No Right to Share the City: Being Homeless in Rio de Janeiro during the FIFA World Cup

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Kassens-Noor ◽  
Joshua Ladd
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
New Codes ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The City

To stage a successful mega-event, hosts believe they must present their city as safe and clean. Thus, policy-makers create and enforce spatial rules to hide the homeless from public view. Spatial conflicts peak when the homeless use public places selected for mega-event staging. We analyze these space conflicts from the perspective of the homeless before and during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. We propose a framework of clean streets policies that are regularly used based on a spectrum of high- to low-conflict zones. Furthermore, we contribute to current knowledge suggesting there are invisible spatial barriers in no-conflict zones that violently enable new codes of behaviors for and among the homeless.

The Impact of Atmosphere in the City on Subjective Well-Being of Rio de Janeiro Residents During (vs. Before) the 2014 FIFA World Cup

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 605-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Schlegel ◽  
Rebecca Pfitzner ◽  
Joerg Koenigstorfer
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Path Modeling ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This study looks at the hosting of the 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup in Rio de Janeiro and, based on research drawing on environmental psychology and studies of liminality, hypothesizes that the perceived celebrative atmosphere in the city increases subjective well-being of host city residents (cariocas). Data were collected via in-person intercept surveys from 221 and 218 cariocas before and during the event, respectively. There was an increase in subjective well-being from before the event to during the event. The results of two-group path modeling revealed further that there was a positive impact of the perceived celebrative atmosphere in the host city on residents’ subjective well-being during the event; the effect was weaker (though still positive) for the time period when the event was not being hosted. Initiatives may build upon the atmospheric elements in a city to increase subjective well-being of residents, particularly in the context of event hosting.

The Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro 2007: Consequences of a sport mega-event on a BRIC country

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Curi ◽  
Jorge Knijnik ◽  
Gilmar Mascarenhas
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Poor People ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Major Question ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Social Confrontation ◽  
The City

Sport mega-events were very important for Brazil in 2007. The 15th Pan American Games took place in Rio de Janeiro. It was the largest international tournament held in Brazil since the 1950 World Cup and the 1963 Pan American Games. The latter were held in São Paulo. In 2007, 5000 athletes and 60,000 tourists were expected from the 42 participating countries. Despite being a developing country, Brazil does have a sizable middle class, but in Rio de Janeiro there are also lots of favelas (slums), where millions of poor people live. Despite vast differences in wealth, power and social status, these socially and culturally distinct groups nonetheless utilize common public spaces. We see this social confrontation as a major question for the analyses of sport mega-events and we would like to demonstrate its consequences on a local level . This social tension was such that the Organizing Committee actually constructed a ‘big wall’ around the stadiums which turned them into islands of excellence to be shown on television, thus hiding the unsightly parts of the city, that is, poor neighborhoods and favelas. This wall could be seen as the BRIC-way of organizing mega-events.

scholarly journals Respiratory Hospitalizations and Their Relationship with Air Pollution Sources in the Period of FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4716
Author(s):  
Élida Campos ◽  
Carlos Alexandre R. Pereira ◽  
Carmen Freire ◽  
Ilce F. da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Pollution Sources ◽  
Traffic Density ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Road Work ◽  
The City

Background: From 2010 onwards, the city of Rio de Janeiro has undergone changes related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, potentially affecting the respiratory health of inhabitants. Thus, the spatial distribution of respiratory hospitalizations (2008–2017) and the relationship between this outcome and potential air pollution sources in the city of Rio de Janeiro (2013–2017) were evaluated. Methods: An ecological study was performed using the Bayesian model with multivariate Poisson regression for the period of the sporting events (2013–2017). The outcome was the ratio of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases by the population at risk. Data analysis was performed in the total population and by sex and age group. The air pollution-related variables included industrial districts, traffic density, tunnel portals, a seaport, airports, and construction/road work. Results: All explanatory variables, except tunnel portals, were associated with an increase in the outcome. Construction/road work showed a greater magnitude of association than the other pollution-related variables. Airports were associated with an increased hospitalization ratio among the ≥60 year-old group (mean = 2.46, 95% credible intervals = 1.35–4.46). Conclusion: This study allows for a better understanding of the geographical distribution of respiratory problems in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Present results may contribute to improved healthcare planning and raise hypotheses concerning exposure to air pollution and respiratory hospitalizations.

scholarly journals The Permeable Olympic Fortress

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-127
Author(s):  
Dennis Pauschinger
Keyword(s):  
Public Security ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The City

