181 results
Search Results
2. THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES URBAN LEGACY REVISITED: A FOCUS ON RIO DE JANEIRO’S NON-FAVELA YOUTHS.
- Author
-
GOHARIPOUR, Hamed and ISKIN, Amanda
- Subjects
OLYMPIC Games ,URBAN youth ,SPECIAL events ,SOCIAL justice ,FOCUS groups - Abstract
Since being selected to host the 2016 Olympic Games, numerous studies have addressed the legacy of the event in Rio de Janeiro. The significance and sensitivity of the issues raised, namely the displacement of favela residents, has raised serious questions during and immediately after the Games about whether mega-events are fundamentally worthwhile. This paper revisits the topic and shares the findings of four focus groups reflecting non-favela youths’ thoughts about the Games after years. The findings show that while many still have positive attitude to few aspects of the Olympic Games, social justice issues significantly adversely affected respondents’ views of the event’s legacy. Some believe that discrimination continues a long-standing trend in the city, exacerbated by the Games. We believe that the International Olympic Committee always needs a Plan B if things do not work correctly in the host city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024
3. Racial geographies of the Anthropocene: Memory and erasure in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Reyes-Carranza, Mariana
- Subjects
EFFECT of human beings on climate change ,GENOCIDE ,PORT cities ,VIOLENCE against Black people ,COMMUNITIES ,GEOGRAPHY ,MEMORY - Abstract
This paper interrogates the extent to which imaginaries of climate and ecological breakdown attend to the memories, knowledges, and experiences of communities already impacted by histories of racism, colonialism, and poverty. Drawing on insights from Black studies and decolonial thinking, the article reflects on how the causes and effects of anthropogenic climate change can be mapped onto geographies of racialised violence and social dispossession. Specific emphasis is given to Rio de Janeiro, notably its port area, a geographical space where future-oriented narratives remain oblivious to the city's history of anti-Black violence and Indigenous genocide. In parallel, the paper looks at the recently built Museum of Tomorrow and its public representations of the Anthropocene. Overall, the article contends that pluralising accounts of the Anthropocene might offer alternative epistemic entry points for understanding and interrupting the mounting ecological catastrophe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
4. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases Reports Findings in Medical Informatics (Development of a mobile application to represent food intake in inpatients: dietary data systematization).
- Subjects
MEDICAL informatics ,REPORTING of diseases ,COMMUNICABLE diseases ,MOBILE apps ,HEALTH information technology ,INGESTION ,FOOD consumption ,OXYGEN consumption - Abstract
A recent study conducted at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aimed to develop a mobile application to assess the acceptability and quality of hospital diets for inpatients. The study found that the application, called ARIETI, demonstrated equivalent reliability compared to the traditional paper-based instrument used to monitor food intake. Additionally, the application was found to accelerate the time to diagnose nutritional risk and improve the ability to maintain information quality compared to the paper-based instrument. This research provides valuable insights into the use of technology in improving nutritional care for hospitalized patients. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2024
5. Necropolitics Beyond the Exception: Parapolicing, Milícia Urbanism, and the Assassination of Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro.
- Subjects
CITIES & towns ,CAPITAL gains ,CITY council members ,ASSASSINATION ,SUBALTERN ,VIOLENCE - Abstract
Copyright of Antipode is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
6. Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Comelli, Thaisa
- Subjects
EQUALITY ,CITIZENSHIP ,COMMUNITY organization ,JUSTICE ,URBAN studies - Abstract
This paper contributes to critical and Southern urban studies by discussing how the notion of hybridity is useful to understand contemporary modes of politics rooted in equality pursuits and crafted by peripheral subjects. It analyses the birth, discourses and tactics of three grassroots groups in Rocinha, an immense peripheral settlement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to show how modern insurgent claims – based on material urban rights – are intertwined with other grammars of justice, such as the politics of intersectional difference, critical pedagogies, solidarity and care. These cases suggest that contemporary insurgency builds on rights-based citizenship claims to create unique pathways that somehow articulate the universality and relationality of justice. I suggest that hybrid insurgent citizenship operates like a braid in which different strategies are uniquely and interdependently linked over time. Whilst in Rocinha the central thread is insurgency, the same logics could apply to other context-situated political traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
7. School segregation in Rio de Janeiro: geographical, racial and historical dimensions of a centre-periphery dynamic.
- Author
-
Windle, Joel
- Subjects
SEGREGATION in education ,EDUCATIONAL equalization ,EDUCATION policy ,PUBLIC schools - Abstract
This paper examines educational segregation in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro through the lens of a multifaceted centreperiphery relationship involving geographical, racial and historical dimensions. The paper first situates Brazilian racial inequalities historically, drawing on decolonial theory, before examining student enrolment patterns in Brazil's second-largest metropolis. Although Brazil is often held to be a racially integrated society, the analysis shows sharp racial and social divisions between a 'peripherally' oriented mass public school system, a 'centrally' oriented private sector, and selective public schools run by the federal government. The selective public sector is undergoing a period of transition, driven by affirmative action policies, and provoking tensions that are examined through the experiences of two politically-engaged teachers. The findings point to the importance of political mobilisation in effecting change and the need for further affirmative action policies, along with a revised funding model for public schooling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
8. School as Soil: Pedagogies of Care for Alternative Future Imaginaries.
- Author
-
Albuquerque, Paula and Pischetola, Magda
- Subjects
SOCIAL injustice ,SOCIAL mobility ,ETHNOLOGY research ,PUBLIC schools ,SEMI-structured interviews - Abstract
In the majority of Brazilian public schools, poverty and social injustice prevail. Most students come from disadvantaged realities, and their future seems to be already defined by a lack of social mobility, exclusion from civil rights, and violence—a situation that has worsened with the global pandemic. Rooted in ethnographic research in public schools in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, this paper explores the role of pedagogies of care in creating alternative, possible, and preferable narratives about the future of these students. By using the metaphor of "school as soil", the study identifies care in four dimensions: time, heterogeneity, mattering, and fertility. It draws on 12 semi-structured interviews with teachers from eight different public schools that were part of a larger doctoral project. By researching school as soil, we examine how pedagogies of care encourage teachers' speculation about preferable imaginaries for the future of their students. Results show that despite precarious resources and scarce institutional support, pedagogies of care appear in multiple reported situations, aiming to inspire learning processes, give voice and agency to the socially marginalized, and allow for ways of thinking that offer alternatives to the seemingly ubiquitous oppressive relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
