This Week
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On February 24, 2016, the City of Rio demolished Heloisa Helena Costa Berto’s home, one of the last houses to be destroyed in Vila Autódromo next to the Olympic Park. Over one year later, [...] -
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From the Archives: 2010-2017
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PoliciesShaky Foundations: Brazil’s Citizen Security Paradigm
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#EvictionsWatchMap Shows Hundreds of Vila Autódromo Residents Want to Remain
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#UPPWatchAs World Cup Ends, UPP Stalled & Army Occupation Continues in Maré
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#Rio2016Pinheirinho, Cracolândia and USP: Instead of Policy, Police!
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#GentrificationWatchSanta Marta Protests: Real Estate and Commodity Prices, Evictions and Jeep Tours
Getting Context on Rio
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Clique aqui para Português Forty-three students, favela residents, researchers and other interested people participated in the course “Living Stories – The history of resistance in Rio’s favelas,” [...] -
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Recent Events
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Clique aqui para Português The XXI Pontifical Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio) Environment Week took place last week from June 6-10, 2017, which is organized by the university’s Interdisciplinary Nucleus for [...] -
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Urban Violence in Rio
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Clique aqui para Português Maré means ‘the tide.’ The name comes from when the favela community was first started in a wetland area with many of the houses built on stilts to withstand the waters. In [...] -
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Community Solutions
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Clique aqui para Português A majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers. As we have distanced ourselves from rural life, many people have lost direct contact with agriculture and the process of [...] -
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Series: Social Constructions
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Clique aqui para Português This is the fourth article in a four-part series on the social constructions of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down negative stereotypes. The first two articles of [...] -
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Perspectives from Favela Authors
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Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Rebeca Brandão in Portuguese published by Agulha on May 24 click here. Today, I would certainly prefer to write about the punks from Mesquita and the [...] -
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