LabJuta – Territorial Justice Laboratory, situated at the Federal University of ABC, was established in 2015 by a collaborative effort among professors, students, researchers, and community leaders. It serves as a research and extension laboratory dedicated to conducting activities on various themes such as popular housing, territorial planning and management, environmental and urban engineering, social movements, human rights, public health, and political ecology. These activities employ research methodologies including action research, participatory research, and other forms of collaborative research, alongside popular education. The aim is to contribute to the co-production of knowledge and solutions through action and reflection on situations and conflicts directly or indirectly affecting marginalized communities.

Since its creation, LabJuta has consolidated itself as a university research and extension laboratory with a strong role in the production and analysis of territories, their connections and insurgencies. It fosters exchanges between scientific and popular knowledge to collectively produce and understand the contemporary social phenomena, and address issues that structure the (re)production of unequal and unjust territories.

To develop its studies, activities and reflections, LabJuta is committed to strengthen solidarity and organizational processes with populations and popular movements made vulnerable by the capitalist process of space production, systematizing knowledge for understanding territorial dynamics. It operates based on the following principles:

– Engaging in knowledge production and action to strengthen territorial perceptions, popular education, and the citizenship of excluded and vulnerable populations.

– Facilitating collective knowledge construction through interaction with various stakeholders, emphasizing listening, recognition, and participatory influence in defending territories.

– Actively immersing in popular territories to expand knowledge, bolster resistance, promote popular education, and exchange knowledge and insurgent practices.

– Grounding knowledge production in grassroots spaces, acknowledging inherent conflicts, determinants, agents, and potentials to enhance living conditions.

– Building knowledge together with actors who discuss and dispute the construction of fairer territories, involving action-research methodology where researchers and participants contribute collectively and democratically to confronting and understanding contemporary exclusionary phenomena;

– Contributing to the recognition and strengthening of identities, ways of life, belonging and daily life that promote territorial justice, the social construction of memory and culture as fundamental rights;

– Establishing ongoing dialogues between academia, social movements, organizations, and institutions through interdisciplinary and intersectoral action to promote and strengthen democracy;

– Committing to university democratization by implementing affirmative policies and practices to include interlocutors from the territories in which LabJuta operate, people affected by policies and infrastructures, young people and leaders of popular movements so that they can be the protagonists of their stories.

Territorial Justice

• The informally produced city and housing: conflicts and alternative solutions

This research line aims to produce knowledge about informally produced cities and territories, elucidating conflicts, complexities, and the multiple determination of problems and injustices. Additionally, it seeks to explore alternatives for enhancing the living conditions of their inhabitants.

• Novel Perspectives on territorial indicators

This research line aims to generate insights about inequalities and inequities inherent to the production, reproduction and appropriation of the territory, including its infrastructures. It also strives to develop associated knowledge, and readings, narratives and indicators conducive to fostering the redistribution of territorial opportunities and positive equity.

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• Analysis of territorial dynamics based on socio-environmental relations

This research line aims to understand territorial dynamics by examining the socio-environmental relationships that form territories. It starts with the premise that the environment is the result of relational interactions between humans and non-humans which, in turn, are mediated by economic and political processes. Consequently, our analysis delves into how the environment is constituted in different spaces as a result of the production of territories through the analysis of power flows, inequality and reflexive interactions.

• Theoretical reflections on territorial planning and political ecology

This research line delves into the intersection between Political Ecology and Territorial Planning. By recognizing that Political Ecology is a research agenda that, at its core, reflects on how economic-political processes unevenly shape the environment, it aligns itself with the practice of territorial planning, which is based on relational, inter-sectoral reflection and the recognition of the spatial relationships present in the multi-scalarity and multiple dimensions that make up these spaces.

