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Food retail in favelas of a Brazilian metropolis
Food SecurityLuana Lara Rocha +2 more
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International journal of human resources management, 2023
This study aims to understand how extreme working conditions, work intensification, and employee well-being are related in the context of dirty work. We conducted a grounded theory study through interviews with 57 workers in so called ‘dirty jobs’ who ...
Bruno Felix +2 more
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This study aims to understand how extreme working conditions, work intensification, and employee well-being are related in the context of dirty work. We conducted a grounded theory study through interviews with 57 workers in so called ‘dirty jobs’ who ...
Bruno Felix +2 more
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Criminal factions and ICT-Mediated financial inclusion in Brazilian favelas: the role of context
Information Technology for Development, 2023The city of Rio de Janeiro has the highest proportion of people living in favelas in Brazil and their residents have very restricted access to financial services, often needing to commute to other neighborhoods to make simple transactions.
L. Joia, Stefano Giarelli
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Landscape and tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas
Landscape Research, 2022Rio de Janeiro relies on tourism as one of its main economic activities, based on the attractions of its natural and human-made settings. The social inequality found in the city's favelas affects this scenario.
Sergio Moraes Rego Fagerlande
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Beyond the Favelas: An Analysis of Intraurban Poverty Patterns in Brazil
, 2021Despite evidence to the contrary, favelas still loom large in Brazilian social imaginary as the quintessential poverty pockets. No study to date has systematically examined the place of favelas within the broader geographies of poverty in Brazilian ...
Camila Carvalho +1 more
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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 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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Visual Studies, 2020
Favelas are relatively poor and highly racialised urban areas, historically associated with violent criminality but also with cultural creativity. The cable car and the helicopter, two technologies of transport and surveillance that capture the favelas ...
B. Freire-Medeiros +3 more
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Favelas are relatively poor and highly racialised urban areas, historically associated with violent criminality but also with cultural creativity. The cable car and the helicopter, two technologies of transport and surveillance that capture the favelas ...
B. Freire-Medeiros +3 more
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas in Brazil
Critical AI, 2023F. Twine
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