9. On the Recent Worsening of Income Distribution among the Jewish Population in Brazil.
- Author
-
Goldbaum, Sergio
- Subjects
INCOME inequality ,LORENZ curve ,GINI coefficient ,JEWISH communities ,JEWISH identity ,COMMUNITIES ,CAPITAL cities - Abstract
Brazilian income distribution is one of the most unequal in the world, yet the first 15 years of the twenty-first century showed some improvement in reducing inequality. However, data from Brazilian censuses show that the income distribution of the Jewish population in Brazil worsened from 2000 to 2010. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether this observed phenomenon should be attributed to the emergence of new Jewish identities among poorer segments of Brazilian society or a structural change in the more traditional Jewish community. We calculated Gini coefficients, Lorenz curves, and Kuznets ratios of the Jewish population (i) in Brazil, (ii) in the capital cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, considered as a unit, and (iii) among the general Brazilian population from microdata in the 1980 and 2010 censuses. The results show that the worsening of income distribution among the Jewish population in Brazil is more intense in areas outside of urban centers in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This finding suggests that the observed phenomenon should be attributed to emerging new identities rather than structural change in the more traditional community. A conclusion section addresses issues for further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
10. A New Method to Bridge New Materialism and Emotional Mapping: Spatio-Emotional Experiences in Disaster-Affected Brazilian Favelas.
- Author
-
Sou, Gemma, Carvalho, Juliana, Cidade, Natalia, and Eugenia, Maria
- Subjects
MATERIALISM ,DUALISM ,EMOTIONS ,SMELL ,BRIDGES ,TEXTURES - Abstract
Within the field of emotional mapping, and mapping more broadly, nonhuman things are often understood as mere instruments - they have utility but not agency to shape meaning-making. In this paper we experiment with a new method that aims to challenge the dualism between human and non-human things by bridging new materialism and participatory emotional mapping. We experimented with this “new materialist methodology” during a one-day workshop to explore residents’ spatio-emotional experiences in a disaster-affected favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reflecting on this one-day workshop, we argue that materials with diverse colors, textures, shapes, densities, weights, and smells are key collaborators in emotional mapping. Materials have agency to invoke and evoke diverse emotions with past, present, and future temporalities, and which fall within and beyond the positive-negative emotion binary. Materials can facilitate conviviality and discussion amongst mapping participants, which enables participants to speak about their emotional-spatial experiences with more nuance and complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
11. Impacts of host city image in the country destination branding in sport mega-event context: exploring cognitive and affective image dimensions.
- Author
-
Ferreira, Luciana Brandão, Giraldi, Janaina de Moura Engracia, Maheshwari, Vish, and Oliveira, Jorge Henrique Caldeira de
- Subjects
PLACE marketing ,SPORTS sponsorship ,RURAL-urban relations ,EXPLORATORY factor analysis ,AFFECT (Psychology) ,REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to verify the brand image effects of holding a sport mega-event by investigating the host city's influence on the country's branding, as a tourist destination. Design/methodology/approach: This research considered the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and uses quantitative methods: exploratory factor analysis and regression. Data were collected by structured questionnaires with a sample of (n = 274) international respondents with high international travel experience. Findings: Rio de Janeiro's 2016 host city image positively predicted Brazil's tourist destination image. Both cognitive and affective image dimensions of Rio as a host city predicted Brazil's destination image, but the cognitive image dimensions demonstrated more impact. Practical implications: Even in a mega-event context, city marketing strategies should be planned and executed with a focus on the country's destination image. Originality/value: The study contributes by focusing on presenting the importance of the host city image dimensions to the host country destination image in a sports mega-event context. The study investigated a new approach, the impacts of affective and cognitive dimensions in the overall destination image considering two connected destinations and the hosting of a sport mega-event, a condition not found in the literature thus far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
12. 'The elite troops of trafficking'. An assessment of the phenomenon of military-trained gang members in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Varsori, Andrea
- Subjects
GANGS ,CRIMINALS ,HISTORY - Abstract
In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have acknowledged the threat posed by Military-Trained Gang Members (MTGMs). These individuals have the training, know-how, and expertise necessary to significantly increase the effectiveness and lethality of the armed group they belong to. Even though this threat is present in several criminal insurgencies, usage of the MTGM concept is limited to studies regarding the United States. This paper broadens this scope by assessing the presence and characters of the MTGM phenomenon in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through a review of media output on the topic, spanning over more than 21 years, the paper exposes the roots and extent of this trend, as well as the roles played by MTGMs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2021
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
13. The Trouble with Social Capital: Criminal Networks and Social Capital in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Arias, Enrique Desmond
- Subjects
- *
TRANSNATIONAL crime , *CRIMINAL justice system , *ARREST , *CRIMINAL procedure , *CRIMINAL law - Abstract
Drawing on recent theoretical writings on transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) I will argue illegal networks [INs] that bring together drug traffickers, police, politicians, and civic leaders help to support and maintain criminal activity in Rio by bringing together functionally unique actors who can reciprocally help each other break the law, resist arrest, and build the group trust and localized legitimacy necessary to carry out long term criminal operations. Through a close examination of criminal networks in three favelas in Rio de Janeiro I will add detail to the macro-level studies of TCOs in international relations that will help to explain particular aspects of network functions and the challenge they pose to democratic governance. This paper will support three contentions. First, INs show the importance of moving past a static state-society model of politics. In the context of powerful network organizations that cross state-society boundaries, understandings of social movements and of institutional politics change in important ways. Why, for example, would a senior police officer, long on the take, help to implement policies that would arrest criminals who pay him off? Second, evidence in this paper will show that ongoing criminal activity depends on high levels of trust and legitimacy in certain constrained geographic areas. Counter to much conventional wisdom, this paper will show that criminals depend of social capital, defined as norms of trust and reciprocity, to build up the local legitimacy necessary to prevent arrest and detection. As Alejandro Portes and his collaborators have observed in other contexts, social capital is occasionally used to promote anti-democratic and violent ends. Finally, from a policy perspective, this paper suggests that ongoing problems of violence and crime in the developing world stem from a deep complicity between civic actors, state officials, and criminals and cannot be resolved through simple administrative reform or by only building social capital. The flexibility of these networks and the ability of criminals to work with civic actors enables network members to undermine efforts at repression and local capacity building. By operating in flexible institutions traffickers prevent police from gaining effective intelligence about their activities and they ideally position themselves to corrupt and coopt members of the police and civil society. The structure of networks allows traffickers to incorporate new groups into their criminal operations thereby enabling them to buy off better paid and better armed police or coopt the leaders of new social programs supported by the state. The result is that the more the government invests in repressing trafficking the more powerful traffickers become. Any solution to these problems must focus on the unique structure of localized criminal networks and the needs of particular places where they operate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2002
14. Disarticulated ossicles of sea cucumbers from the Campos Basin, Brazil: A new perspective into the discovery of diversity of Holothuroidea (Echinodermata).
