Pacification of Favelas, Mega Events, and the Creation of New Inequalities in the Global South: The Case of Rio de Janeiro

2017 ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Saborio ◽  
Giuliana Costa
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global South ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Inequalities

Playful mobilities in the Global South: A study of Pokémon Go play in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110164
Author(s):  
Adriana de Souza e Silva ◽  
Ragan Glover-Rijkse ◽  
Anne Njathi ◽  
Daniela de Cunto Bueno
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global South ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is the most popular location-based game worldwide. As a location-based game, Pokémon Go’s gameplay is connected to networked urban mobility. However, urban mobility differs significantly around the world. Large metropoles in South America and Africa, for example, experience ingrained social, cultural, and economic inequalities. With this in mind, we interviewed Pokémon Go players in two Global South cities, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Nairobi (Kenya), to understand how players navigate urban spaces not only based on gameplay but with broader concerns for safety. Our findings reveal that players negotiate their urban mobilities based on perceptions of risk and safety, choosing how to move around and avoiding areas known for violence and theft. These findings are relevant for understanding the social and political aspects of networked urban spaces as well as for investigating games as venues through which we can understand ordinary life, racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities.

If things go South: The renewed policy of sport mega events allocation and its implications for future research

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022098134
Author(s):  
Billy Graeff ◽  
Jorge Knijnik
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global North ◽  
Analytical Tools

The past few decades have seen an increase of sport mega events (SMEs) held outside the Global North. This tendency has been accompanied by a growing public expenditure in these events. This paper employs selected Global South SMEs to discuss this trend. By critically analysing public documents, biddings and reports, the study traces comparisons between 21st-century Global South and Global North SMEs expenditures, in the revenue of franchise owners (FIFA and the International Olympic Committee), in construction costs within the budgets and in the costs related to security. This comprehensive and intertwined investigation shows the need for new analytical tools – such as the Renewed Policy of Sport Mega Events Allocation, a concept developed here - to better capture the central questions posed by the challenges of ‘SMEs going South’.

scholarly journals The Pacification of the Favelas: Mega Events, Global Competitiveness, and the Neutralization of Marginality

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Saborio
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The City ◽  
Article Analyse ◽  
Do So

<p>Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host two major sporting events in the coming years: the 2014 FIFA World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Local authorities are promoting these mega events as an opportunity to increase the global competitiveness of the city. But in order to attract private capital from the global economy it is not enough for Rio to showcase the city as capable of organizing and implementing these events. Rather, the authorities must also demonstrate that what has been considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world can now become a safe place for business. To do so, what has been promoted as a new model of &lsquo;community policing&rsquo; the UPP (Pacifying Police Units) has been implemented since 2008 in 107 favelas. The majority of the favelas involved in the program are situated around the sites where these mega events will take place and around other wealthy areas of the city. This article analyses the relation between mega events, global competitiveness and the neutralization of local marginality.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rio de Janeiro se pr&eacute;pare &agrave; accueillir les plus grands &eacute;v&eacute;nement sportifs des prochaines ann&eacute;es: la coupe du monde de football en 2014 et les jeux olympiques en 2016. Les autorit&eacute;s locales valorisent ces &eacute;v&eacute;nements mondiaux comme autant d&rsquo;opportunit&eacute;s pour augmenter la comp&eacute;titivit&eacute; de la ville.&nbsp; Cependant, il n&rsquo;est pas suffisant pour attirer les capitaux priv&eacute;s de l&rsquo;&eacute;conomie mondiale que Rio soit valoris&eacute;e comme une ville capable d&rsquo;organiser et de g&eacute;rer ces &eacute;v&eacute;nements. Les autorit&eacute;s doivent aussi d&eacute;montrer que, ce qui auparavant &eacute;tait consid&eacute;r&eacute; comme une des plus dangereuses villes du monde, peut maintenant devenir un endroit s&ucirc;r pour les entreprises. Dans ce but, l&rsquo; UPP (Pacifying Police Units) a &eacute;t&eacute; mis en place en 2008 dans 107 favelas et est d&eacute;crit comme le nouveau mod&egrave;le de la police communitarian. La plupart des favelas int&eacute;gr&eacute;es dans le programme sont situ&eacute;es autour des lieux qui accueilleront les &eacute;v&eacute;nements et dans d&rsquo;autres endroits confortables de la ville. Pour cette raisons, cette article analyse les relations entre les &eacute;v&eacute;nements mondiaux, la comp&eacute;titivit&eacute; mondiale et la neutralisation de la marginalit&eacute; locale.</p>

scholarly journals RELAÇÕES LUSO-BRASILEIRAS: DA RECENTE MASSA CRÍTICA A UM OPORTUNO PROJETO DE AÇÃO

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda Santos
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Creation

Partindo da constatação de que as comemorações dos “500 anos” desencadearam grande apetência para o revisitar e o refletir sobre o complexo diálogo luso-brasileiro, o texto noticia uma ação conjunta nesse sentido, idealizada por professores universitários e sediada no Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro: a criação do Pólo de Pesquisa sobre Relações Luso-Brasileiras (PPRLB), em abril de 2001. Abstract After the celebrations of the 500 years of Brazil, one finds out that the celebrations unchained great appetency to think about the complex Luso-Brazilian dialog. This article gives word about a combined acction thought by university professors and grounded in the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro: the creation of the Pólo de Pesquisa sobre Relações Luso-Brasileiras (PPRLB), in April, 2001.

scholarly journals The birthing house as a place for birth: contextualizing the Rio de Janeiro birthing house

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1161-1169
Author(s):  
Ilana Löwy
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Abstract Within the context of the creation of birthing houses around the world and different models of care for childbirth, the author proposes an analysis that contributes to the discussion about the place for birth, especially in urban Brazil.

Mega-events, legacies and impacts: notes on 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabricio Leal de Oliveira ◽  
Carlos B. Vainer ◽  
Gilmar Mascarenhas ◽  
Glauco Bienenstein ◽  
Einar Braathen
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Mega Events

scholarly journals Unequal Ideas: Reflections on Designing Politics, an Urban Ideas Competition in Rio de Janeiro

Design Issues ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Adam Kaasa
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Global South ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global North ◽  
Continuous Presence

This article initiates a discussion about the unequal geography of the labor that challenges institutions and processes of public scholarship in design. The comparison between the urban competitions in New York, London, and Rio de Janeiro demonstrates that it was only in the Global South that challenges to the technology of the competition were raised. These challenges were based on issues of power imbalances between institutions both within and between the Global North and Global South, and around questions of the social inequalities embedded in the structures of the competition itself (the submissions, the jury, the exhibition). Through this analysis, the article suggests that the burden of labor for decolonizing rests on those already oppressed by systems embedded in the continuous presence of colonialism.

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