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Shared Photography: (Photo)journalism and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro's favelas [PDF]
, 2016 One of the most important civic phenomena emerging from favelas in Rio de Janeiro today is “community (photo)journalism”, which is practised by favela residents who are trained in journalistic and artistic techniques to raise critical awareness and ...
Barconi, Alice, Mayr, Andrea
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2023 Presidential Address: Dignity and Denigration in Economic Life
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociologists have long addressed the puzzles posed by dignity. In The Polish Peasant, families went out of their way to provide a decent burial for their loved ones, even when social workers and others schooled in financial literacy advised against it. In some communities suffering from fracking, those who arrived to advocate for environmental
Frederick F. Wherry
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Where does digital sovereignty lie in building the Brazilian smart city?
Digital Geography and SocietyThis study aims to analyze how digital sovereignty— understood as self-determination over technologies, data, and digital infrastructures— is either fostered or neglected in the development of smart cities in Brazil.
Iara Schiavi +2 more
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Covid-19 and the Brazilian Reality: The Role of Favelas in Combating the Pandemic
Frontiers in Sociology, 2020 The consequences of coronavirus in favelas in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) point to social inequality as a structuring factor in Brazilian society. The contagion spread and multiple death cases reveal the multiplicity of existence ways that cohabit the urban ...
Luana Almeida de Carvalho Fernandes +3 more
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Métropoles, 2017 Following the selection of Rio de Janeiro as the host city of several major international events, a multitude of measures have been introduced in the favelas by both public and private stakeholders.
Francesca Pilo’
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, 2020 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.
Åsne Håndlykken-Luz
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Fractal analyses of networks of integrate-and-fire stochastic spiking neurons
, 2018 Although there is increasing evidence of criticality in the brain, the processes that guide neuronal networks to reach or maintain criticality remain unclear.
Amon, Mary Jean +3 more
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Differences in the Prevalence of Non-Communicable Disease between Slum Dwellers and the General Population in a Large Urban Area in Brazil. [PDF]
, 2017 Residents of urban slums are at greater risk for disease than their non-slum dwelling urban counterparts. We sought to contrast the prevalences of selected non-communicable diseases (NCDs) between Brazilian adults living in a slum and the general ...
Calcagno, Juan I +9 more
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Narrativas migrantes e políticas da representação
Rumores, 2012 Esta proposta busca articular uma análise das narrativas migrantes e políticas da representação sobre as favelas brasileiras em obras audiovisuais entre as décadas de 1990 e 2010, período da retomada comercial da produção cinematográfica no país ...
Paula Pereira Paschoalick, Daniele Gross
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Resistência aos números: a favela como realidade (in)quantificável
Mana, 2019 Resumo Os grandes números, as estatísticas estatais, são produzidos ao longo de uma extensa cadeia de transformações na qual se criam entidades de um tipo particular: as realidades estatísticas.
Eugênia Motta
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