Mega Sporting Events, Politics & Security in Brazil & Scotland in 2014
The World Cup in Brazil has brought unprecedented criticism of the ways in which sporting mega-events are organized and scrutiny over who actually benefits. Though distinct [...]
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Popular Committee Launches Third Human Rights Violations Dossier
The Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpíadas do Rio de Janeiro (Rio Popular Committee on the World Cup and Olympics), just published its third Mega-Events and Human Rights [...]
The Tragedy of the Maracanã Stadium
As a symbolic space in Rio de Janeiro, there is little to compare to the Maracanã stadium. Its history and position in the urban imagination is tightly linked to the [...]
Rio’s BRT System: A Tool for Legacy or Fragmentation?
In a country that has seen the number of cars more than double in the last decade, and in what is now Brazil’s most congested city, Rio de Janeiro’s four [...]
World Cup Violations: What About Communication Rights?
For the original by Daniel Fonsêca in Portuguese on Carta Capital’s Intervozes blog click here. Stereotyped representations, violation of communication rights and the [...]