Talking about the 'rotten fruits' of Rio 2016:framing mega-event legacies [PDF]
, 2021 Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of legacy outcomes suggest there is only limited evidence for the efficacy of using ...
Talbot, Adam
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The languages of peace during the French religious wars [PDF]
, 2007 The desirability of peace was a common topos in sixteenth-century political rhetoric, and the duty of the king to uphold the peace for the benefit of his subjects was also a long-established tradition.
Bartas G. du +31 more
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The kingdom's two bodies? : corporeal rhetoric and royal authority during the religious wars [PDF]
, 2007 The conventional discourse of the body politic assumed a peculiar resonance during the French religious wars due to the unique identification of the king with the well-being of his kingdom.
Roberts, Penny
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Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police [PDF]
Dados: Revista de Ciências SociaisIn this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units ( Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018), “pacification” was represented by the media as an institutional hybrid which moved ...
Ludmila Mendonça Lopes Ribeiro +1 more
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La lógica de la pacificación: Guerra-policía-acumulación [PDF]
, 2016 This article argues that the concept of pacification allows us to understand the productive role that state violence plays in securing capital and fabricating bourgeois order.
Neocleous, MA
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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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On Unstable Ground: Issues Involved in Greening Space in the Rocinha Favela of Rio De Janeiro
Journal of Human Security, 2016 This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the ...
Lea Rekow
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Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2022 This article is interested in the contradictory articulation, within the first Wars of Religion (around 1562-around 1574), of injunctions to forget, coming from the monarchy, and claims to remember, emanating from confessional communities, whether ...
Jérémie Foa
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Humanitarian Action and Military Intervention: Temptations and Possibilities. [PDF]
, 2004 Although the war in Liberia in July 2003 claimed hundreds of lives, the international community was reluctant to intervene. In this article, the author debates the question: does international military intervention equal protection of populations?
Bradol +8 more
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From ‘pacification’ to ‘licence-to-kill’: Favela residents’ experience with the UPP from 2011-2018
Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2021 This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork to explore residents’ everyday experiences of urban militarisation in a ‘pacified’ favela in Brazil.
Åsne Håndlykken-Luz
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