Postcards from Rio : Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship /

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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:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban poor.
Squatter settlements.
Social conditions.
Slums.
Marginality, Social.
Citizenship.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Bidonvilles > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Squatter settlements > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Urban poor > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Citizenship > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Marginality, Social > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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