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.

scholarly journals The “Table of mineral classification” by Oscar Nerval de Gouvêa: mineralogy and medicine in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-508
Author(s):  
Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract Oscar Nerval de Gouvêa was a scientist and teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose work spanned engineering, medicine, the social sciences, and law. This paper presents and discusses a manuscript entitled “Table of mineral classification,” which he appended to his dissertation Da receptividade mórbida , presented to the Faculty of Medicine in 1889. The foundations and features of the table provide a focus for understanding nineteenth-century mineralogy and its connections in Brazil at that time through this scientist. This text was Gouvêa’s contribution to the various mineral classification systems which have emerged from different parts of the world.

scholarly journals The colonial matrix of power: Image ontology and the question of blackness

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Itumeleng D. Mothoagae
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Black People ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The question of blackness has always featured the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality and class. Blackness as an ontological speciality has been engaged from both the social and epistemic locations of the damnés (in Fanonian terms). It has thus sought to respond to the performance of power within the world order that is structured within the colonial matrix of power, which has ontologically, epistemologically, spatially and existentially rendered blackness accessible to whiteness, while whiteness remains inaccessible to blackness. The article locates the question of blackness from the perspective of the Global South in the context of South Africa. Though there are elements of progress in terms of the conditions of certain Black people, it would be short-sighted to argue that such conditions in themselves indicate that the struggles of blackness are over. The essay seeks to address a critique by Anderson (1995) against Black theology in the context of the United States of America (US). The argument is that the question of blackness cannot and should not be provincialised. To understand how the colonial matrix of power is performed, it should start with the local and be linked with the global to engage critically the colonial matrix of power that is performed within a system of coloniality. Decoloniality is employed in this article as an analytical tool.Contribution: The article contributes to the discourse on blackness within Black theology scholarship. It aims to contribute to the continual debates on the excavating and levelling of the epistemological voices that have been suppressed through colonial epistemological universalisation of knowledge from the perspective of the damnés.

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.

Pokémon Go as an HRG: Mobility, sociability, and surveillance in hybrid spaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana de Souza e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
First Time ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

In July 2016, Niantic Labs released the hybrid/augmented reality game Pokémon Go. Due to the game’s sudden enormous success, many mobile phone users all over the world could experience for the first time playing a hybrid reality game. Hybrid reality games, however, are not new. For at least 15 years, researchers and artists experiment with the affordances of location-based mobile technology to create playful experiences that take place across physical and digital (i.e., hybrid) spaces. Blast Theory’s Can You See Me Now?, developed in 2001, is one of the first examples. Yet for a long time, these games remained in the domain of art and research, and had therefore a very limited player community. Previous research has identified three design characteristics of hybrid reality games: mobility, sociability, and spatiality; and three main aspects to analyze these games: the connection between play and ordinary life, the relevance of the play community, and surveillance. With hybrid reality games’ commercialization and popularity, some of the issues that have been at the core of these games for over a decade will remain the same, while other aspects will change. This paper uses Pokémon Go as an example of a hybrid/augmented reality game to explore the main social and spatial issues that arise when these games become mainstream, including mobility, sociability, spatiality, and surveillance.

scholarly journals "A Urca é o paraíso dos cegos": mobilidade urbana, acesso à cidade e territorialização

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Von der Weid
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Scenes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