- Author
-
Martins, Luciana, Costa, Karen Badaraco, and Toledo, Felipe
- Subjects
- *
SEA cucumbers , *ECHINODERMATA , *MARINE sediments , *HOLOCENE Epoch , *BIOSTRATIGRAPHY - Abstract
The study of disarticulated ossicles of recent sea cucumbers from Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from various Holocene strata, obtained by micropaleontological methods, resulted in the identification of at least eight holothurian taxa, belonging to the five of the seven orders of Holothuroidea: Apodida (Synaptidae, Chiridotidae), Dendrochirotida (Psolidae and Cucumariidae), Holothuriida (Holothuria), and Molpadiida (Molpadiidae, Eupyrgidae). Our paper endorses the importance of studies of recent fauna based on isolated ossicles for taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and ecology. This study represents the first effort at the study of recent fauna of sea cucumbers based on the analysis of preserved ossicles in marine sediments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
15. Recent Findings from Federal University Rio de Janeiro Provides New Insights into Production Planning and Control (The Influence of Supply Chain Risk Management In Healthcare Supply Chains Performance).
- Subjects
SUPPLY chain management ,PRODUCTION planning ,PRODUCTION control - Abstract
The paper revealed a relationship of supply chain integration, supply chain risk management, and supply chain 4.0 (antecedents) with healthcare supply chain performance (consequent). Keywords: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Production Planning and Control; Technology EN Rio de Janeiro Brazil South America Production Planning and Control Technology 917 917 1 05/08/23 20230511 NES 230511 2023 MAY 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA -- Research findings on Technology - Production Planning and Control are discussed in a new report. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2023
16. Analysis of the Performance of a Private Entity as Agent of Governance in a Local Productive Arrangement of Information Technology.
- Author
-
Pereira da Silva, Flávio D'Angelo, da Silva Martins, Gabriel, Artieri, Tainah Delfino, and do Rosario de Araújo, Yuri
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology ,YOUNG adults ,NETWORK governance ,CITIES & towns ,IMAGINARY histories ,COMPUTER software development - Abstract
This paper analyzes the performance of a private nonprofit entity, called Serratec, a member of the Local Productive Arrangement (LPA) of Information Technology (IT) in the mountainous region in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, which exercises the governance of it. This article shows a single case study based on bibliographical research and unstructured interviews with managers of Serratec. The geographic region of this LPA involves four cities and around four hundred companies of software development, mostly small and medium sized. Sixty-three of those companies are associated with Serratec, contributing financially and benefiting from it. Besides economical results, this LPA acts an important social role, training and offering first job opportunities to young people or people under social vulnerability conditions. These cities and companies of this LPA are officially part of another productive arrangement of IT that involves nineteen cities in a large geographic area, including the capital of the state, which makes this arrangement unable to meet the demands of companies and society of the mountain region. Despite being just three years old and did not take part of the genesis of the LPA, Serratec inherited and reactivated a thirty-year history of alternating expansion and contraction phases, motivated by planned actions by the government and business representation bodies, promoting technology and innovation in the region. The LPA is classified as "in development" and the governance is called "soft". Serratec is focused on creating conditions for companies and society to develop themselves in economic and social aspects with low environmental impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023
17. Battler Below the Border.
- Subjects
EDITORS ,FREEDOM of the press ,ETHICS - Published
- 1953
18. Grounding the digital: a comparison of Waze 'avoid dangerous areas' feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US.
- Author
-
Carraro, Valentina
- Subjects
SMART cities ,GEOGRAPHERS ,COMPARATIVE studies ,AMBIVALENCE - Abstract
This paper presents a comparative study of the Waze avoid areas (WADA) feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, and the US. I argue that, through comparative approaches, geographers can 'ground' the digital, developing situated accounts of how emerging technologies work at different sites. Taking as a starting point the controversies raised by WADA, I address the following research questions: How does the feature work in the three research sites? What political problems does it raise? What are its effects? Drawing on 124 news articles, blog posts and forum threads in English, Arabic, Hebrew and Portuguese, the analysis complicates existing characterisations of similar apps as emblematic of the smart city's most oppressive characteristics, pointing at three themes: the relevance of local settings in the enactment of WADA, the interplay of different logics in its definition of danger, and the heterogeneity of public reactions to the app. More broadly, the study demonstrates that grounded comparative studies can decentre and enrich the scholarship on digital geographies, underscoring the contingency and ambivalence of digital technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2021
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
19. 'Urban biocultural diversity' as a framework for human–nature interactions: reflections from a Brazilian favela.
- Author
-
Stålhammar, Sanna and Brink, Ebba
- Subjects
CITY dwellers ,CULTURAL pluralism ,URBAN planning ,ECOSYSTEM services ,ENVIRONMENTAL degradation ,SQUATTER settlements - Abstract
Biocultural diversity (BCD), denoting the 'inextricable link' between biological and cultural diversity, has traditionally highlighted the coevolution between highly biodiverse regions and the ethnic–linguistic diversity of indigenous communities. Recently, European researchers have relaunched BCD as a conceptual foundation for urban greenspace planning capable of overcoming challenges of the ecosystem services paradigm. However, the methodological foundation for this particular approach to 'urban BCD' is still in its infancy, obscuring precisely how the framework is an advancement for studying different urban residents' experience of and connectedness to nature and biodiversity. In this paper, we further develop the urban BCD concept by using the culturally and biologically diverse city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as a 'critical case'. First, we employ qualitative field methods to investigate manifestations of human–nature relationships in the favela (informal settlement) of Rocinha and the neighbouring Tijuca Forest. Second, we reflect on how the urban BCD framework and methodology emphasise i) interrelationships, ii) varied group values and iii) participation, and iv) are sensitising and reflexive. Our findings challenge the 'usual' narrative about favelas as places of environmental degradation and disaster risk, revealing BCD and nature connectedness that are as related to popular culture, fitness ideals and citizen-building, as to traditional livelihoods and spiritual beliefs. Departing from interrelationships, BCD can portray aspects that a narrow focus on 'services' and 'disservices' cannot, but attention should be paid to how operationalisation risks perpetuating ecosystem services thinking. Nevertheless, we identify promising avenues for its use in highly diverse cities with unequal access to natural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2021
