Epistemic injustice, risk mapping and climatic events: analysing epistemic resistance in the context of favela removal in Rio de Janeiro [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2020 Environmental and climate justice scholarship has increasingly focused on how knowledge and expertise play into the production of injustice and into strategies of resistance and activist claim making.
L. Mendes Barbosa, G. Walker
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Geografares, 2017 RESUMO O presente artigo discute a prática de remoção relacionada à implantação dos programas habitacionais e de renovação urbana, no Brasil, e seus impactos sociais e espaciais, em particular do programa Morar Feliz da Prefeitura Municipal de Campos ...
Teresa de Jesus Peixoto Faria +1 more
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Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s
Planning PerspectivesMaria Fernanda Derntl
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, 2021 After the severe landslides that affected Rio de Janeiro in April 2010, causing 67 deaths, the city authorities implemented what they called “a paradigm shift” in responding to disasters. This new approach, which echoes international discourses on urban resilience, builds on the government of urban uncertainties through risk technologies.
Mendes Barbosa, Luciana +2 more
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Transforming informal communities through discourse intervention:RioOnWatch, favelas and the 2016 Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2018 In August 2016, tens of thousands of journalists descended on Rio de Janeiro to cover the summer Olympic Games held in that city. While the majority covered the action on the track, many sought stories about the city itself, world famous for startling ...
Talbot, Adam
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Community and Communion Radio: Listening to Evangelical Programmes in a Brazilian Favela [PDF]
, 2013 According to academics and regulators, Evangelical and community radio belong to different sectors. Yet, in the favela, the urban environment and set of airwaves were saturated with religious sounds and programmes.
Andrea Medrado +27 more
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The Paradigm of Potency and the Pedagogy of Coexistence [PDF]
, 2018 At present, hate and social indifference dominate public debate, political rhetoric and media narratives. They gain momentum in the disrespect generated by ethnic, moral and religious discourse — one that emphasizes opposition to the other, to the ...
Barbosa, Jorge +2 more
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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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Parque Madureira: Exceptional or Merely Good in Comparison?
Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2016 Nearly all the major urban planning initiatives associated with the ongoing transformation of Rio de Janeiro, such as the renovation of the port district, the creation of the Olympic village, and the opening of cross-municipal bus-rapid-transit lines ...
Bryan McCann
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Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment. [PDF]
, 2018 Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are arboreal marsupials native to Australia that eat a specialized diet of almost exclusively eucalyptus leaves.
Dahlhausen, Katherine E +4 more
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