Postcards from Rio

Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship

Kátia da Costa Bezerra (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2017
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7654-7 (ISBN)

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New Postcards from Rio de Janeiro examines the interconnections between notions of citizenship and space in the works of favela-based cultural producers. It argues that the emphasis on the favela daily life generates an aesthetic of representation involved in the rewriting of the city as part of a process of political resistance and affirmation of difference.

Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.

By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa Bezerra illustrates how citizens of favelas are reshaping their sense of belonging as subjects and as a legitimate part of the city. A groundbreaking study that examines more deeply the relationship between urban space, citizenship, and imagery originating in the favelas, Postcards from Rio sheds crucial light on how contemporary lenses are defining and mediating the meanings of space and citizenship as strategies of empowerment. The city emerges as a political space where multiplicities of perspectives are intertwined with demands for more inclusive forms of governance.

Kátia da Costa Bezerra, Ph.D., is Professor and associate head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. She has published in major journals and is a member of the Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World and The Rocky Mountain Review editorial boards.

Introduction. Favelas: Challenging a Perverse Policy of Exclusion 1. Photographs and Favelas: Toward a Process of Self-Discovery and Belonging 2. Videos, Favelas, and Childhood: Reclaiming New Symbolic Geographies 3. Favelas for Sale: Resisting the Easy Links between Democracy and Urban Restructuring Plans 4. Monuments and Consumption: Defying Mechanisms of Social and Spatial Stratification Conclusion. Competing Discourses: Capital, Spatial Imaginaries, and Citizenship Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8232-7654-6 / 0823276546
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-7654-7 / 9780823276547
Zustand	Neuware