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
20. The job Market in Public Relations: study on the scenario of formal labor activity in Brazil (2013-2018).
- Author
-
Costa Martins, Tiago, da Silva Oliveira, Victor, and Dias Pons, Mônica Elisa
- Subjects
PUBLIC relations ,SWARM intelligence ,CONFLICT management ,FINANCE ,ECONOMIC systems ,INTELLIGENCE service - Abstract
Copyright of Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas is the property of Instituto de Investigacion en Relaciones Publicas and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2021
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
21. The global automotive production network: Network structure and corporate strategies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Author
-
Pereira dos Santos, Rodrigo Salles
- Subjects
GLOBAL production networks ,BUSINESS planning ,INTERNATIONAL business enterprises ,URBAN community development ,LABOR market - Abstract
Copyright of Revista Tamoios is the property of Editora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EdUERJ) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2021
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
22. Before and after the vuvuzela: identity, image and mega-events in South Africa, China and Brazil.
- Author
-
Tomlinson, Richard, Bass, Orli, and Bassett, Thomas
- Subjects
OLYMPIC Games ,SPORTS tournaments - Abstract
Focusing on recent and upcoming mega-events in South Africa, China and Brazil, this paper contrasts and critiques the associated image and identity opportunities and risks, as well as comparative motivations for hosting such events. Accordingly, the paper considers the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the scheduled 2014 World Cup and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil. In the context of an increasing number of mega-events being hosted in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China; South Africa is to join), the paper provides broader continuity and introduces a broader research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2011
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
23. New Sustainable Food and Agriculture Findings from Federal University Rio de Janeiro Discussed (Access, Health, re-conhecimento: Co-crafted Brazilian Discourses On Sustainable Food).
- Subjects
SUSTAINABLE agriculture ,POLARIZATION (Social sciences) ,FOOD consumption ,RESEARCH personnel ,SUSTAINABLE consumption - Abstract
A recent study conducted by researchers at Federal University Rio de Janeiro explores the discourse on sustainable food and agriculture in Brazil. The study emphasizes the importance of incorporating diverse perspectives and knowledge from different parts of the world in academic discussions on food justice and sustainable food consumption. The research examines the multi-stakeholder process that shaped the discourse and policy-making on this topic in Brazil, highlighting key initiatives such as Zero Hunger and the School Feeding Program. The study also discusses the dismantling of the institutional architecture for this discourse in 2019 and the potential for reactivation in the future. The researchers argue that investing in long-term multi-stakeholder dialogue processes is crucial, particularly in times of political polarization. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2024
24. Regional inequality and CO2 emissions-based trade across value chains networks: a multiscalar analysis from Brazilian states.
- Author
-
Rodrigues Sanguinet, Eduardo
- Subjects
VALUE chains ,REGIONAL disparities ,NETWORK governance ,ENVIRONMENTAL responsibility ,BILATERAL trade - Abstract
This article analyses the interregional linkages and the relative intensity of CO
2 emissions embedded into domestic and global value chains from Brazilian states. An extended environmentally interregional input-output model (EEIIO) was applied to measure the bilateral trade in value-added (TiVA) and the total implicit emissions trade (TTE). The results reveal unbalanced pollution patterns in space. Few manufacturing hubs in core Brazilian states (mainly São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) are net importers of intensive greenhouse gas (GHG) inputs from peripheries, implying an environmental responsibility driven by networks' governance and relative position. By recognizing the role that multiscalar integration plays in implicit CO2 in both production and trade, it is possible to build local strategies to reduce sustainable spatial gaps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
25. Fala aí checklist: Peer conversations recognising practices of care, hope and solidarity in times of loss and difficulty.
- Author
-
Helena Abdalla, Lúcia
- Subjects
YOUNG adults ,COMMUNITIES ,DOMESTIC violence ,HOPE ,SOLIDARITY ,UNEMPLOYMENT - Abstract
In Brazil, as elsewhere, The COVID-19 pandemic and related upheavals exacerbated problems like unemployment and domestic violence. Feelings of hopelessness, isolation and impotence became pervasive. Seeking ways to respond to the uncertainty, insecurity and discouragement that many young people were expressing, the author sought ways that stories of courage, care, hope and solidarity could be shared and acknowledged. Drawing on the ‘checklist of psychological and social resistance’ developed in Lebanon by David Denborough and Mohamad Safa, a conversation guide for Brazilian communities was developed. It can be used by professionals, but is particularly designed for use among friends, family members and colleagues. It can even be used for individual reflection. Through consultation with the Nelson Mandela Favela in Rio de Janeiro, and its young people in particular, the Fala aí checklist was refined to be accessible and culturally resonant as a prompt for peer conversations that sustain hope and connection. The Fala aí checklist is included in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
26. Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Comelli, Thaisa, Anguelovski, Isabelle, and Chu, Eric
- Subjects
GENTRIFICATION ,URBAN renewal ,PUBLIC spaces ,RESIDENTS ,SEGREGATION - Abstract
This paper contributes to global perspectives on gentrification by interrogating the experiences of urban redevelopment and transformation in the global South. Through unpacking the contradictions of public space revitalization and upgrading in two favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we critically examine changes to the socio-spatial fabric of informal settlements over time. Our analysis reveals that upgrading projects, when combined with state-led favela pacification, create socio-spatial legibility through three inter-related pathways of physical, symbolic, and economic discipline. In the outset, favela upgrading increases property prices and produces an urban scenario molded for outsiders while simultaneously invisibilizing traditional cultural and social uses. For favela residents, however, upgrading is experienced as iterative processes of securitization and restriction, which involve strategies such as environmental clean-up, property enclosure, police violence, and new exclusionary forms of investments. As a result, the most socially vulnerable residents are controlled, coercively driven away, and slowly erased. Over time, the apparent integration of the formal and informal city, of the rich and the poor, of the 'asphalt' and the 'hill' in Rio de Janeiro produces new forms of separation, segregation, and fragmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2018
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
27. A critical analysis of CDM implementation in landfills in Rio de Janeiro after 2012: reflections on its socio-environmental contribution capacity in the Brazilian solid waste treatment sector.
