ISBN:
9781469650005
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 252 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Series Statement:
North Carolina scholarship online
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Slum
;
Slums History
;
Poor
;
Rio de Janeiro
;
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Social conditions
Abstract:
Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally establishedand even attractive and exoticrepresentation of poverty. The study traces how the term 'favela' emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals.The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019
,
Translated from the Portuguese
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649986.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649986.001.0001
