This article examines residents' everyday experiences and perceptions of changing urban politics and racism in a "pacified" favela, or poor informal neighbourhood, in Rio de Janeiro, drawing on longitudinal ethnographic data from 2011 to 2018. The findings suggest that despite a discourse on inclusion, human rights, and citizenship, the police pacification program and urban security interventions aimed at "civilizing" the favela's residents as "undesirable others," drawing on racialization. The naturalization, ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Society in Latin America
2020 - Routledge | Ethnic and Racial Studies
SEIERSTAD, Åsne. 101 dias em Bagdá. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2006.
Tópico(s): Urban and sociocultural dynamics
2006 - | Tiraz
This article discusses everyday spatial heritage practices in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. It focusses on the experiences of faveladas, Black and poor women residents of the favelas, as they build their houses and struggle for political memory in the city. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and photowalks conducted in 2011–2013 and 2018 with residents of the favelas of Pavão-Pavãozinho and Cantagalo (PPG), this article documents the insurgent heritage practices of 'women warriors' and analyses the ways ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Intercultural Studies