scholarly journals Social Tourism 'In Practice': The Tourist Experience of Homeless People in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1017-1038
Author(s):  
Jordania de Oliveira Eugenio ◽  
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Bernardo Lazary Cheibub ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Extension Program

When they are disregarded as citizens, people on the street seem to be invisible with regard to their rights, while in their daily lives their presence causes discomfort, generating the inverse of invisibility. This work, when undertaking tourism as a social right, describes how the tourist experiences of a group of homeless people - assisted by a public social assistance agency, in partnership with a UFF extension program - took place, which they visited tourist attractions in the metropolitan region of Rio. In addition to contact with authors / research that dealt with the reality of people living on the streets, the theoretical basis intertwined the themes of the Right to Leisure and the City, the Tourist Experience and Social Tourism. The analyzes carried out from ethnographic bases, including participant observation and interviews with a semi-structured script, indicated that tourist experiences seem to have aroused affective memories that work for this group as a means of resistance to the condition in which they find themselves. Even so, some experiences were crossed by serious situations of prejudice and discrimination, directed by conventional visitors to the group.

TOURISM MOBILITY AT THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES RIO 2016

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Cabral ◽  
Carolin Lusby ◽  
Ricardo Uvinha
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Sports Tourism as a segment is growing exponentially in Brazil. The sports mega-events that occurred in the period from 2007 to 2016 helped strengthen this sector significantly. This article examined tourism mobility during the Summer Olympic Games Rio 2016, hosted by the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This study expands the understanding of the relationship between tourism and city infrastructure, therefore being relevant to academics, professionals of the area and to the whole society due to its multidisciplinary field. The existence of a relationship between means of transportation and the Olympic regions as well as tourist attractions for a possible legacy was observed. Data were collected from official sources, field research and through participant-observation and semi structured interviews. Data were coded and analyzed. The results indicate that the city was overall successful in its execution of sufficient mobility. New means of transportation were added and others updated. BRT's (Bus Rapid Transit) were the main use of mass transport to Olympic sites. However, a lack of public transport access was observed for the touristic sites.

scholarly journals Towards a genuinely humanizing smart urbanism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Smart Urbanism

This paper considers, following David Harvey (1973), how to produce a genuinely humanizing smart urbanism. It does so through utilising a future-orientated lens to sketch out the kinds of work required to reimagine, reframe and remake smart cities. I argue that, on the one hand, there is a need to produce an alternative ‘future present’ that shifts the anticipatory logics of smart cities to that of addressing persistent inequalities, prejudice, and discrimination, and is rooted in notions of fairness, equity, ethics and democracy. On the other hand, there is a need to disrupt the ‘present future’ of neoliberal smart urbanism, moving beyond minimal politics to enact sustained strategic, public-led interventions designed to create more-inclusive smart city initiatives. Both tactics require producing a deeply normative vision for smart cities that is rooted in ideas of citizenship, social justice, the public good, and the right to the city that needs to be developed in conjunction with citizens.

African Pentecostal Migrants in China: Marginalization and the Alternative Geography of a Mission Theology

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Østbø Haugen
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Mission Theology ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Church

Abstract:The city of Guangzhou, China, hosts a diverse and growing population of foreign Christians. The religious needs of investors and professionals have been accommodated through government approval of a nondenominational church for foreigners. By contrast, African Pentecostal churches operate out of anonymous buildings under informal and fragile agreements with law-enforcement officers. The marginality of the churches is mirrored by the daily lives of the church-goers: Many are undocumented immigrants who restrain their movements to avoid police interception. In contrast to these experiences, the churches present alternative geographies where the migrants take center stage. First, Africans are given responsibility for evangelizing the Gospel, as Europeans are seen to have abandoned their mission. Second, China is presented as a pivotal battlefield for Christianity. And finally, Guangzhou is heralded for its potential to deliver divine promises of prosperity. This geographical imagery assigns meaning to the migration experience, but also reinforces ethnic isolation. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and video recordings of sermons in a Pentecostal church in Guangzhou with a predominately Nigerian congregation.

