This paper examines the changing nature of spatial discourses and the dynamics of grassroots organizing in the migrant squatter settlement of Cova da Moura, in the periphery of Lisbon. It focuses on official discourses on this neighbourhood and the ways in which these have shaped local collective organizing. The first part of the paper maps out the origins and development of the settlement, focusing on the emergence of migrant neighbourhood-based organizations. The second part explores how dominant official discourses and policies have produced, in the last three decades, an ideology of illegality and of ghettoization. The discourses of space are understood in relation to the concrete social and historical conditions in which they emerge. In the third part, special emphasis is given to the processes of negotiation, and resistance produced by local collective mobilization. It is argued that the ideologies of illegality and ghettoization have been a major driving force in shaping power relations and the nature of social action and collective consciousness. At the broader level, the paper draws on the case study of Cova da Moura to illustrate how grassroots mobilizing in slum neighbourhoods needs to be understood in the battleground of competing forces for the social production of space. This spatial politics constitutes the meeting place where domination meets resistance, where collective struggles become expressions of a greater awareness for the intersection of oppression, marginalization, exploitation and space.
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机译：本文研究了里斯本周边科瓦达穆拉（Cova da Moura）的移徙s屋定居点中，空间话语的变化性质和基层组织的动态。它着重于关于这个社区的官方话语以及这些话语如何塑造当地的集体组织。本文的第一部分列出了定居点的起源和发展，重点是移民社区组织的出现。第二部分探讨了在过去的三十年中，主流的官方言论和政策如何产生非法和贫民窟化的意识形态。人们对空间话语的理解与它们出现的具体社会和历史条件有关。在第三部分中，特别强调谈判的过程以及地方集体动员产生的阻力。有人认为，非法和贫民窟化思想已成为塑造权力关系以及社会行为和集体意识性质的主要动力。在更广泛的层面上，本文以库瓦达穆拉（Cova da Moura）的案例研究为例，说明在贫民窟社区动员的基层如何在竞争力量的战场上理解太空的社会生产。这种空间政治构成了统治与抵抗相遇的交汇处，那里的集体斗争成为对压迫，边缘化，剥削和空间交集的更高认识的表达。
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