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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A Social Inequality Report
Medicina, 2021 Background and Objectives: To perform a retrospective report on the lethality of COVID-19 in different realities in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ).
Yago Bernardo +2 more
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Humanitarismo e a favela global: violência urbana e ação humanitária no Rio de Janeiro
Contexto Internacional, 2014 O artigo analisa criticamente os dilemas envolvidos nas recentes intervenções de organizações humanitárias internacionais em contextos urbanos do Sul Global.
Carolina Moulin, Jana Tabak
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Territórios tensionados: uma amostra do antropoceno no cenário de Campo Grande - MS
Revista Ñanduty, 2023 Este ensaio tem como objetivo geral discutir a forma como as práticas de violência institucional e de racismo ambiental impactam a vida de pessoas historicamente vulnerabilizadas, ao lançar luz sobre o cenário das favelas de Campo Grande - MS.
Tatiana Quintana Samper Lovatto +1 more
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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EchoGéo, 2014 Public security is a challenge in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. The city, which seeks to be a central player on the international scene has redefined its security strategy by reaffirming the public authorities power in the favelas through ...
Justine Ninnin
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although family reintegration of street‐connected youth has become the main objective of many governmental and civil society organizations, achieving this remains a complex task. This article explores what contributes to successful and sustainable change in work with street‐connected young people and their families based on descriptions ...
Annika Lehtonen
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História e favelas cariocas: um encontro tardio [PDF]
TopoiRESUMO O objetivo deste trabalho é refletir sobre a construção das favelas como objeto de pesquisa histórica. Se outras disciplinas das Ciências Sociais compreenderam a importância de usar a história como ferramenta metodológica para estudar a realidade ...
Mario Brum +2 more
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Making a Living: The Digitization of Rebusques Among Colombians
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines making a living through the digitization of rebusque, a Colombian term for practices within the informal economy. Drawing on multi‐sited digital ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2025 with Colombian immigrants in Chile and in Colombia, I show how rebusques became central to economic survival during the COVID‐19 ...
Julián Andrés Riveros Clavijo
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