Allan Razera | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC
allan.razera@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Amanda Ganzarolli | Researcher | Masters Student Metodista
aamandaganzarolli@gmail.com | Lattes

Ana Carolina Soares Ribeiro | Researcher | Undergrad Student BPT/UFABC

Ana Luiza Vieira Gonçalves| Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC,  Architect at Coletivo MOLA
vgoncalves.analu@gmail.com | Lattes

Angélica Santamaría Alvarado | Pesquisadora | Doutoranda PGT/UFABC, estagiária de pesquisa Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica

santamaria.alvarado@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Beatriz Morais Lima | Researcher | Undergrad Student EAU/UFABC
b.morais@aluno.ufabc.edu.br 

Benedito Roberto Barbosa | Researcher | Lawyer UMMSP and Centro Gaspar Garcia de Direitos Humanos
ditocmp@gmail.com | Lattes

Bruno Avellar Alves de Lima | Researcher | Postdoctoral Researcher LEPUR/UFABC

bruno.avellar.lima@gmail.com | Lattes

Bruno Dias dos Santos | Collaborator | Masters Student INPE
brdiasdossantos@gmail.com | Lattes

Bruno Ricardo Miragaia Souza | Researcher | Public Defender São Paulo State
bmiragaia@gmail.com | Lattes

Caio Santo Amore | Collaborator | Professor FAUUSP and Peabiru
santoamore@usp.br | Lattes

Carolina Vigliar | Collaborator | Movimento de Mulheres Olga Benário and MLB
carolina.vigliar@gmail.com 

Cecilia Maria de Morais Machado Angileli | Collaborator | UNILA
cecilia.angileli@unila.edu.br | Lattes

Cilene Victor| Collaborator | Professor, Graduate program in Social Communication, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
cilenevictor@gmail.com | Lattes

Cláudia Cruz Soares | Collaborator | Pedagogical Coordinator UNAS
clauambiente@gmail.com

Danilo Lima Zillig | Collaborator | Public Server UFABC
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Davi Carlos Passos dos Santos | Collaborator | Masters Student PGT/UFABC
davi.santos@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Delana Corazza | Collaborator | Research Coordinator Instituto Tricontinental de Pesquisa Social
delanacorazza@gmail.com | Lattes

Driely de Oliveira Carvalho | Collaborator | Assessora Técnica Peabiru
driely.arq@gmail.com | Lattes

Douglas Pereira de Souza | Researcher | Ph.D. Student Saúde Pública FSP/USP
douglasdc7@usp.br | Lattes

Edson Aparecido da Silva | Collaborator | Observatório Nacional pelos Direitos à Água e ao Saneamento (ONDAS)
edsonsaneamento@gmail.com | Lattes

Elaine Ferreira Rosa | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC and activist UMM/SP
rosaelaine.social@gmail.com | Lattes

Eliane Alves da Silva | Collaborator | Postdoctoral researcher UFABC
elalves2014@gmail.com | Lattes

Ellen Emerich Carulli | Researcher | Environmental Analyst at Arcadis
emerich.carulli@gmail.com | Lattes

Fernanda Donegá Martins | Researcher | Undergrad Student UFABC
fernanda.dngm@gmail.com | Lattes

Fernanda Kagan Mallak | Collaborator | UFSCar
fernandakmallak@gmail.com | Lattes

Fernando Botton | Researcher |  Architect at FIO Assessoria Técnica Popular
f.botton@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Francisco de Assis Comaru | Coordenador | Professor UFABC
francisco.comaru@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Francisco Marcio Marques dos Santos | Collaborator | Masters Student UMESP
kicosantos@gmail.com | Lattes

Gabriel Alves da Silva Júnior | Researcher | Councelor CONDEPE, Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC

gabriel.junior@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Gabriel Ancilotto Idú | Researcher | Undergrad Student BPT/UFABC
idu.gabriel@aluno.ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Gabriela Farias Asmus | Researcher | Professora EAU/UFABC
a.gabriela@ufabc.edu.br

Giulia Ferrazzano | Researcher | UFABC

Hugo Fanton Ribeiro da Silva | Researcher | UFABC, CMP and USP
hfanton@gmail.com

Hugo Kamiya Tsutsui | Researcher | Master PGT/UFABC
hugo.kamiya@gmail.com | Lattes

Hulda Erna Wehmann | Researcher | Postdoctoral researcher UFABC
hulda@alumni.usp.br | Lattes

Isabella Alho | Researcher | Undergrad Student EAU/UFABC
isabellaalho@gmail.com | Lattes

Jade Cavalhieri | Researcher | UFABC
jadecavalhieri@gmail.com

Jucelia de Oliveira | Collaborator | Ph.D. Student UFABC
jucelia.oliveira@ufabc.edu.br

