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Affective registers of favela infrastructure in Rio de Janeiro

Social & Cultural Geography, 2021
Infrastructural projects in Brazilian favelas have long elicited complex meanings and emotions amongst those living with the new built systems. In this paper, I discuss residents’ everyday engagements with a major slum upgrading project in Complexo do ...
C. Prouse
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A Favela That Yields Fruit: Community-Based Tour Guides as Brokers in the Political Economy of Cultural Difference

Space and Culture, 2020
Reversing decades of fear and neglect as no-go zones for outsiders, Rio de Janeiro’s most iconic favela communities have become tourist attractions offering a glimpse of the purported “other side” of Brazilian society as well as panoramic vistas over the
A. Angelini
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Hashtag favela: Instagram, space and identity in urban Brazil

, 2020
Instagram is a virtual, multi-authored platform that symbolizes geographic realities by allowing its users to capture time-and-space-specific characteristics through photographs or videos.
J. Worms, A. Gras-Velázquez
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Favelas

2017
The introduction historicizes the evolution of favelas in the imaginary of the city. It illustrates how favelas, constructed as a site of Otherness and/or authenticity, have become more recently a consumable good. With the pacification process, favelas have become a seductive component of the city, attracting many interests, and a clear process of ...
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The Invention of the Favela

, 2019
For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares’s classic anthropological study of Brazil’s vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive ...
L. Valladares, R. N. Anderson
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Favelas regieren

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 2007
Ruling favelas - the relationship between state, drug trafficking and favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Through the deployment of Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, this paper sets out to discuss the question of how irregular settlements (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro are governed by complex and intertwined relationships of different actors.
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Flavia's Tour Favela

Photographies, 2010
vi. “After twenty minutes or so, Mr Antick, Mr Z and Ms Y were joined by two middle aged gentlemen, Mr. E and Mr. F, who had recently returned from a pleasure trip to Costa Rica.” See P.
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