scholarly journals Movimentos sociais, controle social repressivo e criminalização no Rio de Janeiro / Social movements, repressive social control and criminalization in Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (20) ◽  
pp. 153-176
Author(s):  
Taísa Sanches ◽  
Brena Almeida ◽  
Angela Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Family Members ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The City ◽  
Poor Population

A criminalização dos movimentos sociais no Brasil tem sido acirrada nos últimos anos, marcados pela adoção de um modelo de controle social repressivo direcionado às populações faveladas. Este artigo propõe que dita criminalização se remete especificamente aos símbolos e identidades relacionados à população pobre, notadamente na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A partir da categoria “urbanismo subalterno” proposta por Ananya Roy, explora-se como os movimentos sociais favelados operaram transformações em seu repertório de ação, de forma a contestar dita criminalização. Apresentamos resultados e interpretações derivadas de pesquisas, realizadas entre 2013 e 2020, que acompanharam movimentos de mães e familiares de vítimas de violência estatal e movimentos em luta por moradia. AbstractThe criminalization of social movements in Brazil has been rampant in recent years, marked by the adoption of a model of repressive social control directed at favela’s populations. This article proposes that this criminalization targets specifically symbols and identities related to the poor population, notably in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Based on the category “subaltern urbanism” proposed by Ananya Roy, we explored how the favela’s social movements transformed their repertoire of action in order to contest this criminalization. We present results and interpretations derived from research carried out between 2013 and 2020, which followed movements of mothers and family members of victims of state violence, as well as movements in the struggle for housing.

scholarly journals Urban social movements in South Africa today: Its meaning for theological education and the church

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. De Beer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for theological education and the church. Departing from a firm conviction that such movements are irruptions of the poor, in the way described by Gustavo Gutierrez and others, and that movements of liberation residing with, or in a commitment to, the poor, should be the locus of our theological reflection, this article suggests that there is much to be gained from the praxis of urban social movements, in disrupting, informing and shaping the praxis of both theological education and the church. I will give special consideration to Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Reclaim the City campaign in Cape Town, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town, and Abahlali baseMjondolo based in Durban, considering these as some of the most important and exciting examples of liberatory praxes in South Africa today. I argue that theological education and educators, and a church committed to the Jesus who came ‘to liberate the oppressed’, ignore these irruptions of the Spirit at our own peril.

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 STATE, MARKET AND ADMINISTRATION OF TERRITORIES IN THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Pereira Leite
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Local Implementation ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The City

Abstract This article discusses the new modality of governance of the poor in border territories of Brazilian cities, specifically in their favelas and peripheries. We analyze, based on research carried out in Rio de Janeiro, dynamics that, at first glance, could appear to be local: the disciplinarization of inhabitants, the commodification of their territories and the militarization of their lives through the Pacifying Police Units. We argue that these units’ local implementation is an experiment in the production of order without democratic mediations for the management of social conflicts, which has the potential to be replicated in other territories and situations, as well as in relation to other populations under the logic of "urban militarism" (Graham).

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.

scholarly journals HISTÓRIA AMBIENTAL: O SANEAMENTO DA CIDADE DO RIO DE JANEIRO

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marinéa Da Silva Figueira Rodrigues ◽  
Antonio Carlos de Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
City Center ◽  
Current Form ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City