- Author
-
Pacheco Cruz, Natalia
- Subjects
- *
CLEAN development mechanism (Emission control) , *WASTE treatment , *SOLID waste , *EMISSION control , *LANDFILLS , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) , *WASTE management - Abstract
The paper reports a study of Clean Development Mechanism implementation in landfills in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CDM is supposed to promote sustainable development through projects of GHG emission reductions. This analysis focuses on the power relationships behind the socio-political process of adopting the mechanism in landfills where emissions have been reduced by the breakdown of biodegradable waste. Sociological concepts such as 'ecological practices'; 'market' and 'environmental justice' were used for the analysis. CDM's neoliberal traits combined with local economic interests that shape the waste management domain in Rio can affect the mechanism's capacity to promote local social-environmental progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
28. The panorama of animal leptospirosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, regarding the seroepidemiology of the infection in tropical regions.
- Author
-
Martins, Gabriel and Lilenbaum, Walter
- Subjects
LEPTOSPIROSIS ,ANIMAL diseases ,PUBLIC health ,EPIDEMIOLOGY - Abstract
Background Leptospirosis is an important disease caused by various serovars of Leptospira sp. It can affect humans as well as domestic and wild animals; therefore, it has importance for public health, animal production, and wild species. The aim of this paper is to discuss the epidemiology of animal leptospirosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a possible model for other tropical regions. In several studies conducted in the last 20 years, a total of 47 rats, 120 dogs, 875 cows, 695 horses, 1,343 goats, 308 sheep and 351 pigs from all regions of the state, in addition to 107 wild mammals and 73 golden-lion tamarins were tested (MAT) for anti- Leptospira antibodies. Results Seroreactivity was frequent in all studied species, confirming that the infection is endemic in Rio de Janeiro. Serogroups Icterohaemorrhagiae and Sejroe were the most prevalent in urban and rural scenarios, respectively. This paper reviews the current knowledge on animal leptospirosis in Rio de Janeiro and describes important differences between urban versus rural cycles of the infection in various species. Conclusion Identification of the prevailing serogroups and their reservoirs is essential for understanding agent-host-environment interactions under tropical conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2013
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
29. Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu: Inter-American revolutionary and abolitionist (1791–1863).
- Author
-
Belton, Lloyd
- Subjects
ABOLITIONISTS ,REVOLUTIONARIES ,HISTORY of civil rights ,PEOPLE of color ,NINETEENTH century ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,HISTORY - Abstract
This article explores transnational dialogues between peoples of color in Brazil, Spanish-speaking South America, Haiti, and North America on issues relating to revolution, abolitionism, diplomacy, and civil rights in the nineteenth century. By focusing on Emiliano Felipe Benício Mundrucu (1791–1863), a Brazilianpardowho traveled and lived in Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, and the United States, this paper discusses the unique socio-economic, racial, and political perspectives that educated, polyglot, and unusually well-traveled peoples of color brought to debates on abolition, civil rights, and broader hemispheric-wide questions of black identity in this period. It also explores their involvement in transnational revolutionary activity in the early nineteenth century, discussing how Mundrucu, along with other Brazilian secessionists, solicited the help of the young, radical republics of Haiti and Gran Colombia to challenge the Brazilian monarchy in Rio de Janeiro and establish a federalist republic in the north east of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2018
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
30. Comments on Palanisamy et al. (2024) "Spatio-temporal analysis of shoreline changes and future forecast using remote sensing, GIS and kalman filter model: A case study of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil".
- Author
-
Alencar Castro, João Wagner, Fernandes, Daniel, Gouvea Junior, Willian Cruz, Sampaio de Miranda, Frederico Maciel Pinheiro, and Antonio Jimo Miguel, Lucas Lavo
- Subjects
- *
SHORELINES , *REMOTE sensing , *GEOGRAPHIC information systems , *LANDSAT satellites , *KALMAN filtering , *COASTAL changes , *COASTS , *FORECASTING - Abstract
This work presents a comment on the paper "Spatio-temporal analysis of shoreline changes and future forecast using remote sensing, GIS and Kalman filter model: A case study of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Results obtained by Palanisamy et al. (2023) differ from other works on the coastline of Rio de Janeiro. Images from the Landsat 1–3 Multispectral Scanner (MSS) satellite and Landsat 5–9 images were inappropriately used in the detailing to delimit the shoreline variations. The lack of information about tides and waves at the time of image acquisition compromised the research results. Oceanographic - meteorological data relating to the month, day and time of the satellite's passage are fundamental in studies of this nature. These forcings are capable of temporarily modifying the morphology and position of coastline. The article proposed by Palanisamy et al. (2023) underestimated the rates of accretion and coastal erosion along the coastline of Rio de Janeiro city by neglecting the issues addressed here. • Results obtained by Palanisamy et al. (2023)on the shoreline variations in Rio de Janeiro city are questioned here. • Methodological procedures used to delimit the historical shoreline variations of Rio de Janeiro city presented inconsistencies. • Results obtained by Palanisamy et al. (2023) on the shoreline of Rio de Janeiro city are incompatibles with other work carried out in the study area. • Comments presented here aim to contribute to the evolution of knowledge about the coastal erosion process (geological hazard) on the shoreline of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
31. Storytelling, Performing Arts, and Collective Capacity in One Rio Favela.
- Author
-
Stephenson Jr., Max and Moayerian, Neda
- Subjects
PERFORMING arts ,POLITICAL attitudes ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,ORGANIZATIONAL behavior ,CIVIL society ,COMMUNITY involvement ,STORYTELLING ,CULTURE diffusion ,EXPRESSIVE behavior - Abstract
Brazil's favela residents have long challenged the dominant media and social narrative that has described them by employing discourses of criminality. That prevailing, and discriminatory, view obscures the complex and multifaceted character, dynamism, and individual and collective agency of these communities' populations. This article examines the work of Redes da Maré, a civil society organization that offers cultural spaces for community-based creation and diffusion of the arts in its namesake favela. We employ the concepts of the social imaginary as well as individual and collective agency to investigate whether and in what ways this nongovernmental organization (NGO), which has adopted a cultural development approach, encourages participants' democratic attitudes and behaviors at the organizational and community level by fostering participation in the development process and offering a platform for the expression of the voices of those it engages. Our analysis is based on interviews with organizers and participants of Redes' arts program and its Free Dance School of Maré and on a review of relevant events in Maré's Arts Center. This inquiry contributes to a more nuanced view of the roles the arts can play in encouraging democratic agency and possibility among favela citizens despite adverse political and social conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
32. A new marine gastrotrich from the State of São Paulo (Brazil), with a key to species of Pseudostomella (Gastrotricha, Thaumastodermatidae).
