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"ll three initiatives, residents respond to what they perceive as gaps in the dominant mode of mapping. In Poço da Draga, official mapping of census data has been used to capture the community's precarities through negative socio-economic indicators, which contribute to stigmatising them. A similar gap was perceived by residents of Bom Jardim, who were also afraid that their shared memory of occupying the land and resisting eviction would be lost by the prevailing narrative of the neighbourhood. In Pici, residents felt the necessity to control use of their shared spa"

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