Professor Jeffrey Lesser presents his lecture "Living and dying in the "worst" neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil on the panel "Everyday Interactions Under Pressure" (in English and Portuguese).
The International Conference "Living on the Edge: Studying Conviviality-Inequality in Uncertain Times" took place on March 2020, at the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo.

• Abstract •
Bom Retiro was (and is) a small neighborhood in the huge megalopolis of São Paulo, Brazil. Filled with small factories and warehouses, the working-class neighborhood has been populated since the end of the nineteenth century by immigrants and Brazilians. While the cultural backgrounds of the newcomers have shifted (from Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese Catholics in the early 20th century
to East European Jews in the mid-twentieth century to Chinese, Korean and Bolivian immigrants today), many in Brazil’s dominant classes have viewed the neighborhood as one where health is precarious. “Living and Dying in the “Worst” The neighborhood of São Paulo” asks about constancy of inequality between “Public Health” and “The Public’s Health.” I treat the former as a project of institutions like governments, hospitals, and universities that lead to policies and professional training. I use “The Public’s Health” to represent the multiple ways that residents of immigrant-populated urban districts express ideas and undertake actions related to diseases and cures, ranging
from violence against health officials to the use of popular religion.

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