Entre playas y distopías: Río de Janeiro, ex ciudad capital, y la recepción cinematográfica

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Eliska Altmann

Based on the reception of four Brazilian films, the article tries to identify imaginations about the city of Rio de Janeiro through a dystopian lens typical of our day. The comparative analysis involves “critical-cinematographic” practices that conceive a sociocritical reading assuming that social elements are found in the works themselves, and are also external to them. The criticism of the following films will be verified: Rio fantasia [Rio Fantasy] (1957), by Watson Macedo, and Rio, 40 graus [Rio, 40 degrees] (1955), by Nelson Pereira dos Santos; Rio, verão & amor [Rio, summer & love] (1966) and El Justicero [The Punisher] (1967), of the same directors, consecutively. The documents will highlight dystopian aspects both in the works and in their readings, as well as in the social configurations of the time in a temporal relationship with Brazil today

Medicina ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
Yago Bernardo ◽  
Denes do Rosario ◽  
Carlos Conte-Junior

Background and Objectives: To perform a retrospective report on the lethality of COVID-19 in different realities in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Materials and Methods: We accomplished an observational study by collecting the data about total confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in the top 10 high social developed neighborhoods and top 10 most populous favelas in RJ to determine the case-fatality rate (CFR) and compare these two different realities. Results: CFR was significatively higher in poverty areas of RJ, reaching a mean of 9.08% in the most populous favelas and a mean of 4.87% in the socially developed neighborhoods. Conclusions: The social mitigation measures adopted in RJ have benefited only smaller portions of the population, excluding needy communities.


Author(s):  
Paulo Cruz Terra ◽  
Marcelo de Souza Magalhães

The city of Rio de Janeiro underwent profound changes between 1870 and the early 20th century. Its population grew dramatically, attracting migrants not only from abroad but also from other regions of Brazil. It also expanded significantly in size, as the construction of trolley and railway lines and the introduction of real estate capital powered the occupation of new areas. Meanwhile, urban reforms aimed at modernization transformed the social ways in which urban space was used. During this period, Rio de Janeiro went from being the capital of the Brazilian Empire to being the capital of the Brazilian Republic. It nevertheless maintained its position as the cultural, political-administrative, commercial, and financial center of the country. Against this backdrop of change, the city was an important arena for the political struggles that marked the period, including demonstrations in favor of abolition and the republic. Rio de Janeiro’s citizens were not inert during this period of transformation, and they found various ways to take action and fight for what they understood to be their rights. Protests, demands, petitions, and a vibrant life organized around social and political associations are examples of the broad repertoire used by the city’s inhabitants to gain a voice in municipal affairs. Citizens’ use of public demands and petitions as a channel to communicate with the authorities, and especially with city officials, shows that while they did not necessarily shun formal politics, they understood politics to be a sphere for dialogue and dispute. The sociocultural history of Rio de Janeiro during this period was therefore built precisely through confrontations and negotiations in which the common people played an active role.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoela Carrillo Valduga ◽  
Zélia Breda ◽  
Carlos Martins Costa

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the image of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro as a blended tourism destination (TD) image, by examining the categories of the image, and whether it is positive or negative and cognitive or affective. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach was employed to verify the relations between the image of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro by visit, location, categories and subcategories and dimensions. Data were collected online from a “snowball” sample and were analyzed applying non-parametric hypothesis testing. Statistical analysis was performed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software version 25.0 for Windows. Findings Results reveal that respondents share the same image of the city of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, a conclusion that is partially confirmed by statistical findings. The quantitative results also showed that the image is positive and “natural attractions” and “unique city attractions” are, respectively, the most mentioned subcategory and category. Cognitive attributes of the image have been more mentioned than affective ones. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the image of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro as a blended TD image has never been explored before, however, it has been assumed as being the same.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-408
Author(s):  
Maria Amalia Silva Alves de Oliveira ◽  
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Ingrid Almeida de Barros Pena ◽  

The socioeconomic, political and cultural integration process of the region known as Zona Oeste [West Zone], in the city of Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], was built on agricultural vocation conceiving. The spatial analysis of this work is Rio da Prata, a neighborhood of Campo Grande, in the West Zone. Using desk and field methods, the methodological orientation is given by the theoretical framework of Social Memory. A contextualization of the region is presented in a historical perspective, seeking to dialogue in an interdisciplinary way with issues inherent to representations about the urban-rural from a perspective reoriented towards to the environmental bias, and also about the notions of 'tourism' and 'leisure'. It is hypothesized that the increase of visitation in natural areas, allied to the tendency of turistification of rural communities’ lifestyle changed the people flow in the neighborhood and produced symbolic goods. This work discusses the nuances presented in the turistification process and highlights that it is the memory of what remained in the social representation as rural that draws up the local attractiveness.


