Voices from the Favelas

Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below

Fernanda Amaral (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4743-6 (ISBN)

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The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case for over a century, since their very beginning. This book will navigate through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing how this partial representation impacts on issues of identity and social segregation and the legitimation of structural violence in those sites and will provide an account of the recent emergence of digital social networks as 'counter publics' and an overview of the image of the favelas in the social media. In order to understand the struggle against the characterisation of the favela as a site dominated by violence (a framework which has been disseminated on a global scale and accepted as the norm), this book will take its readers inside the mindset of the favela media activists, examining the production of information and the organisation of residents as they resist and challenge the status quo. Are the activists able to counteract the official narrative in the struggles against misrepresentation and social invisibility or is the mainstream version of the favela still strong enough to help in the legitimation of the institutionalised violence?

Fernanda Amaral is a researcher at LEMRI (UFRJ/BRAZIL) and Media Discourse Centre (DMU, UK) and holds a doctorate in Media Discourse from De Montfort University. Her work focuses on the representation of the favelas in the media and the use of social networks as counterpublics.

Introduction: Favela and Asfalto: A City that Insists on Remaining Broken

1. Urban Growth, Gentrification and Social Hygiene in Rio de Janeiro 1850-1970

2. “A Good Thief is a Dead Thief”: Police and Violence in a Century of Favela

3. Discourse and Practice: A Multimodal Approach to Study Favelas

4. Life in the Favela: Identity, Stigma, Struggle and Survival

5. Legitimating Violence: The Paths of Police Brutality Intersect with the Stereotypical Representation of Favelas

6. How Many Voices Echo in the City?

7. Tales of Violence: The Hegemony of Violence in the News about the Favelas

8. Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism in the Pockets of Poverty of the City

9. Mobile Revolution: Raw Footage in the Epicentre of the Fight

10. The Official Voices, The voices of the Favela: Struggles for Plurality

11. Activism for Whom? Is Favela Media Activism Effective in Reaching the General Population Outside the Favelas?

Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Protest, Media and Culture
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 227 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-4743-2 / 1538147432
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-4743-6 / 9781538147436
Zustand	Neuware