To many of those unfamiliar with them, Rio de Janeiro’s favelas—dense urban settlements of cheap, sometimes illegally built dwellings and shops—are objects of fear and curiosity. Outsiders associate these neighborhoods with extreme poverty, drugs and crime, and rarely visit, though they housenear...
3. Researching disaster chronopolitics in Rio de Janeiro 4. Understanding favela removal and ‘retroactivity’ in Rio de Janeiro 5. Housing dispossession, anticipation, and the chronopolitics of disaster 6. ‘Memory is not removed’: subaltern temporalities, trauma time and resistance 7. Conclusion ...
The data on these 750 people and their communities provided the basis for my doctoral dissertation, "The Impact of Urban Experience," and after follow-up work in 1973, the research was also incorporated into my book, The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro. ...