2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Tamara Tania Cohen Egler ◽  
Fabiana Mabel de Oliveira

Como, por que e para quem são produzidas as políticas urbanas para os jogos esportivos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro? Os dados apresentados neste trabalho resultam de pesquisa realizada sobre os Jogos Pan-Americanos no Rio de Janeiro, em 2007. O artigo está estruturado em três eixos: discurso oficial; produção e apropriação social dos projetos; cidade democrática. No primeiro eixo, examinamos o que se veiculou como as benesses que os Jogos trariam para a cidade; no segundo, os projetos, a construção e a apropriação social dos equipamentos; e no terceiro, fazemos uma proposta de política pública para o que designamos “uma cidade democrática”. Este encaminhamento analítico tornou possível observar, analisar e apresentar a distância que existe entre o discurso oficial e a realidade dos interesses que compuseram as estratégias para os jogos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Palavras-chave: globalização; políticas urbanas; grandes eventos esportivos; Jogos Pan–Americanos; redes; Rio de Janeiro. Abstract: How, why and for whom are urban policies for sport games in Rio de Janeiro produced? The data presented here result from a research conducted on the Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. The paper is divided in three axes: official discourse; production and social appropriation of the projects; democratic city. The first axis will examine what was reported as benefits that the Games would bring to the city; in the second, the projects, the construction and the social appropriation of the equipments; and in the third, we will make a public policy proposal for what we call “a democratic city”. This analytical way allowed us to observe, analyze and present the gap between the official discourse and the interests that made up the strategies for the games in Rio de Janeiro. Keywords: globalization; urban policy; major events; Pan-American Games; networks; Rio de Janeiro.


Author(s):  
A. Ivanova-Ilyicheva ◽  
N. Orekhov

Mansions and individual residential houses of the early XX century form the basis of the historical center of Novocherkassk. The building of the city harmoniously combines features of traditional Cossack housing and adherence to the capital's architectural fashion, imitation of St. Petersburg. The history of the formation of the city, the social structure of the population, economy and culture determined the features of its architecture. In preparing the article, the methods of field and historical archival research, comparative analysis of works and their details, the method of analogies are used. A comprehensive analysis of typical objects – the mansion of G.M. Salnikov, the Shamarins' mansion, the house of the ataman A.V. Samsonov, residential buildings of the military master V.A. Ratchenkov and the сossack I.A. Suslova. The space-planning, compositional, architectural and artistic features of Novocherkassk mansions and residential buildings in the 1900–1910 s are identified. The authors present the patterns of location of two types of housing in the structure of the city. The tendencies of the Art Nouveau style in the mansions are revealed. A comparative analysis of the functional planning organization and artistic-figurative solution of the Cossack kuren and the city dwelling house is carried out. The study shows the influence of two trends on the residential architecture of Novocherkassk in 1900–1910 – the capital's professional design practice and the local folk tradition.


2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMY CHAZKEL

AbstractAt the beginning of Brazil's First Republic (1889–1930), the clandestine lottery called the jogo do bicho or ‘animal game’, which still exists today, gained enormous popularity in Rio de Janeiro, the city of its origin, and soon in the whole of Brazil. Reconstructing the spread and persecution of the jogo do bicho during its first decades reveals the social process of urbanisation evident in the daily, often informal and quasi-legal, interactions between the state and popular commerce in Latin America. The ambivalent official stance and public sentiment that developed toward this lottery suggest that ‘law and order’ concerns in themselves do not explain the criminalisation of vernacular practices.


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Von der Weid

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. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antônio Carlos de Oliveira ◽  
Ariane Rego de Paiva ◽  
Sindely Chahim de Avellar Alchorne

O presente trabalho tem por objetivos discutir desafios envolvidos na conceituação de acompanhamento familiar e problematizar elementos dos processos para sua efetivação nas unidades da política de assistência social no Rio de Janeiro, tendo por referências as diretrizes da Política Nacional de Assistência Social e as normativas do trabalho social com famílias do Sistema Único de Assistência Social, a análise bibliográfica e a experiência de extensão desenvolvida pela PUC-Rio em parceria com o órgão gestor da assistência social do município do Rio de Janeiro. Identificou-se pontos de convergência e divergência nos processos de acompanhamento familiar entre os diferentes serviços e as principais questões e dificuldades levantadas pelos profissionais.Palavras-Chave: assistência social; Rio de Janeiro; acompanhamento familiar; trabalho social.  Abstract – This study aims to discuss the challenges involved in the conceptualization of family support and to problematize elements of the processes for its effectiveness in the units of the social assistance policy in Rio de Janeiro. The guidelines of the National Social Assistance Policy, the norms of social work with the families of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), and the bibliographic analysis and experience developed by PUC-Rio in partnership with the social assistance agency of the city of Rio de Janeiro were used as references. Points of convergence and divergence were identified in the family support processes between the different services and the main issues and difficulties raised by professionals.Keywords: social assistance; Rio de Janeiro; family accompaniment; social work.


REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Teatro & Dança Repertório

<div>O artigo traça a trajetória dos 25 anos da Intrépida Trupe, grupo que, desde os anos 80, revoluciona a cena contemporânea brasileira mesclando as linguagens de circo, dança e teatro. Numa narrativa que busca refl etir o espírito presente na fi losofi a e nos espetáculos da Trupe, contextualiza- se a criação da companhia, suas estratégias de criação e de desenvolvimento técnico, os meios de produção e manutenção, o vínculo com projetos sociais e com o ensino das artes circenses e do movimento, além das novas ações do grupo numa interferência direta na vida social e cultural da cidade do Rio de Janeiro.</div><div><br></div><div><br /></div><div>Two magic words on the stage: Intrépida Trupe. This article maps the Intrépida Trupe’s 25 year trajectory. The group has been revolutionizing the Brazilian contemporary stage since the 1980s, blending the languages of circus,dance and theatre. The company’s foundation, its creation strategies and development techniques, means of production and maintenance, link with social projects and teaching circus skills and movement are contextualized in a narrative that seeks to reflect the spirit present in the Trupe’s philosophy and shows. The article also addresses the group’s new actions via direct interference into the social and cultural life of the city of Rio de Janeiro.</div>


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