Dinâmicas territoriais na cidade do Rio de Janeiro: o asfalto invade o morro

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Pereira, Mariana Torres
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The objective of this research is to analyze the recent transformations in the psychosocial processes of occupation of Rio de Janeiro‟s morros, where nearly 1 500 000 people inhabit, 22% of carioca population, in conditions qualified by the federal government as “abnormal settlements”. These places appeared in XVII century when the recent liberated slaves find in the morro as their only alternative of territorial occupation not prohibited by dominant classes, and defined a negative charge since their origins as places of sociospatial segregation. Some of these locations were occupied by narcotrafic during one hundred years, increasing social segregation. Public forces recently installed police units as units of pacification as a proposal for disarticulating the gangs controlling the territory, and as a policy of sociospatial revalorization. As a consequence, favelas has been transformed into touristic points receiving „asphalt visitors‟, in an apparently superation of differences. I discuss the political reality of this supposed integration.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	118
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	4
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www2.ual.es/urbs/index.php/urbs/article/download/torres/191
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article