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O urbanismo entre a favela e o chique [PDF]
As representações de territórios de favelas têm múltiplas camadas de significação. Neste post, Ann Deslandes discute as promessas e perigos de projetos ‘favela chic’, representações particulares e releituras de favelas na ...
Deslandes, Ann
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
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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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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Sobre o impacto social e sua avaliação em organizações baseadas na favela [PDF]
Não basta ter boas intenções para realizar intervenções sociais nos territórios de favelas. Neste post, Daniel S. Lacerda discute a importância de avaliar o impacto social em seu contexto, explicando por que as ONGs instaladas em favelas devem garantir ...
Lacerda, Daniel S.
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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective [PDF]
Creative labour studies focus almost exclusively on Euro-American metropolitan ‘creative hubs’ and hence the creative worker they theorize is typically white, middle-class, urban and overwhelmingly male.
Alacovska, A., Gill, R.
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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
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História e favelas cariocas: um encontro tardio [PDF]
RESUMO 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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Social transformations in Brazil: continuing a dialogue on bottom-up experiences of social development [PDF]
In the first post of the Favelas@LSE Blog, Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jacqueline Priego discuss recent transformations in social development and civic engagement in Brazil.
Jovchelovitch, Sandra +1 more
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ABSTRACT The representative bureaucracy literature asserts that minority personnel in public organizations can promote their social group either through their own behavior or by influencing other staff members or focal citizens. However, these phenomena have not been examined in wartime settings in ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous organizations.
Maayan Davidovitz, Chen Schechter
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Poor youths and ‘pacification’:dilemmas between discourse and practice from the perspective of young people about policing in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas [PDF]
This article explores the social representations of youngsters from favelas in Rio de Janeiro on police practices in the context of the implementation of ‘Pacifying Police Units’.
Agamben G +62 more
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