scholarly journals The use of the social dimension of memory as an emancipatory instrument in communities with socio-cultural vulnerability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Bogado
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Population Replacement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real Estate Valuation ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This article is the result of action research conducted during the postdoctoral research at the Department of Social Museology of the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies and the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, CES-UC, and presents the mobilization against the removal of “6 de Maio neighborhood”, located in Amadora, Lisbon Metropolitan Area, next to the social movement for the Right to Housing. The context is the transformation of the city into the “Lisbon of fashion”, which causes real estate valuation processes and takes on new meanings within the framework of the neoliberal logic of urban management. The consequences are assisted in the accelerated process of population replacement, triggered in certain areas of the city and the metropolitan region, which causes material and symbolic impacts to those affected. The article presents the “Memory Workshops” held in the “6 de Maio neighborhood” as a social movement strategy to trigger popular memory and boost the struggle for the right to housing. We sought to explore new forms of creative and affective resistance capable of acting in symbolic and immaterial spheres. Keywords: Memory Workshops; 6 de Maio, Amadora, Lisbon; Right to the city

Defining Their Right to the City: Perspectives from Lower-Income Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 107808741989208
Author(s):  
Edith J. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Recreation Centers ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
The City

In their desire to revitalize their cities, local government leaders actively promote private development without equal attention to the ways all residents—and not just those with financial means—live their daily lives. To the lower-income teenager with little spendable money, the privatization of public spaces, the lack-of-funding driven demise of public pools and recreation centers, curfews that limit the times when teens can be out, posted restrictions on where they can be and what they can do while there, and not infrequent negative interactions with law enforcement make cities seem almost hostile. Using qualitative data collected through interviews in 2014 and 2018, this article discovers how teenagers perceive their right to the city. The words of the adolescents make clear that their vision of a just city includes not only the fair use of physical spaces but also a place that gives them the right to mature into healthy, well-educated, and financially secure adults.

Forced migration, citizenship, and space: the case of Syrian Kurdish refugees in İstanbul

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gülay Kılıçaslan
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

AbstractThe influx of hundreds of thousands of people from Syria to Turkey, especially into major cities such as İstanbul, together with the Turkish government’s policies towards Syrian refugees, has led to various changes in urban spaces. This article has a twofold objective: it examines and discusses the everyday lives of these refugees with regards to the processes and mechanisms of their exclusion and inclusion in İstanbul, while employing a multiscalar analysis of migration in terms of combining nation-state policies of migration, citizenship, space, and the concept of the “right to the city.” Relying upon interviews and participant observation in the Kanarya and Bayramtepe neighborhoods of İstanbul between 2011 and 2015, I outline the ways in which Syrian Kurdish refugees have been actively transforming İstanbul’s peripheries through their interactions with the Kurds who were forcibly displaced from their rural homes in southeastern Turkey in the 1990s.

scholarly journals No place to shelter: ethnography of the homeless population in the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermes Candido de Paula ◽  
Donizete Vago Daher ◽  
Fabiana Ferreira Koopmans ◽  
Magda Guimarães de Araujo Faria ◽  
Patricia Ferraccioli Siqueira Lemos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Domain Analysis ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Population Isolation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Great Circulation ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze how homeless people live, in times of COVID-19 pandemic, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Method: an ethnographic research that used interviews and observations and articles published in newspapers and magazines of great circulation, using domain analysis. Results: the results tell how the COVID-19 pandemic emerged for the homeless population. Isolation led to emptying the streets and reducing passers-by, damaging their ways of living and their survival tactics. Hunger, thirst, absence of places for bathing and for fulfilling physiological needs became part of their daily lives. Final considerations: given the impossibility of having a place to shelter, acquiring food and water and the limitations in carrying out preventive measures, care actions offered by managers to limit the virus to spread, even in this population, are ineffective.

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