Resilience and Porosity of City Borders: A psychosocial investigation in three Brazilian cities

进出城市的权利对个人和社区的生活有何影响？邻里之间的沟通和流通障碍与自尊降低、社会资本和社会网络减少有关。该项目将通过研究1)城市内部边界的孔隙度、自尊和韧性之间的关系以及2)自下而上的社会发展倡议在建立弹性和增强城市边界的灵活性方面的作用来测试这种联系。这将在巴西三个大城市的种族隔离社区(贫民窟)进行研究：圣保罗、里约热内卢和阿雷格里港。多个场地之间的比较框架有助于进一步了解不同的建筑环境和背景如何与个人和社区的心理和韧性相交。同时，我们将确定自下而上的社会发展举措，并研究它们在发展城市边缘的复原力和行动能力方面的作用，我们假设，这是城市转型质量的一个重要因素。将开展的工作包括通过在伦敦和阿雷格里港举办的两个研讨会，在巴西和英国之间建立研究伙伴关系，这些研讨会将侧重于准备和设计研究的所有要素。我们将回顾社会心理学和城市研究的相关文献，并确定研究设计。讲习班将借鉴该网络成员以前的研究成果，并将在环境、自尊和复原力之间的联系方面具有不同专长的同事聚集在一起。它将包括来自两国的年轻研究人员，包括博士生。该网络将通过发展社会和文化心理学与城市研究之间的概念和经验联系，作出重要和新颖的贡献。

How does the right to come and go in the city impact on the lives of individuals and communities? Barriers to communication and circulation between neighbourhoods have been linked to diminished self-esteem and decreased social capital and social networks. This project will test this link by studying 1) the relationship between the porosity of internal city borders, self-esteem and resilience and 2) the role of bottom-up social development initiatives in building resilience and enhancing the flexibility of city borders. This will be studied in segregated neighbourhoods (favelas) of three large Brazilian cities: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. A comparative framework between multiple sites furthers understanding of how different built environments and contexts intersect with the psychology and resilience of individuals and communities. At the same time we will identify initiatives of bottom-up social development and study their role in developing resilience and capacity to act on urban frontiers, which, we hypothesise, is an important factor in the quality of urban transformation. The work to be carried out involves building a research partnership between Brazil and the UK through 2 workshops in London and Porto Alegre, which will focus on all elements of preparing and designing the research. We will review the literature connecting social psychology and urban studies and establish the research design. The workshops will draw on previous research of members of the network and bring together colleagues with different expertise on the connections between environments, self-esteem and resilience. It will involve young researchers from both countries, including PhD students. This network will make an important and novel contribution by developing conceptual and empirical links between social and cultural psychology and urban studies.