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Author |
: Licia do Prado Valladares |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1469649985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781469649986 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of the Favela by : Licia do Prado Valladares
For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established--and even attractive and exotic--representation of poverty. The study traces how the term "favela" emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Licia do Prado Valladares |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2019-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469649993 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469649993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of the Favela by : Licia do Prado Valladares
For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term "favela" emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Alan Mayne |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 463 |
Release |
: 2017-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780238876 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780238878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slums by : Alan Mayne
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Author |
: Mike Davis |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2007-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781844671601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1844671607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Planet of Slums by : Mike Davis
Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
Author |
: Adriana Kertzer |
Publisher |
: Bowker Identifier Services |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2014-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0692844325 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780692844328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Favelization: The Imaginary Brazil in Contemporary Film, Fashion, and Design by : Adriana Kertzer
In Favelization, a book originally published by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Adriana Kertzer sets out to understand the ways in which specific producers of contemporary Brazilian culture capitalized on misappropriations of favelas (informal squatter settlements that grow along the hillsides and lowlands of many Brazilian cities) in order to brand luxury items as "Brazilian." Through case studies that look at films, fashion, and furniture design, she explains how designers and filmmakers engage with primitivism and stereotype to make their goods more desirable to a non-Brazilian audience. Favelization looks at the films Waste Land and City of God, shirts designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana for Lacoste, and furniture by Brunno Jahara and David Elia. Kertzer argues that the processes of interpretation, transcendence and domination are part of the favelization phenomena. The book locates design as part of a broader constellation of representations that includes a variety of forms from printed media to film. It provides visual and material analyses, as well as theoretically discussions that draw on works by scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies such as John Tagg, Edward Said, Mariana Torgovnick, Mike Davis, and Trinh T. Minh-Ha. While focused on favelization, this work raises questions about the ethical conundrums associated with using the "Other" in commercial design work.
Author |
: David Nemer |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2022-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262543347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262543346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Technology of the Oppressed by : David Nemer
How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don’t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish. Nemer uses a decolonial and intersectional framework called Mundane Technology as an analytical tool to understand how digital technologies can simultaneously be sites of oppression and tools in the fight for freedom. Building on the work of the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, he shows how the favela residents appropriate everyday technologies—technological artifacts (cell phones, Facebook), operations (repair), and spaces (Telecenters and Lan Houses)—and use them to alleviate the oppression in their everyday lives. He also addresses the relationship of misinformation to radicalization and the rise of the new far right. Contrary to the simplistic techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Yet the spirit, love, community, resilience, and resistance of favela residents make possible their pursuit of freedom.
Author |
: Enrique Desmond Arias |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807830604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807830607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drugs & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro by : Enrique Desmond Arias
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies.
Author |
: Brian Wolf |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2019-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498563451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498563457 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Good Trouble by : Brian Wolf
This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on the leading edge of important, positive social changes and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society. Brian Wolf concludes with an examination of the problem of conformity and how deviant heroism in everyday life may be a remedy for injustice in micro-level social contexts.
Author |
: Janice E. Perlman |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520039521 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520039520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Myth of Marginality by : Janice E. Perlman
Author |
: Fernanda Magalhães (City planner) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2012-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1597821632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781597821636 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slum Upgrading by : Fernanda Magalhães (City planner)