- Author
-
Todaro, M. Antonio
- Subjects
GASTROTRICHA ,FORMALDEHYDE - Abstract
In previous papers, faunistic and preliminary taxonomic data on the gastrotrich communities along the coastline of the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were reported; among the over 40 records, the occurrence of several species new to science was highlighted. One of such new taxa is described here based on observation carried out on living and SEM prepared specimens. Pseudostomella dolichopoda sp. n. (Gastrotricha: Thaumastodermatidae) is the only species in the genus that attains 420 µm in total length, is covered by pentancres and possesses, among others, caudal pedicles up to 45 µm in length. Additional differences with co-generic taxa characterized by a pentancrous covering are discussed. Furthermore, a key to the described Pseudostomella species of the world based on easily discernible traits, visible in both living and formalin-fixed specimens, is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2012
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
33. Seeing Like Citizens : Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University.
- Author
-
SCHWARTZMAN, LUISA FARAH
- Subjects
AFFIRMATIVE action programs in education ,UNIVERSITY & college admission -- Social aspects ,CULTURAL identity ,EDUCATIONAL equalization ,SELECTIVE admission (School) ,SOCIAL conditions of students ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Copyright of Journal of Latin American Studies is the property of Cambridge University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2009
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
34. Making Trash into Treasure: Struggles for Autonomy on a Brazilian Garbage Dump.
- Author
-
Millar, Kathleen
- Subjects
RAGPICKERS ,WASTE disposal sites ,BRAZILIANS ,CAPITALISM ,REFUSE collectors - Abstract
In recent years, the expansion of types of work that fall outside the category of formal waged employment challenge many of our anthropological conceptions of labor, class politics and contemporary capitalism. This paper addresses the need to rethink the meaning of work in the context of neoliberal capitalism by exploring the formation of new worker subjectivities and practices among catadores: informal workers who collect and sell recyclable materials on a garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Based on ethnographic research conducted among catadores from June through August of 2005 and in January 2007, this paper provides an analysis of the labor conditions, social relations, and forms of political organizing that have emerged on the garbage dump and which differ in significant ways from those found in situations of formal wage labor. Ultimately, this paper argues that while neoliberal capitalism has led to increased unemployment and underemployment among vulnerable populations in cities worldwide, the practices of those struggling to earn a living in urban informal economies are creating new spaces for alternative economic practices, social relations, and class politics today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
35. Evaluation of the contaminating potential of an important tributary which flows into Guanabara Bay, Rio deg Janeiro, Brazil.
- Author
-
Silva, D.M., Pereira, W.C.y, Kligerman, D.C., and Jacob, Silvana Do Couto
- Subjects
ECOSYSTEM management ,WATER pollution ,RIVERS ,NATURE conservation ,POLLUTION ,ENVIRONMENTAL management - Abstract
Purpose — The purpose of this paper is to obtain knowledge about one of the issues that affects the ecosystem in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Studies on the environment are of fundamental importance if the quality of life of the inhabitants of certain regions is to be assured. Design/methodology/approach — Physicochemical and biological analysis were performed of samples collected at four points along the river. Some of the parameters established by CONAMA Brazilian Regulation #357/05 were evaluated. Findings — This paper did a physicochemical and biological characterization of a significant tributary river to the Guanabara Bay. This level of characterization has not been done before. The results achieved show that this river was in a worse condition than what was expected. Practical implications — With its potential for tourism and fishing, and its importance to Rio de Janeiro City and the State as a whole, Guanabara Bay should be the object of more in-depth studies and actions of a practical nature to bring about its ecological recovery. Originality/value — This paper is a new source of information about this important tributary, as is Faria-Timbó River to Guanabara Bay. This bay borders on a number of municipalities in the State and is of crucial importance not just for the neighboring towns and cities, but also for the entire State because of the fish stocks it harbors, which are consumed in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
36. Conditions of detention and the deterioration of juveniles' health: An evidence of ill-treatment in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Novis, Roberta
- Subjects
ADOLESCENT health ,DISEASES ,JUVENILE detention - Abstract
This paper demonstrates that the health of juveniles in deprivation of liberty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, deteriorates while in detention and that conditions of detention are the major catalyst for offenders' declining health status. The environment is conducive to the propagation and contamination of health-related problems such as skin, respiratory, dental, and ear illness and viruses and parasitic infections. The paper concludes that at the moment, both inmates and the environment are disease carriers, deteriorating juveniles' health status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2007
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
37. The Image of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro as a Tourist Destination: Results of a Pilot Study on Foreigners' Intentions to Attend the 2016 Olympic Games.
- Author
-
Melo, Thiago and Mataruna, Leonardo
- Subjects
BRAZIL description & travel ,TOURIST attractions ,TOURISM ,OLYMPIC Games (31st : 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Abstract
This paper investigates how sports mega-events influence the image of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro as a tourist destination. It focuses on the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro. The following hypothesis guided our research: The more positive the image of Brazil as a tourism destination, the higher the intention to visit the country during the Olympic Games. A mixed research design combining both qualitative and quantitative approaches was used. Participants were recruited in the city centre of Munich, Germany. The results show that the foreigners who attended to this study have a positive image of Brazil, however this is not directly related to their intention to visit the country during the Olympics. Other aspects, such as sport interest, for instance, might be involved. Based on the pilot study, and more aspects that might influence their likelihood to attend the country, a larger sample will be recruited and the results will provide implications for host cities and host nations, sport federations, and tourism managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2016
38. The Romantic Career: Partner Choice among Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro".
- Author
-
Osuji, Chinyere
- Subjects
BLACK white differences ,INTERRACIAL couples ,LIFE course approach - Abstract
I introduce the term "romantic career" to understand the process throughout the life course through which people learn their preferences for romantic partnership and marriage. I examine the narratives and accounts that respondents use to explain and normalize their partner choices and preferences. Drawing on eighty-seven interviews with black-white couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I show the variety of ways that spouses neutralize their different-race partnering through socially approved discourse. I find that in both sites, spouses engaged in a denial of responsibility for their prior and current partners. In Rio, respondents drew on discourses of desire while in Los Angeles, respondents discussed opportunity structures. This paper sheds light on the family as an important institution for analyzing race. It is part of a larger book project on interracial couples in Brazil and the U.S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2016
