My PhD research focuses on the narratives of rights produced by the local NGO Redes da Maré, which is based in Maré, a set of 16 favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Maré is a neighbourhood of almost 140 thousand residents (Redes da Maré 2019) that carries a legacy of exclusion in virtue of the segregating modern and neoliberal policies that shaped the city of Rio (Silva 2015, Brum 2018, Jacques 2002, Zaluar and Alvito 2006, Escobar 1995, Quijano 2005). As a territory, Maré is under a dispute of narratives, which, on one hand, symbolizes it as a place of resistance and emancipation. On the other, it deals with stereotypes of precariousness and violence, particularly in relation to racism and issues of public security and access to justice. Because of constant repression from authorities, Redes da Maré works to guarantee residents can exercise their rights and, at the same time, to build awareness over rights through mobilisation and policy advocacy. As such, the production of narratives is part of the organisation’s aim to create a collective consciousness of rights –to basic needs, to public security, to education, to culture– historically precluded for the population. Narratives are the focal point of this work as they are positioned in the center of knowledge production, and conceived as a method for inquiring what is underneath the hegemonic discourses that homogenise favelas. In this work, I investigate the modes in which these narratives are convened –by means of temporary urban interventions, publications, open discussions, art, and cultural projects– and discuss how they affect the spatial experience of residents and the representations of the territory. I call these modes ‘practices of narration’ and consider each of them part of an ecology of knowledges, as proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2014). I argue the ecology of practices of narration exists to dismantle an ecology of stereotypes that portrays Maré as a platform of violence (Viana in Redes da Maré 2019), inhibiting its residents from accessing an ecology of rights. Taking the practices of narration as the unit of analysis (Miraftab 2017, Huq 2020), I gathered narratives from NGO members using methods of ethnography and participatory research to unveil alternative forms of planning and city-making outside of normative regulations imposed by the government. Following theories from urban studies (Roy 2005, 2017, Miraftab 2009, 2017, Rolnik 2019, Huq 2020, Holston 1998), decolonial (Escobar 1995, 2017, Quijano 2005, Maldonado-Torres 2007, Lugones 2008, Santos 2014, etc.), postcolonial (Bhabha 2019) and feminist thinking (hooks 2004, 2015, Gonzalez 2019, Federici 2014, Alcoff 2017, etc.), I seek to depict the practices of narration observed in Maré, unfolding their rituals of care and engagement. Through them, I discuss representation, planning imagination, and the ethics of care in light of my experiences with organisation members and the multiple narratives of rights they entail. Finally, the research reveals how practices of narration can offer insights for similar contexts and elucidate other paths of investigation with social movements and organisations in the Global South.