Putting gender on the agenda in Rio de Janeiro

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Orton ◽  
Liana De Andrade Biar
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Negotiation Of Meaning ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Global North ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to the investigation of language and gendered performances in the workplace, particularly in the Global North. However, as yet few studies have examined such dynamics in the context of contemporary social movements. Drawing on (auto)ethnographic observations and audio recordings, this article takes a critical look at the negotiation of meaning in public debates held by bicycle advocates in Rio de Janeiro. The gendered performances which arise from small stories suggest that female participants find themselves in a ‘double bind’ as they seek to raise awareness of the gendered violence they experience whilst simultaneously adhering to the discursive norms of the movement. Such performances may be understood as characteristic of a postfeminist sensibility in which everyday violence is mitigated in order to project a courageous, resilient subject undeterred by such threats.

scholarly journals Da ação coletiva ao crime: repertórios de movimentos sociais e facções prisionais | From collective action to crime: repertoires of social movements and prison factions

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Modus Operandi

O trabalho discute a organização prisional em facções a partir de paralelos com ações coletivas, com teorias dos movimentos sociais para lançar luz às práticas das facções prisionais. Dessa forma, baseado em um trabalho de inspiração etnográfica em prisões masculinas e femininas no Rio de Janeiro, Manaus e Fortaleza, abordaremos convergências e diferenças entre o modus operandi das facções prisionais do país, Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Comando Vermelho (CV), Facção do Norte (FDN) e Guardiões do Estado (GDE) e movimentos sociais. Desde 2006, aumentaram significativamente as rebeliões, queima de veículos e transferência de presos, como instrumentos de barganha, aqui entendidas como repertórios. A pesquisa aponta para um funcionamento das facções que, por ser empiricamente orientado, traz elementos inovadores para pensar os limites e as possibilidades das teorias da ação coletiva.

scholarly journals Social movements and environmental health in Rio de Janeiro: contributions for national reflections

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Eduardo Stotz ◽  
Frederico Perez
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Rio De Janeiro

Movimentos sociais são formas de ação coletiva mais ou menos permanentes, pautadas por distintos projetos, orientações e significados, empenhados na luta pela igualdade, liberdade e democratização das relações sociais. No campo da Saúde Ambiental, é destacado o papel desses movimentos na construção de uma agenda política, cuja expressão máxima se traduz na organização da I Conferência Nacional de Saúde Ambiental, em dezembro de 2009, na cidade de Brasília. O presente manuscrito apresenta algumas contribuições para a discussão sobre as relações entre os movimentos sociais e a construção de uma agenda política para o campo da Saúde Ambiental, a partir de uma análise crítica da atuação dos principais grupos envolvidos com o campo no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Através da análise de documentos (relatórios finais, cartas de princípios, documentos síntese, etc.) produzidos em fóruns onde a atuação desses movimentos teve destaque, foi possível observar que a atuação desses movimentos sociais pautou e deu a tônica dos conflitos socioambientais no estado do Rio de Janeiro colocando, de um lado, o Poder Público e as políticas desenvolvimentistas e, de outro, a sociedade e a preocupação com a preservação de recursos naturais e da qualidade do ambiente. Seja no campo, onde se torna cada vez mais urgente a busca por outro tipo de desenvolvimento econômico, ou nas cidades, onde o crescimento desordenado, delimitado por forças motrizes de ordem estritamente econômica, gera diferentes tipos de pressão que alteram o estado do ambiente e colocam um contingente populacional cada vez maior em situação de vulnerabilidade socioambiental, a pauta dos movimentos sociais em torno das questões socioambientais é extensa, e exige uma atenção especial por parte do Poder Público.

scholarly journals Estrangeirismos na cidade: inventando o comum em zonas urbanas fronteiriças / Estrangement in the city: inventing the common in urban fringe zones

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Alice Vignoli Reis ◽  
Mônica Botelho Alvim
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

