Postcards from Rio : favelas and the contested geographies of citizenship

Postcards from Rio : favelas and the contested geographies of citizenship /

New Postcards from Rio de Janeiro examines the interconnections between notions of citizenship and space in the works of favela-based cultural producers. It argues that the emphasis on the favela daily life generates an aesthetic of representation involved in the rewriting of the city as part of a p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bezerra, Kátia da Costa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Marginality, Social > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Citizenship > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Urban poor > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Squatter settlements > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
15.85 history of America.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Citizenship
Marginality, Social
Slums
Social conditions
Squatter settlements
Urban poor
Slum
Stadtentwicklung
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Photographs and favelas : toward a process of self-discovery and belonging
  • Videos, favelas, and childhood : reclaiming new symbolic geographies
  • Favelas for sale : resisting the easy links between democracy and urban restructuring plans
  • Monuments and consumption : defying mechanisms of social and spatial stratification.

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