RESUMOO objetivo central deste estudo é analisar o processo histórico do saneamento na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, no final do século XIX, principalmente, nas suas três últimas décadas, com enfoque nos aspectos socioambientais,a partir de fontes acadêmicas contemporâneas e primárias. Acreditamos que através desta perspectiva histórica seja possível discutir, também, de forma atual, os diversos temas interdisciplinares principalmente em educação ambiental. A cidade do Rio de Janeiro, nas últimas décadas do século XIX, passa por graves problemas de habitação, sobretudo com o crescimento populacional,acentuou-se ainda mais o esgotamento de grande parte dos mananciais que abasteciam a cidade. Esse cenário potencializa as doenças epidêmicas e, em contrapartida,cria-seuma medicina urbana. Assim, forma-se um saber ‘médico-administrativo’ que visava a ‘higienização’ da cidade e o seu ‘embelezamento’. O modelo são as cidades europeias, com a ‘limpeza e o arejamento do ar’ e, principalmente, com o afastamento da população pobre do centro da cidade. Assim, fundam-se as bases para a normatização e para o controle da sociedade. Palavras-chave: saneamento; educação ambiental; socioambiental; história ambientalABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to investigate the historical process ofsanitation improvement in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the late nineteenth century, mainly in its last three decades, with a focus on socialenvironmental aspects, from contemporary and primary academic sources. We believe that through this historical perspective it is possible to discussal so the current form, the various interdisciplinary themes in the environmental education.Rio de Janeiro city, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, undergoes severe housing problems, especially with population growth, deepened further depletion of most fountains that supplied the city. This scenario is seasonable toepidemic diseases and, on the other hand,an urban medicine is created. Thus, they form a knowledge 'medical-administrative' aimed at 'cleaning' of the city and its 'embellishment'. The modelsareEuropean cities, with the 'cleaning and aeration of the air', and especially with the removal of the poor from the city center. Therefore, the basis for the regulation and control of society are founded.Key words: sanitation, environmental education, socio environmental; environmental history

Shantytown Dwellers' Resistance in Brazil's First Republic (1890–1930): Fighting for the Right of the Poor to Reside in the City of Rio de Janeiro

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 54-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romulo Costa Mattos
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
First Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

AbstractThis work analyzes evidence of the resistance of poor shantytown dwellers during Brazil's First Republic period (1889–1930), which corresponds to the emergence and consolidation of these favela settlements into the city of Rio de Janeiro. This text not only addresses the different forms of resistance practiced by shantytown residents during the attempts by the government to demolish their homes, but also pays special attention to the years between 1907 and 1927 when the people of Morro da Favela (currently Morro da Providência) ensured the permanence of their houses through street protests.

scholarly journals Os lugares de memória da ditadura: disputas entre o poder público e os movimentos sociais

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana DArc Ferraz ◽  
Lucas Campos
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City

The sites of memory, in Pierre Nora's perspective (1993), are spaces of eternalization of a memory's group that can no longer be spontaneously evoked by collective memory. There is a large dispute between the State and the social movements regarding the preservation of historical heritage that alludes to the Brazilian military-business coup (1964-1985) in Rio de Janeiro. We intend to think the political place of these sites of memories, consulting the patrimony of spaces and buildings which advocate for the coup and dictatorship, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The policy that has been practiced so far by the State can be defined as conciliatory. However, the social movements demand the insertion of their voices in these places, considering them, silenced or forgotten. We are interested in analyzing these disputes and how they reflect on society. Key words: Brazilian military-business dictatorship; memory; patrimony.

Impact of age and schooling on performance on the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery: A study of elderly residents in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verônica C. Araujo ◽  
Christina M. B. Lima ◽  
Eduarda N. B. Barbosa ◽  
Flávia P. Furtado ◽  
Helenice Charchat-Fichman
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cognitive Screening ◽  
Screening Battery ◽  
The City

Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Diesselhorst
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
City Government ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

Challenging the Terms of Order: Representations of the Detroit Rebellions, 1967–1968

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan T. Camp
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Civil Structures ◽  
Us History ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
John Clarke

While many analysts have commented on the representation of 1968 campus events and antiwar demonstrations, less attention has been paid to the global significance of the dramatic struggles in industrial Detroit during the period. The meanings of events in the city were intensely fought over. As Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts observed, the events of 1968 were “an act of collective will, the breaks and ruptures stemming from the rapid expansion in the ideology, culture and civil structures of the new capitalism . . . in the form of a ‘crisis of authority.’” In Detroit the crisis of authority was expressed in the form of popular political struggles against racism, state violence, and the contradictions of life in the industrial capitalist city. This article asks and answers the following research questions about the struggle over the meaning of this decisive turning point in US history: What was the relationship between racial ordering, uneven capitalist development, and mass antiracist and class struggles? How did Black working-class organic intellectuals resist and alter hegemonic definitions of the situation? How are the dialectics of insurgency and counterinsurgency to be best theorized during this precise historical conjuncture? 

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