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During the 1990's Rio de Janeiro earned the epithet of 'divided city,' an image underscored by the contrast between its upper-class buildings and nearby hillside 'favelas.' The city's cultural production, however, has been shaped by porous boundaries and multi-ethnic encounters. Drawing on a broad range of historical, theoretical and literary sources, Porous City generates new ways of understanding Rio's past, its role in the making of Brazilian culture, and its significance to key global debates about modernity and urban practices. This book offers an original perspective on Rio de Janeiro...
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- History. --- Civilization.
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'Reading Rio de Janeiro' blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand literature. By focusing on the theme of social integration through the novels of Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Aluisio Azevedo, the author draws the reader's attention to the way characters are caught between conflicting moral imperatives.
Brazilian fiction --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Brazilian literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social aspects --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Social conditions --- History and criticism
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Slavery --- -Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History --- -Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- -Social conditions --- -History --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Abolition of slavery --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Social conditions. --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.
Modernism (Literature) --- Motion pictures in literature. --- Brazilian literature --- Motion pictures and literature --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Moving-pictures in literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- In literature. --- In motion pictures.
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The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. Once viewed as a natural resource and a place of equitable access, deep meaning, and diverse functions, the street has changed into a space of exclusion that prioritizes automotive movement. Taking an environmental approach, Shawn William Miller surveys the costs and failures of this spatial transformation and demonstrates how Rio's citizens have resisted the automobile's intrusions and, in some cases, even reversed the long trend of closing the street against its potential utilities.
Public spaces --- Streets --- Community life --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Avenues --- Boulevards --- Thoroughfares --- Roads --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Social aspects --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Social conditions. --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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"Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil's first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America's first World's Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganize space that equated modernization with racial progress. It also considers the ways in which black and blackened subjects mobilized their own spatial logics to introduce alternative ways of occupying the city. Leu unpacks how the spaces of the urban poor are racialized, and the impact of this process for those who do not fit the ideal models of urbanity that come to define the national project. Defiant Geographies puts the mutual production of race and space at the heart of scholarship on Brazil's urban development and understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the country's racial past."-- ǂc Publisher description.
City planning --- Urban poor --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- City planning. --- Social conditions. --- Urban poor. --- General. --- 1900-1999 --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Brazil --- City dwellers --- Poor --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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"In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts. Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful petitions for emancipation, often using "free-womb" laws that declared that the children of enslaved women were legally free. She reveals how enslaved women's struggles connected to abolitionist movements in each city and the broader Atlantic World, mobilizing new notions about enslaved and free womanhood. She shows how women conceived freedom and then taught the "free-womb" generation to understand and shape the meaning of that freedom. Even after emancipation, freed women would continue to use these claims-making tools as they struggled to establish new spaces for themselves and their families in post emancipation society"--
Women slaves --- Antislavery movements --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Havana (Cuba) --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Race relations --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Slavery --- Slave women --- San Cristóbal de la Habana (Cuba) --- Gavana (Cuba) --- Habana (Cuba) --- La Havana (Cuba) --- La Habana (Cuba) --- La Havane (Cuba) --- Havane (Cuba) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- HISTORY / Latin America / General. --- Human rights movements --- Slaves --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Avana (Cuba) --- Enslaved women --- Havanna (Cuba)
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This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events. The case of Rio de Janeiro is presented as an example of a failing global strategy for urban redevelopment, entrepreneurial urban governance and the realization of mega-events. This book aims to present the real and critical state of the legacies of such mega-events. It shows how instead of the promised economic redemption, Rio is experiencing a severe economic, political and social crisis, handling three observation perspectives: the first is the description of urban transformations and mega events, assessing the contradictions in the model for the intended urban development and taking into account historical factors both at local and national level; the second restricts on neighborhoods as case studies representing an ensign of a neoliberal urban transformation’ results; the third links city and citizenship focusing tensions and inconsistencies and opening up a perspective on the importance of fostering the concept of citizenship, including actions, movements and initiatives that express the resistance and struggles around a possible new destination for Rio de Janeiro. Prof. Luiz Cesar de Quieroz Ribeiro and Dr. Filippo Bignami as General Editors thank Ana Paula Soares Carvalho, Humberto Meza, Niccoló Cuppini and Orlando dos Santos Junior for their contributions as co-editors of this book.
Urban geography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Economic development. --- Latin America—Economic conditions. --- Latin America—History. --- Latin America—Politics and government. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Regional Development. --- Latin American and Caribbean Economics. --- Latin American History. --- Latin American Politics. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Geography --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Economic conditions --- History. --- Regionalism. --- Latin America --- America --- Urban Sociology. --- Latin American/Caribbean Economics. --- American Politics. --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government.
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'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 process of political resistance and affirmation of difference.
Marginality, Social --- Citizenship --- Urban poor --- Squatter settlements --- Slums --- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Social conditions. --- Informal settlements (Squatter settlements) --- Irregular settlements --- Settlements, Spontaneous --- Settlements, Squatter --- Shack towns --- Shanty towns --- Shantytowns --- Spontaneous settlements --- Uncontrolled settlements --- Cities and towns --- City dwellers --- Poor --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Law and legislation --- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Rio-de-Zhaneĭro (Brazil) --- Riyo de Zshaneyro (Brazil) --- Río de Xaneiro (Brazil) --- Prefeitura do Rio (Brazil) --- Rio de Žaneiro (Brazil) --- Rio (Brazil) --- Município do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) --- Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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