39. From goalscorer to politician: The case of Romário and football politics in Brazil.
- Author
-
Doidge, Mark and de Almeida, Bárbara Schausteck
- Subjects
SPORTS & state ,FOOTBALL ,FOOTBALL players ,BRAZILIAN politics & government, 2003- ,POLITICAL participation - Abstract
During his playing days, the Brazilian striker Romário was one of the most famous footballers in the world. He played for three of Brazil’s top clubs in Rio de Janeiro, as well as Barcelona and PSV Eindhoven. He won the World Cup and scored over one-thousand goals throughout his career. After this successful career, Romário entered politics, first as a deputy in the city of Rio and later as a senator in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Romário’s electoral success is not simply down to his footballing ability, nor the popularity of the sport in Brazil. Sports stardom, celebrity and celebrity politicians are also engaging with complex cultural processes. He has traded on his footballing stardom, but he also connects with his electorate through specific policy campaigns that resonate particularly well with his Brazilian voters. More importantly, he uses football and his footballer career as a metaphor for the wider problems facing Brazilian society. Drawing on literature from Sports Stardom, Celebrity and Celebrity Politicians, this paper charts the political career of Romário within the socio-political context of Brazil and argues that celebrity politicians still need to engage with their audiences regardless of their previous careers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2017
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
40. Rio de Janeiro's ocean economy as a key vector for sustainable development in Brazil.
- Author
-
Santos, Thauan, de Assis Cabral, Joilson, dos Santos Lima, Paulo Vitor, and de Andrade Santos, Matheus
- Subjects
BLUE economy ,SERVICE industries ,MARINE resources ,OCEANOGRAPHIC maps ,JOB creation ,SHORE protection - Abstract
The ocean economy is becoming more than ever a key to job creation, value addition, and sustainable development of countries and regions. Given the growth of the world population and the pressure on onshore resources, the demand for marine resource exploration and maritime activities is growing, leading to different policies around the world. In the case of Brazil, a country with an extensive coastline, there are still few public policies and official definitions/data capable of fostering the ocean economy. Hence, this paper aims to map the sectors of the ocean economy of the state of Rio de Janeiro (SRJ), highlighting its potential for recovery of the local economic dynamics. To this end, the methodology considers the economic sectors that present a direct influence from the sea, encompassing 89 economic activities that were divided into 6 sectors. The treatment, cleaning, graphics, and maps created from R 4.2.2 used the following packages: tidyverse, basedosdados, paletteer, ggthemes, systemfonts, ggtext, sf, geobr. 2021 is the base year for the data, which used two main official Brazilian bases: Annual Social Information Report (RAIS) and tax data from the Internal Revenue Service, compiled by Datalake Neoway. Among the main results, we highlight the relevance of the service sector, particularly those related to the oil and gas industry (P&G) and tourism. • The ocean economy should be taken as a vector of sustainable development in Brazil. • Promoting the ocean economy requires a reformulation of public policies. • There are many industries and stakeholders involved in SRJ's ocean economy. • Like other countries, the service sector stands out in SRJ's ocean economy. • Despite its informality, tourism generates more jobs in SRJ's ocean economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
41. Paving the Olympic Dream: The Politics of the 2007 Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Nothen, Guilherme
- Subjects
PAN American Games ,OLYMPIC Games ,SPORTS team management ,ATHLETIC associations ,HISTORY - Abstract
The making of the 2007 Pan-American Games, held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, marked the beginning of the long transformation that this city would undergo in connection to sports mega-events. This paper revisits how the 2007 Pan-American Games were largely produced under the promise that its legacies, particularly the infrastructural ones, could be effectively mobilized in order to strengthen the chances of bringing the Olympics to Brazil for the first time. Whereas this rhetoric has proven somewhat successful in helping the city to secure the right to host the 2016 Olympics, the alleged connection between both events has shown to be much more limited than its proponents had initially advertized. In reality, most of the venues constructed for the Pan-American Games had to be thoroughly renovated for the Olympics, while some of them presented structural problems and/or failed to meet the standards imposed by international sports federations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2016
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
42. Ludic maps and capitalist spectacle in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Angelini, Alessandro
- Subjects
INVESTORS ,ECONOMIC development ,GENEALOGY ,LANDSCAPES - Abstract
Rio de Janeiro is undergoing a makeover that is undeniably spectacular. Redevelopment schemes are dramatically rearranging the urban landscape, and crucially, this economic growth hinges on the production and circulation of images of the city. This paper explores a site of alterity and resistance where a favela youth collective has re-created Rio from its margins. This miniature world, known as Morrinho and built of bricks, mortar, and re-used materials, hosts a role-playing game featuring thousands of inch-tall avatars. This paper argues that re-visioning the world anew through play makes the society of the spectacle inhabitable and thus contestable. How does the society of the spectacle become a terrain for struggle in Rio? Locating spectacle production in nation-state formation and the urban process, the paper provides a genealogy of the spectacle beyond the modern North Atlantic metropole. Locating the favela within a Brazilian geographical imagination frames ethnographic data collected as an observer and participant in the Morrinho game. While the spectacle may hinge on the relationship between visuality and power, this essay observes how signs take on material lives through ludic re-appropriation. Play becomes a form of commentary, an alternative mode of knowledge about the city, and functions dually as both description of and participant in the social world in which it is embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2015
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
43. Struggles over an ‘Old, Nasty, and Inconvenient Monopoly’: Municipal Slaughterhouses and the Meat Industry in Rio de Janeiro, 1880–1920s.
- Author
-
LOPES, MARIA-APARECIDA
- Subjects
SLAUGHTERING ,MEAT industry ,MEAT packaging ,MEAT ,INTERNATIONAL trade - Abstract
Copyright of Journal of Latin American Studies is the property of Cambridge University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2015
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
44. Direct and indirect exposure to violence and psychological distress among civil servants in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a prospective cohort study.
