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Book review: Touring poverty [PDF]
, 2013 Published online: 11 Sep ...
Sarmento, João Carlos Vicente
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Slum health: diseases of neglected populations. [PDF]
, 2007 BackgroundUrban slums, like refugee communities, comprise a social cluster that engenders a distinct set of health problems. With 1 billion people currently estimated to live in such communities, this neglected population has become a major reservoir for
Ko, Albert I +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de CancerologiaÉ crescente o entendimento acerca da necessidade de integração precoce do cuidado paliativo no contexto da oncologia, o que poderia contribuir para a melhoria dos desfechos clínicos e a promoção de qualidade de vida do número cada vez maior de pacientes ...
A. Silva +3 more
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Rio de Janeiro, Winter 2011 - The cidade maravilhosa’s expectations and contradictions [PDF]
, 2012 A Rio de Janeiro crossing during the Winter of 2011. Urban, social and economic contrasts and contradictions of a city that is preparing to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016. The ‘street cleaning’ of cidade maravilhosa:
Clemente, Mara
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1023-1040, December 2025.Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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A UTILIZAÇÃO DE TICS EM TERRITÓRIOS AUTOPRODUZIDOS. O mapeamento 4D da Rocinha e o direito à cidade
Seminario Internacional de Investigación en UrbanismoThis article proposes an observation about slums and ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), aiming to analyze in which measure, the use of contemporary technologies in poor areas can promote the reduction of social and spatial inequality in ...
Antonio Couto Nunes +1 more
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A different kind of security: The need for appropriate healthcare policies in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas [PDF]
, 2015 Much has been written about the utmost importance of tackling the security problem in Brazil’s favelas, as well as the troubled relations between favela residents and the police. In this post, Erika Robb Larkins complicates this picture by proposing that,
Larkins, Erika Robb
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British Journal of Management, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 1399-1415, October 2025.Abstract The ubiquitous entanglement of digital, social and mobile media – and increasingly generative artificial intelligence – in everyday life is reconstituting us (and our methodologies) as cyborg. This paper sets out to explore how cyborg methodologies can positively impact research practice and outcomes.
Josi Fernandes, Katy Mason
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Revista Habitus - Revista do Instituto Goiano de Pré-História e AntropologiaA presente pesquisa baseou-se na análise dos rituais e práticas funerárias realizadas no Caminho da Rocinha, no município de Boninal, Bahia. Trata-se de um território subdividido em pequenos povoados – Marcelos, Areão Branco, Rocinha, Ministro e Cutia –,
Fabiane Lopes Pereira Lima
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