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Viva Favela

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Viva Favela is a research initiative focused on the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of favelas in Brazil. It aims to document and analyze the lived experiences of residents, promote community engagement, and foster sustainable development through participatory methodologies and the dissemination of knowledge.
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Viva Favela is a research initiative focused on the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of favelas in Brazil. It aims to document and analyze the lived experiences of residents, promote community engagement, and foster sustainable development through participatory methodologies and the dissemination of knowledge.

Key research themes

1. How do favelas in Brazil reflect, resist, and reshape social inequality and urban governance?

This research area focuses on understanding favelas not only as spaces marked by poverty and marginalization but as dynamic socio-political territories that manifest and challenge entrenched inequalities in Brazilian urban contexts. It investigates how favelas embody spatialized social exclusion, encounters with urban policies, community organizing, and alternative forms of citizenship and state engagement. Exploring these dimensions reveals favelas as important sites for rethinking governance, social justice, and the meanings of the city.

Key finding: This study highlights how favelas became focal points for exposing social inequalities amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic, revealing challenges in access to housing, sanitation, healthcare, and basic rights. It specifically... Read more
Key finding: Employing Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper reveals how official and political discourses frame favelas as separate, criminalized spaces detached from 'formal' society, which reproduces exclusion and justifies... Read more
Key finding: This work challenges simplistic dichotomies (formal/informal, legal/illegal) by showing the evolving complexity of favelas as integral to Brazil's urban fabric. It details the historical origins linked to slavery and... Read more
Key finding: This essay situates Brazilian favelas within broader theories of uneven urban development, emphasizing their entanglement with capitalist expansion, social control, and urban warfare in Latin American cities. It argues for... Read more
Key finding: Extending the understanding of urban marginality, this interdisciplinary work foregrounds multispecies health perspectives in São Paulo's peripheries, including favelas. It reveals how human and non-human actors co-constitute... Read more

2. What is the evolving nature and impact of media representation on the perception and reality of favelas?

This theme interrogates how both international and local media narratives shape public understandings and policy attitudes towards favelas. It examines shifts between stigmatization emphasizing crime and poverty versus narratives recognizing favelas’ cultural vitality and political agency. Understanding media portrayal is critical as it influences socio-political inclusion, resource allocation, and urban redevelopment strategies affecting favela communities.

Key finding: The study documents a near tenfold increase in media coverage of Rio's favelas between 2008 and 2016, with gradual inclusion of favela residents' voices. However, it finds continued prevalence of narratives emphasizing... Read more
Key finding: This paper critically assesses how dominant media and film portrayals, exemplified by works like 'City of God,' contribute to entrenched stereotypes of favelas as dangerous and impoverished, overshadowing nuanced realities.... Read more
Key finding: Utilizing the example of a hip hop artist engaged with the Viva Favela internet portal, this research illustrates how community-led media initiatives empower favela residents to create and circulate alternative narratives... Read more

3. How do socio-economic contexts and housing policies affect dwelling and urban life in informal settlements and favela-like territories?

This research theme probes the interrelation between housing policies, urban planning, informal economies, and the lived experiences of favela residents and similarly marginalized populations. It focuses on structural conditions influencing housing precarity, displacement, and the negotiation of informality, with implications for social welfare, urban inclusion, and rights to the city.

Key finding: The paper reveals how housing public-private partnerships in São Paulo contribute to repeated forced displacement and a state-induced cycle of 'permanent transitoriness' for low-income renters and squatters, deepening their... Read more
Key finding: This quantitative regional study shows a general decline in urban housing shortages across Latin America and the Caribbean but highlights the persistence of significant deficits in infrastructure, overcrowding, and quality... Read more
Key finding: Through longitudinal fieldwork, this article critically examines the notion of favelas as models of sustainable urbanism, arguing that perceived ecological efficiencies often stem from scarcity and neglect rather than... Read more
Key finding: Although focusing geographically on Havana, this study offers comparative insight into how transnational investment and market processes influence housing in informal or precarious urban contexts akin to favelas. It describes... Read more

All papers in Viva Favela

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