ResumoNossas cidades sãofortemente marcadas por processos de segregação socioespacial que as dividem em territórios  estrangeiros, cada qual com seu universo cultural próprio. Essesestrangeirismos frequentemente colocam desafios às práticas de extensão universitária, ou outras práticas de pesquisa e trabalho que colocam em contato distintos universos culturais. Apartir da experiência de se sentir estrangeira na Favela da Mangueira, que se deu no âmbito de um projeto de extensão universitária vinculado ao Instituto de Psicologia da UFRJ,pretendemos traçar uma reflexão sobre como delimitam-seessas fronteiras urbanas e sobre as possibilidades de invenção do comum em uma cidade dividida, colocando em diálogo nossas experiências no campo com as elaborações de autores da fenomenologia, filosofia política, história, arte e urbanismo. Buscamos colaborar, desta forma, com aqueles que atuam emprojetos de pesquisa-intervenção, extensão universitária, movimentos sociais, ONGs e outras formas de organização social que trabalhem em zonas fronteiriças dentro da cidade.Palavras-chave: Segregação Urbana; Produção do Comum; Estética; Política; Pesquisa-Intervenção.AbstractOur cities are keenly characterized by processes of socio-spatial segregation which divide them into estranged territories, each with its own cultural universe. Such estrangements areoften challenging to university extension practices, as wellas to other work and research practices which foster contact between different cultural universes. Based on our experience of‘feeling like a foreigner’ in the Favela da Mangueira during a university extension project associated with the Institute of Psychology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, we offer a reflection on how urban partitions arise and how we can invent the common in a divided city. We look to make our experiences in the field conversant with the works of authors from different areas, such as phenomenology, political philosophy, history, art and urbanism. Thus, we seek to collaborate with other researchers who direct research-intervention projects, university extension, social movements, NGOs and other types of social organizations working in urban fringe zones.Keywords: Urban Segregation; Production of the Common; Aesthetics; Politics; Research-Intervention.

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.

The values of global futures

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus S Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Critical Imagination

This article provides concluding reflections for the monograph on Values and Culture by focusing on the role that values can play in the shaping of global futures. It discusses the emerging reconceptualizations of values and culture vis-a-vis accelerated financial flows and neoliberal deregulation, transnational migration, social movements and incipient global publics. It emphasizes that the study of values is not just about social cohesion but also about social transformation. Social reality is never stagnant but always in the making. Sociology should thus not shy away from reflecting on the future but use its critical imagination to inspire and push public debates further.

scholarly journals MONUMENTALIZING MODERN MOBILITY

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Comas
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Landscape Urbanism ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract: The inhabitable viaduct is one of the most intriguing design proposals of Le Corbusier. Scholarly attention has focused upon the curvilinear megastructures designed for Rio de Janeiro and Algiers and their connection to the Ville Radieuse, downplaying the introduction of the inhabitable viaduct in São Paulo, and its connection with earlier proposals for Montevideo and Buenos Aires, the Plan Voisin and Ville Contemporaine, when Le Corbusier himself suggested that all these designs make up a sequence. The inhabitable viaduct has been understood as a reaction to non-European landscape and the airplane view, standing for a new sense of the organic in Le Corbusier’s work. A closer inspection of these designs along with Le Corbusier’s pertinent texts and imagery suggests that his architecture from 1929 onwards changes in degree rather than nature. The genesis of the inhabitable viaduct is seen as part of a sequence of topological transformations, informed by specific but generalizable site conditions and a host of precedents, but also, and primarily, as an alternative in Le Corbusier's controversial quest for monumentalizing the modern metropolis. Resumen: El viaducto habitable es una de las propuestas más intrigantes de Le Corbusier. Los estudiosos han concentrado su atención en las mega-estructuras curvilíneas proyectadas para Río de Janeiro y Argelia y en sus conexiones con la Ville Radieuse, menospreciando la introducción del viaducto habitable en São Paulo, y su conexión con las propuestas anteriores para Montevideo y Buenos Aires, el Plan Voisin y Ville Contemporaine, cuando Le Corbusier mismo sugirió que todos eses proyectos forman una secuencia. El viaducto habitable ha sido entendido como una reacción al paisaje no-europeo y a la vista del avión, indicando un sentido nuevo de lo orgánico en la obra de Le Corbusier. Una inspección mas detenida de eses proyectos a la luz de textos e imágenes pertinentes del arquitecto sugiere que su arquitectura del 1929 en adelante sufre un cambio de énfasis y no de naturaleza. La génesis del viaducto habitable se ve aquí como parte de una secuencia de transformaciones topológica, que son informadas tanto por condiciones de situación a la vez específicas y susceptible de generalización cuanto por un conjunto de precedentes, pero también, y primariamente, como una alternativa en la búsqueda controvertida de Le Corbusier por monumentalizar la metrópolis moderna.  Keywords: Inhabitable viaduct/ South America/ Algiers/ Monumentality/ Landscape/ Urbanism. Palabras clave: Viaducto habitable/ Suramerica/ Argelia/ Monumentalidad/ Paisaje/ Urbanismo. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.949 

scholarly journals Espaços públicos como lugares da política/Public spaces as spaces of politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Paulo Cesar Da Costa Gomes ◽  
Letícia Parente Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City