- Author
-
Lopes, Claudia S., Moraes, Claudia L., Junger, Washington L., Werneck, Guilherme L., Ponce de Leon, Antonio C., and Faerstein, Eduardo
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,LONGITUDINAL method ,ECONOMIC change ,SOCIAL change ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,MENTAL illness ,URBAN violence - Abstract
Background: Important social and economic changes accompanying the recent fast rate of urbanization have been considered a major factor in triggering and sustaining urban violence in Brazil. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of exposure to direct, indirect, and contextual violence on the risk of psychological distress. Methods: Prospective longitudinal study carried out among 3,058 civil servants working at university campuses in Rio de Janeiro. Psychological distress was measured using the General Health Questionnaire, and exposure to individual violence was assessed as direct (DV), indirect (IV), and both direct and indirect (DIV). Contextual violence was assessed through the geocoding of residential addresses of study participants and the rates of homicides in 2005 at the corresponding weighting area. Multiple logistic regression was used to evaluate individual and contextual correlates of psychological distress. Results: Exposure to DIV increased more than six times (95% CI 2.7-16.0) the odds of psychological distress occurrence at the six-year follow-up. Regarding persistence of psychological distress, the association with violence exposure was 1.6 (95% CI 1.0-2.4) for DV and 2.7 (95% CI 1.3-5.3) for IV. Contextual violence was not associated with psychological distress, and no interaction effect was found between exposure to individual and contextual violence in the occurrence/persistence of psychological distress. Conclusions: Results of this study highlight the importance of assessing multiple forms of violence in research on the social determinants of mental disorders and support the view that individual exposure to different forms of violence increases the risk of psychological distress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2015
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
45. From editors abroad into businesswomen back in Brazil.
- Author
-
Elblink, Marcia Triunfol
- Subjects
CAREER changes ,BUSINESSWOMEN ,MOLECULAR biology - Abstract
After living for 12 years in the United States, and a career shift from bench scientist in molecular biology to science writer and editor, the author goes back home to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to found Publicase, a science communication company specialised in health sciences, biology, and biomedicine. This article discusses what the author learned on the way about the challenges, opportunities, and rewards of creating and growing Publicase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2013
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
46. “A Gift from God”: Adolescent Motherhood and Religion in Brazilian Favelas.
- Author
-
Steele, Liza G.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS ethics ,TEENAGE mothers ,UNMARRIED mothers ,RELIGION & sociology ,CHURCH work with unmarried mothers - Abstract
This study seeks to understand how young, unmarried mothers and mothers-to-be in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have experienced religious morality as applied to themselves and other adolescents in their communities, as well as how religious leaders grapple with the moral issue of unmarried adolescent maternity in their midst. Drawing on more than 50 interviews conducted in Rio with young mothers, Catholic and evangelical religious leaders who work with the poor, and staff members of non-governmental organizations, this paper seeks to understand the acceptance—or even approval—that unmarried pregnant teens and adolescent mothers usually encounter, which casts doubt on whether the issue is actually posing a moral dilemma for these religious institutions. The realities of everyday life in Rio's favelas, most prominently the ever-present specter of violence, high rates of teen motherhood, strong popular opposition to abortion, the high value accorded to motherhood, and the intense competition of the religious marketplace appear to influence the ways in which favela residents and religious leaders understand and interpret morality. More generally, this study offers an example of how religious groups working in impoverished communities throughout the world might adapt traditional moral codes to suit their circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2011
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
47. Doubts Remain, Risks Persist: HIV Prevention Knowledge and HIV Testing Among Drug Users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Author
-
Singer, Merrill, Clair, Scott, Malta, Monica, Bastos, Francisco I., Bertoni, Neilane, and Santelices, Claudia
- Subjects
COCAINE abuse ,AIDS prevention ,QUALITATIVE research ,HIV infections ,HIV ,OPEN-ended questions - Abstract
Copyright of Substance Use & Misuse is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2011
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
48. Effects of non-aqueous fluids-associated drill cuttings discharge on shelf break macrobenthic communities in the Campos Basin, Brazil.
- Author
-
Santos, Maria Fernanda L., Silva, Janete, Fachel, Jandyra M. G., and Pulgati, Fernando H.
- Subjects
FLUIDS ,ANIMALS ,DRILLING & boring ,ANALYSIS of variance ,BAYESIAN analysis ,ECOLOGICAL succession - Abstract
This paper assesses the effects of non-aqueous fluids (NAF)-associated drill cuttings discharge on shelf break macrobenthic communities in the Campos Basin, off the southeast Brazilian coast, Rio de Janeiro State. Samples were taken with a 0.25-m
2 box corer from surrounding two oil and gas wells on three monitoring cruises: before drilling, three months after drilling, and 22 months after drilling. Statistical methodologies used Bayesian geostatistical and analysis of variance models to evaluate the effects of the NAF-associated drill cuttings discharge and to define the impact area. The results indicated that marked variations were not observed in the number of families between cruises, though there were changes in the fauna composition. The changes seen in biological descriptors in both control and background situation areas were not considered significant, showing a temporal homogeneity in means. The impact area presented changes in biological descriptors of communities and trophic structure during the three cruises and such changes were correlated to chemical and physical variables related to the drilling activities, as a result of the mix of drill cuttings and sediment and the anoxic conditions established in the substrate. In that area, three months after drilling, a decrease in diversity and an increase in density, motile deposit-feeders and Pol/Crp ratio, and dominance of opportunistic organisms, such as the capitellid Capitella sp., were observed and, 22 months after drilling, an increase of diversity, reduction of dominance of capitellid polychaete, changes in the fauna composition, and a dominance of opportunistic burrowing and tube-building organisms were observed, indicating an ecological succession process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2010
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
49. Vulnerability to STIs/HIV: sociability and the life trajectories of young women who have sex with women in Rio de Janeiro.
- Author
-
Mora, Claudia and Monteiro, Simone
- Subjects
HIV-positive women ,LESBIANS ,HIV infections ,YOUNG women ,GENDER identity ,HOMOSEXUALITY - Abstract
Copyright of Culture, Health & Sexuality is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Published
- 2010
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
50. NETWORKS OF PRACTICE AS HETEROGENEOUS ACTOR-NETWORKS.
- Author
-
Takhteyev, Yuri
- Subjects
COMMUNITIES of practice ,HETEROGENEITY ,ACTOR-network theory ,COMPUTER software development - Abstract
This paper discusses some of the difficulties involved in using the concepts of 'communities of practice' and 'networks of practice' when understanding the exchange of knowledge among globally dispersed communities of professionals. It proposes rethinking 'networks of practice' as heterogeneous networks in the sense used by the actor-network theory. The revised concept is illustrated with examples from the author's study of software developers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and their ties to global technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2009
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
Discovery Service for Jio Institute Digital Library
For full access to our library's resources, please sign in.