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Collective heritage and urban politics: an uncertain future for the living culture of Rio de Janeiro?
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In the last decades, significant urban transformations in Rio de Janeiro led to rapid structural changes in the historic core of the city and the favelas The following population removals, eviAbstract:
During the last decades, significant urban transformations in Rio de Janeiro led to rapid structural changes in the historic core of the city and the favelas The following population removals, eviread more
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Resenha: Cidades rebeldes: Passe Livre e as manifestações que tomaram as ruas do Brasil
TL;DR: In this paper, Herminia et al. describe the manifestacoes that tomaram as ruas do Brasil, and present a survey of the manifestação.
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'Não são tijolos, são histórias' : the favela housing rights movement of Rio de Janeiro
Abstract: My doctoral research consisted of fourteen months of fieldwork following antieviction activity within informal settlements called favelas on public land in Rio de Janeiro. In the dissertation, I make a series of arguments. The first is that despite a lack of scholarly attention post-2016 Olympics, Rio is experiencing its own favela housing rights movement, land rights, and government investment in upgrading projects that deserves academic attention. Implied in the term is a concomitant fight for land rights—both of which are needed to avoid eviction. Secondly, I explain how government officials and others antagonistic to favela housing rights use environmentalist discourse to justify evictions of informal settlements—charging them with being ‘invaders’ that spoil the natural habitat of the city. In response, favela residents have re-appropriated the discourse of environmentalism to position and re-brand themselves as conservationists instead of ‘invaders’ as one of two alternative strategies to avoid eviction. Thirdly, and regarding the second alternative anti-eviction strategy, I explain how those against favela housing rights view favelas as places without culture or history that do not need to be saved from eviction. To subvert this narrative, residents have created favela museums and initiated tourism enterprises to prove that their communities have cultures and histories that are worth preserving. The fourth and fifth arguments correspond to the gender, class, and racial implications of these alternative strategies as interpreted through emotional politics. I argue that women (the predominant demographic in the movement) feel they must justify their leadership positions and participation in the movement by engaging in what I call performative vulnerability. Lastly, I explain how residents interpret the common justifications for favela removal (i.e. environmental destruction, favelas as places without history) as being truly about classism, and to a lesser extent racism. I contend that the general lack of awareness about the role of racism in favela evictions stems from the lingering ambivalence towards racial categorisation and the false belief that Afro-descendants do not face discrimination. This research engages with academic debates on the forced eviction of informal settlements, housing rights versus environmental rights, identity politics, and contributes to the literature on urban land and housing movements.
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The politics of conservation planning: A comparative study of urban heritage making in the Global North and the Global South
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of conservation planning systems in 5 countries, focusing on 5 city case-studies, was conducted to investigate how different planning systems have adopted and integrated urban heritage definitions and accordingly, how zoning techniques, governance levels and planning constraints have resulted in quite varied conservation planning outcomes.
Vila Autódromo in dispute: subjects, instruments and strategies to reinvent the space
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe various instruments and strategies that the residents and their supporters have used in order to resist the current city project and emphasize the transformative, emancipatory learning possibilities for all those who have participated within the process.
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Uses of heritage
TL;DR: The Uses of Heritage as mentioned in this paper explores the use of heritage throughout the world and argues that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but rather that these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities and to assert and affirm these values.
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The Cultures of Cities
TL;DR: The Museum In The Bershires with Philip Kasinitz as discussed by the authors is a museum dedicated to the history of art and culture in New York City, focusing on artists and immigrants.
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The 'New' Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession
TL;DR: The authors argue that the inability to accumulate through expanded reproduction on a sustained basis has been paralleled by a rise in attempts to accumulate by dispossession, which is the hallmark of what some like to call 'the new imperialism' is about.
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Remembering: A Phenomenological Study
TL;DR: The second edition of the Second Edition of The Amnesia of anamnesis as mentioned in this paper introduces the concept of remembering forgotten and the notion of remembering as an intentional state of mind.