Abstract
This essay departs from a dialogue with Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the closet and Ananya Roy’s criticism of the theorizations aimed at deciphering the megacities of the Global South, proposing an “epistemology of the laje (favela rooftop)”. Having the “Rio de Janeiro favela” as its main reference, the hypothesis is that the laje , both in empirical and conceptual terms, destabilizes long-stand dualities: favela versus formal city, private space versus public space, legal versus illegal, universal versus vernacular.
Favela; Urbanism; Architect project; Decolonial theory; Mobilities paradigm
