Resisting Olympic evictions

Resisting Olympic evictions
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781526156280
ISBN-13 : 1526156288
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Book Synopsis Resisting Olympic evictions by : Adam Talbot

Download or read book Resisting Olympic evictions written by Adam Talbot and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming and homely, directly contesting the myth of marginality – the notion of favelas as havens of crime and poverty which is used to justify slum clearance. In doing so they were showcasing how a different kind of informal community rooted in security and belonging is possible, through a range of social events and other actions. Based on 14 months of fieldwork in Brazil, this book explores how this vision was constructed through collective action, transmitted around the world through both social and traditional media and how it lives on in the Evictions Museum that was created through the process.


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