RESUMOA ativação política dos espaços públicos é comumente associada à sua mobilização extraordinária por grandes movimentos sociais. Ao seu uso cotidiano e ordinário, ao contrário, raramente é atribuído um significado político forte. A partir de uma discussão sobre a estratégia de manifestação política conhecida como “ocupação”, e de exemplos oriundos de pesquisas realizadas em espaços públicos da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, este artigo propõe uma nova perspectiva sobre esta oposição, ainda dominante na bibliografia.Palavras-chave: espaço público; ocupação; sociabilidade. ABSTRACTThe political activation of public spaces is commonly associated with their extraordinary mobilization by large social movements. On the contrary, a strong political significance is rarely attributed to the everyday and ordinary use of these spaces. Based on a discussion about the strategy of political manifestation known as “occupation” and presenting examples from research carried out in public spaces in the city of Rio de Janeiro, this article proposes a new approach to this opposition, still dominant in academic literature.Keywords: public space; occupy; sociability.

Affect as narrative action in the Global South

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict J. L. Rowlett
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Global South ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Global North ◽  
Empirical Significance ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Small Stories

Abstract This paper focuses on the performance of small stories from two Cambodian men interviewed by the researcher about the relationships they form with men from the Global North. The analysis attends to the empirical significance of these performances by focusing on the mobilization of affect as an interactional linguistic and narrative resource that foregrounds social action in this context. In this way, these small stories reveal how these men may challenge and reshape dominant social discourses at this sexualised North/South interface. Bringing to the field of narrative inquiry approaches from queer linguistics, and Southern perspectives, this paper is therefore tasked with exploring what the field may potentially gain from these areas, especially regarding the theoretical and methodological possibilities of a North/South dialogue in the production of knowledge.

Can literary events use Co-Creation to challenge stigmatisation?

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Christina Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Arts Festivals ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

This chapter takes a comparative approach to two initiatives developed by artists and cultural promoters from the Global North and South, to challenge clichés attached to French banlieues and Brazilian favelas as places devoid of the production and consumption of literary texts. The ‘Dictée des Cités’, a spelling competition promoted since 2013 in French banlieues by writer Rachid Santaki, and the ‘Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery’ (FLUP) curated in Rio de Janeiro since 2012 by writers Julio Ludemir and Écio Salles, are analysed through the lens of Co-Creation as examples of artist-driven initiatives to encourage large local audiences’ engagement with literary texts, transform literary institutions and canons and challenge stereotypes associated with urban peripheries. While the chapter seeks to evaluate the potential of large-scale literary events to change the perception of disadvantaged urban areas, it also explores differences between the Global North and South. The chapter ends with the conclusion that socially engaged arts festivals and Co-Creation events may promote similar aims, they however differ in their scale, approaches to knowledge production as well as in their strategies promoting engagement with creative methods.

Why international space collaborations should be anticolonial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Marino ◽  
Gabriella Ghermandi
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
International Space ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Space Projects ◽  
Global North ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Space Infrastructure ◽  
Competing Priorities ◽  
Scholarly Attention

<p>This paper synthesises and presents evidence from existing literature on how space projects and infrastructures built in the Global South have had – often unintended – negative impacts on local and Indigenous communities (Redfield 2000). The example of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa demonstrates that there are often competing priorities at play within space projects and that equitable practices must be at the heart of all space initiatives that aim to foster inclusive and just outcomes (Walker, Chinigo’ 2019). While dispossession due to space infrastructure has received recent scholarly attention, the ways in which the methods of scientific research reframe relationships and the sites of space research often remain invisible. This paper touches upon three areas where more equitable practices are needed to address historically crystallised asymmetries of power: 1) partnerships; 2) fieldwork; 3) approaches to science. I use Harding’s decolonial philosophies of science (2017) to instigate a dialogue with other disciplines and propose a change of practice in science. Fieldwork in analogue environments in Africa is used as an example of fostering collaborations and scientific endeavours that are actively anticolonial and combat the ways in which the Global North can be extractive in its approach to space projects on our planet. Can ethical frameworks be useful tools to appropriately consider the potential impacts of space projects and collaborations on local communities?</p> <p> </p>

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