seeing and acting on space.
Keywords:
São Paulo; Rio de Janeiro; Borba Gato’s statue; Little Africa; Street Art
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Source: organized by the authors. Image A, available at 
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Source: organized by the authors. Images A, B, and C were collected in fieldwork carried out by the authors in 2021.
Source: organized by the authors. Images A and B were collected in fieldwork carried out by the authors in 2021.