Kelseny Medeiros Pinho | Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC
kelseny.medeiros@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Leticia Costa de Oliveira Santos | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC
costa.leticia@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Leonardo Varallo | Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC
leonardovarallo@gmail.com | Lattes

Lilian Ribeiro Sanches | Collaborator | Ph.D. Student Psicologia Social/USP
liliansanches@usp.br | Lattes

Louis Marie Ndomo Edoa | Collaborator | Masters Student Comunicação PPGCOM/UMESP
louisnelma40@gmail.com | Lattes

Lucas Lerchs | Researcher | Collaborator UMM-SP 

lucas.lerchs@gmail.com

Luciana Bedeschi | Researcher | Tax Advisor Centro Gaspar Garcia de Direitos Humanos
lucianabedeschi@gmail.com | Lattes

Luciana Guimarães Moreira | Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC
guimaraes.luciana@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Luciana Nicolau Ferrara | Researcher | Professor CECS/UFABC
luciana.ferrara@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Luis Roberto de Paula | Collaborator | Professor BPT and BHC/UFABC
luis.roberto@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Luiz Kohara | Researcher | Centro Gaspar Garcia de Direitos Humanos
luizkohara@gmail.com

Marcelo Aversa | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC
m.aversa@uol.com.br | Lattes

Mariana de Sousa Caires | Collaborator | Masters Student PCHS/UFABC
mariana.caires@aluno.ufabc.edu.br

Mariana Ohara Morita Abreu | Researcher | Undergrad Student BCH BPT/UFABC
mariana.ohara@aluno.ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Marilene Ribeiro de Souza | Researcher | União dos Movimentos de Moradia de São Paulo (UMM-SP)
ribeiro.souzamarilene@gmail.com

Marina Rago Moreira | Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC
marina.moreira@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Nathália Conte Mendes Batista | Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC
batista.ncm@gmail.com | Lattes

Nathália de Cássia Costa | Researcher | Undergrad Student BCT and EAU/UFABC
costa.nathalia@aluno.ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Patricia Cezario Silva | Coordenadora adjunta | Professor UFABC
patricia.cezario@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Patricia Maria de Jesus | Researcher | Professor BPT and BHC/UFABC
patricia.maria@ufabc.edu.br

Rayssa Saidel Cortez | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC
cortezrayssa@gmail.com | Lattes

Renata Cristina Ferreira | Researcher | Ph.D. Student UNESP
rereambiental@gmail.com | Lattes

Renata Elias Juliotti | Collaborator | Masters Student Comunicação Social UMESP
renata.juliotti@gmail.com | Lattes

Renata Pereira Sarti | Researcher | Undergrad Student PGT/UFABC
renata.sarti@aluno.ufabc.edu.com | Lattes

Ricardo de Sousa Moretti | Researcher | Professor PGT/UFABC
ufabc.moretti@gmail.com | Lattes

Rodrigo Cardoso Bonicenha | Collaborator | Garmic
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Rodrigo José Paixão | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC

Sheila Cristiane Santos Nobre | Researcher | União dos Movimentos de Moradia de São Paulo (UMM-SP)
sheilachan.nobre@gmail.com

Silvana Zioni | Collaborator | Professor PGT/UFABC
silvana.zioni@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Talita Anzei Gonsales | Researcher | Ph.D. Student PGT/UFABC and Researcher at Observatório de Remoções
talita.anzei@gmail.com

Tamires Barboza de Jesus | Researcher | UFABC
barbozaa.tamires@gmail.com | Lattes

Thais Tartalha | Researcher | Professor do BCH/BPT/PGT/UFABC, vice-coordenadora do BCH/UFABC
thais.tartalha@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Ulisses Terra | Collaborator | Ph.D. PGT/UFABC
ulissesterra@yahoo.com.br

Vanessa Lucena Empinotti | Researcher | Professor BCH/BPT/PGT/UFABC and eco.t Research Group Coordinator
v.empinotti@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Veridiana Emília Godoy | Researcher | Masters Student PGT/UFABC and Architect and Urbanist at Coletivo MOLA
veridiana.godoy@ufabc.edu.br | Lattes

Victor Augusto Silva Albano | Researcher | Undergrad Student UFABC
victor.albano.tm@gmail.com

Vitor Hugo Alves dos Santos | Researcher | Undergrad Student BPT/UFABC
vitor.hugoalves99@gmail.com