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In Rio de Janeiro's favelas, traffickers assert power through conspicuous displays of wealth and force, brandishing high-powered guns, gold jewelry, and piles of cash and narcotics. Police, for their part, conduct raids reminiscent of action films or video games, wearing masks and riding in enormous armored cars called "big skulls." Images of these spectacles circulate constantly in local, national, and global media, masking everyday forms of violence, prejudice, and inequality. The Spectacular Favela offers a rich ethnographic examination of the political economy of spectacular violence in Rocinha, Rio's largest favela. Based on more than two years of residence in the community, the book explores how entangled forms of violence shape everyday life and how that violence is, in turn, connected to the market economy. Erika Robb Larkins shows how favela violence is produced as a marketable global brand. While this violence is projected in disembodied form through media, the favela is also sold as an embodied experience through the popular practice of favela tourism. The commodification of the favela becomes a form of violence itself; favela violence is transformed into a commercially viable byproduct of a profit-driven war on drugs, which serves to keep the poor marginalized. This book tells the story of how traffickers, police, cameras, tourists, and even anthropologists come together to create what the author calls the "spectacular favela."  

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"Rio 2016 assembles the views of leading experts on Brazil and the Olympics into a clear-eyed assessment of the impact of the games on Brazil in general and on the lives of Cariocas, as Rio's residents are known"--Publisher's website.

Tourism --- Social aspects --- Industrial economics --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Economic aspects --- Olympic Games --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Summer Olympics --- Jogos Olímpicos de Verão --- Games of the XXXI Olympiad --- Games of the Olympiad --- Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada --- Jogos da Olimpíada --- Jeux olympiques‏ --- Economics --- Brazil --- Favela --- International Olympic Committee --- Rio de Janeiro

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Oorlogen, interne conflicten en natuurgeweld teisteren de wereld. Miljoenen mensen zijn op de vlucht en zoeken naar nieuwe veiligere plekken om zich tijdelijk of blijvend te vestigen. ‘Human Settlements’ gaat dieper in op de architectonische, stedenbouwkundige en planologische aspecten van moderne nederzettingen. Zowel praktijkvoorbeelden uit de periode 1960-1980 als hedendaagse cases sinds 1990 worden geanalyseerd.

Architecture and society --- Human settlements --- Regional planning --- Refugees --- Architecture et société --- Etablissements humains --- Aménagement du territoire --- Réfugiés --- Case studies --- Cas, Etudes de --- Human settlements. --- Refugees. --- Regional planning. --- 711.4(C) --- Stedenbouw ; architectuur ; nederzettingen ; sloppenwijken ; kampen --- Vluchtelingenkampen --- Conflictgebieden --- Architectuur ; oplossingen voor de derde wereld --- Vernaculaire ; traditionele ; synthese met hedendaagse architectuur --- Stedenbouw ; architectuur ; voor slachtoffers van rampen --- Favela's --- Sociale geografie ; opvang ; onderdak ; minderbedeelden --- 711.4 --- 911.375 --- 728.1 --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Steden. Studie van stedelijke vestiging. Geografie van steden. Stadsgeografie --- Woonhuizen. Woningbouw (algemeen) --- 728.1 Woonhuizen. Woningbouw (algemeen) --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Architecture et société --- Aménagement du territoire --- Réfugiés --- Regional development --- State planning --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Habitat, Human --- Human habitat --- Settlements, Human --- Human ecology --- Human geography --- Population --- Sociology --- Land settlement --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Case studies.