A cidade do Rio de Janeiro, com quase 12 milhões de habitantes na região metropolitana, é a segunda maior aglomeração urbana do Brasil. O artigo propõe uma reflexão a respeito das relações sociais em espaços públicos estabelecidas nessa cidade entre pessoas cegas e outras pessoas que circulam por ruas de bairros como Centro, Copacabana ou o bairro da Urca. Ao abordar os deslocamentos e as relações sociais estabelecidas ao longo do percurso, procura-se traçar a impressão espacial e urbana de pessoas cegas e o fluxo dos seus itinerários. Como se constroem os trajetos e a ocupação espacial da cidade por pessoas cegas? Qual o uso que fazem dos transportes públicos? Quais são os cenários eleitos, os bairros frequentados e as dificuldades encontradas no caminho? Ao questionar as representações que pessoas cegas fazem dos cenários urbanos, os fatores que promovem e os fatores que restringem sua mobilidade, procura-se também desestabilizar uma compreensão do espaço urbano centrada no olhar. Busca-se incorporar na descrição dos lugares os seus aspectos vividos, os elementos, as materialidades e os sinais não-visuais que possibilitam sua apreensão.Palavras-chave: Cegueira. Corpo. Deslocamento. Cidade. Teritorialização."Urca is the paradise of the blind": urban mobility, acess to the city and territoryAbstractThe city of Rio de Janeiro, with nearly 12 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area, is the second largest urban agglomeration in Brazil. This paper proposes a reflection on the social relations in public spaces established in that city between blind people and other people moving through the streets of neighborhoods like the city center, Copacabana or Urca. Addressing the displacements and the social relations established along the route, the article seeks to trace the urban and spatial impressions of blind people and the flow of their itineraries. How the blinds build their paths and how they spatially occupy the city? What is their use of public transport? What are the elected scenarios, frequented neighborhoods and the difficulties they find in their way? By questioning the representations of urban scenes by blind people, the factors that promote and factors that restrict their mobility, we also seeks to destabilize an understanding of urban space focused on vision. We try to incorporate in the description of places their experienced aspects and the elements, materiality and non-visual signals that enable their apprehension.Keywords: Blindness. Body. Displacement. City. Territory. 

1. Brazil hosts the Olympic Games

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Anthony W. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Opening Ceremony ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
First Time ◽  
National Experience ◽  
The Olympic Games

‘Brazil hosts the Olympic Games’ examines the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on 5 August 2016. This was the first time the games took place in South America. Watched live by hundreds of millions of people around the world, the four-hour ceremony reveals something about Brazil and its national experience. It provides insights into what makes Brazilians proud to be Brazilian, as well as anxieties behind those sources of pride. The themes concern the importance of nature and its preservation; the importance of the future in Brazilians’ view of the world; Brazil’s alleged vocation for peaceful inclusion; and the informality of the Brazilian way of getting things done.

The Explosion of Crime in the Global South

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Samuel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global South ◽  
World Population ◽  
Gang Violence ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
Child Prostitution ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Police Forces

This chapter studies the explosion of violent crime in the Global South. It begins by looking at statistics on global homicidal rates provided by the World Population Review. Kidnappings are an even greater concern than homicide and it is a particularly severe problem in Mexico. Brazil also has a long history of kidnapping and criminal gangs have been out of control in the country. In 2002, Rio de Janeiro had been shut down by a particularly flashy gang, the Comando Vermelho (Red Command), somewhat on a whim by their leader. Other acts of gang violence have been more purposive. That same year, the army and elite police forces had invaded two slum neighborhoods looking for the killer of Tim Lopes, a reporter for TV Globo who had been surreptitiously filming a gang party in the slums while working on a story about child prostitution. The gang members caught him in the act, gave him a summary trial, and then tortured him to death. Later on, some people would be arrested for the Tim Lopes murder, but the gangs that committed the crime were able to continue their activities without interruption.