This article reconsiders sport mega-event security in the context of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The article essentially argues that the mega-event organizers used a security spectacle to camouflage Rio’s politics of death in the many favelas and peripheral neighborhoods. Conceptually, this contribution centralizes different notions of spectacle and camouflage and situates both in the history of violent and racial policing of the poor in Brazil. Empirically, the piece explores, across three sections, how (1) the city was transformed into a spectacular fortress by adapting standardized mega-event security measures to the specific public security conditions in Rio; (2) the Olympic fortress was nonetheless selectively porous and permeable; and (3) the spectacle served to camouflage the other wise deadly police deployments of socio-spatial patterns along lines of class and racial inequalities.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
Margit Ystanes ◽  
Tomas Salem
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Special Section ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
State Security ◽  
Black Life ◽  
The City

For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities used the megaevents to create a state of exception that legitimized a broad range of state security interventions across the city. While Brazilian authorities presented the events as an opportunity to create a modern, dynamic, and socially inclusive city, this special section argues that the security interventions implemented in Rio during the years of Olympic exceptionalism intensified racialized and gendered inequalities and reproduced historical patterns of necropolitical governance that has sought to render black life in Brazil impossible.

Negotiating “New” Narratives

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Bailey ◽  
Robert Oliver ◽  
Christopher Gaffney ◽  
Korine Kolivras
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Global Event ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mega Event

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential and dilemmas of utilizing mega-events to advance an urban agenda, less understood is the role that media play in the construction of the “media geography” of mega-events. This research examines the collective narratives crafted by five Western international news outlets that emerged in the lead up to Brazil’s 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. Incorporating interviews with international and new media journalists from a number of organizations, we illustrate the difficulty that foreign journalists faced in their attempts to represent the circumstances of “two Brazils”—one that was hosting a global event and another that is mired in structural injustice. We also highlight the role new media played in shifting the representative frame as Rio de Janeiro prepared for the tournament.

Social impacts, prons and cons of hosting mega sporting events, focusing on a global south city: Rio de Janeiro

TERRITORIO ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Giuliana Costa
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Geographical Structure ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Complex Events ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
The City ◽  
Critical Aspects

The organisation and hosting of major events, whether cultural, political, sports, economic or social, forms part of a broader strategy adopted by cities to compete in the global arena and to attract capital and investments and to boost tourism and at the same time to address their economic and social problems. This paper reviews the sociological, economic and planning literature in order to discuss to what extent these complex events represent an opportunity to stimulate the economies of cities and to transform their socio-economic and geographical structure. It does this by analysing the most critical aspects of the changes and redevelopment carried out in Rio de Janeiro to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. The analysis focuses on the negative social and economic effects which these events are already having on the city.

DYNAMICS OF CONSTRUCTION OF BUSINESS CENTERS IN SAMARA CITY MIDDLE AREA

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Aleksei A. KAIASOV
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Middle Zone ◽  
Social Business ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Business Function ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
The City

In this article1 the author views the periods of formation of business function in Samara, features of the development in each historical period and emergence of new types of buildings - business centers. The article deals the middle area of the city as the most promising for the formation of Samara city business functions. The middle area of the city concentrates the various functions - commercial, administrative, social, business, hotel and has great potential for future development. In connection with the beginning of the implementation of major federal projects: transport hub of Kurumoch airport, the design of the technopark and Сentral highway, preparations for the FIFA World Cup 2018, the role of the middle zone of the urban environment structure increases.

scholarly journals Global Events and Architectural and Urban Renovation of the City (on the Example of the Preparation of Volgograd for the FIFA World Cup-2018)

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Antyufeev
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Global Event ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Urban Renovation ◽  
Global Events ◽  
The City

The article highlights the basic urban problems arising in cities, hosting major world events during the latest decade. Major sports events become a good accelerator of urban developments and environmental improvements of the city due to the construction of unique objects. One of the most large-scale world events are sports games. In connection with the fact that the World Football Championship is held in Russia this year, the experience of Russian cities in architectural and town-planning redevelopment is of great interest. The author considers the issues of architectural and urban redevelopment of the city on the example of Volgograd, one of the Russian cities in which the FIFA World Cup 2018 will be held.The author of the article was directly involved in the work of interdisciplinary project team as a part of a regional team. The peculiarities of territorial-spatial placement of major objects of the championship in the linear city are defined. Evaluation of infrastructure renovations allowed the author to identify positive outcomes and negative urban trends that have emerged when infrastructure of a global event invades urban fabric of a megalopolis. Among negative consequences the articles highlights issues related to cultural heritage loss. Particular focus is made on future of championship legacy. Urban renovations are planned which allow to organize effective exploitation of infrastructural objects after the global event took place. In particular, redevelopment of master plan statements along with development and land-use rules will be required taking into account the use of championship legacy.

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