Alltägliche Lebenswirklichkeit und ontologische Theorie

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Moritz von Kalckreuth
Keyword(s):  
Social Ontology ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Critical Ontology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Nicolai Hartmann

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to discuss the relation between our experience in everyday life and ontological reflection. While many accounts in contemporary ontology still defend the idea that the world consists only of material objects, some new views on everyday metaphysics or social ontology which try to articulate the specific properties of the objects used and found in ordinary life have been established during the last years. In the critical ontology of Nicolai Hartmann, the social and cultural dimension of our life is situated in the sphere of spiritual being [Geistiges Sein]. By investigating the methodical relation of phenomenology and critical ontology as well as specific entities (objective spirit, cultural objects), it is established that Hartmann offers a wide and methodologically reflected view which could be able to satisfy the practical significance of these entities.

scholarly journals COVID-19 NA AMAZÔNIA LEGAL: a centralidade do trabalho e a disseminação em Araguaína-TO

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (20) ◽  
pp. 202131
Author(s):  
Fabyanne Oliveira Montelo Ribeiro ◽  
Thelma Pontes Borges ◽  
Miguel Pacífico Filho
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Socioeconomic Profile ◽  
The City

COVID-19 IN THE LEGAL AMAZON: the centrality of the work and its dissemination in Araguaína-TOCOVID-19 EN LA AMAZONIA LEGAL: la centralidad del trabajo y su difusión en Araguaína-TORESUMOEm 2020, o mundo foi assolado pela COVID-19, fazendo com que países se organizassem para frear a contaminação e tratar os infectados. No Brasil, o coronavírus também se espalhou, atingindo todas as regiões. Araguaína, por ser um polo de atração econômica na Amazônia Legal, foi a primeira cidade além da capital do Tocantins, Palmas, a notificar casos. Considerando a centralidade que a atividade laboral tem no tecido social, verificamos como a doença se comportou entre os trabalhadores que, em razão de suas atividades, estão mais expostos ao contágio. Para tanto, identificamos perfil socioeconômico a partir de dados de notificação de agravo ao Centro de Referência de Saúde do Trabalhador. Como resultados gerais, temos a notificação de 522 registros, em sua maioria referentes a mulheres, pardas e com até o ensino médio. A doença afetou mais profissionais menos qualificados e com menor escolaridade. Concluímos que o controle da pandemia passa por uma atenção maior às medidas de proteção aos trabalhadores, uma vez que estão expostos à mobilidade urbana e ao próprio ambiente laboral.Palavras-chave: COVID-19; Trabalho; Araguaína.ABSTRACT In 2020, the world was devastated by COVID-19, causing countries to organize themselves to curb contamination and treat the infected; in Brazil, the coronavirus has also spread to all regions. The city of Araguaína, being a pole of economic attraction in the Legal Amazon, was the first city besides the capital of Tocantins, Palmas, to notify cases. Considering the centrality that work has in the social fabric, we check how the disease behaved among workers, who, due to their activities, are more exposed to contagion; and we identified socioeconomic profile from data on notification of injury to CEREST. As general results we have the notification of 522 records, mostly referring to women, mixed race and with up to high school. The disease affected more less qualified and less educated professionals. We conclude that the control of the pandemic requires greater attention to measures to protect workers, since they are exposed to urban mobility and the working environment itself.Keywords: COVID-19; Work; Araguaína.RESUMENEn 2020, el mundo fue devastado por COVID-19, lo que provocó que los países se organizaran para frenar la contaminación y tratar a los infectados; en Brasil, el coronavirus también se ha extendido a todas las regiones. La ciudad de Araguaína, al ser un polo de atracción económica en la Amazonía Legal, fue la primera ciudad además de la capital de Tocantins, Palmas, en notificar casos. Considerando la centralidad que tiene el trabajo en el tejido social, comprobamos cómo se comportó la enfermedad entre los trabajadores, quienes por sus actividades están más expuestos al contagio; e identificamos el perfil socioeconómico a partir de los datos sobre la notificación de lesiones al CEREST. Como resultados generales tenemos la notificación de 522 registros, mayoritariamente referidos a mujeres, mestizos y con hasta bachillerato. La enfermedad afectó a profesionales más menos calificados y menos educados. Concluimos que el control de la pandemia requiere una mayor atención a las medidas de protección de los trabajadores, ya que están expuestos a la movilidad urbana y al propio entorno laboral.Palabras clave: COVID-19; Trabajo; Araguaína.

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

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