25 de July de 2018
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Right to the City, Social Inequality, Unequal Development
Right to the City in Favelas
Right to the City in Favelas
In general, the cities of the BRICS and global South, although profoundly different from each other and full of specificities, share an essential feature. Cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg or Mumbai, among many others, are at high levels of socio-spatial inequalities. Favelas, beyond any definition, are, for the most part, the results of the long-lasting processes that have resulted in the spatialization of these inequalities. They are spaces often marginalized and criminalized or even, as in the current situation in Rio de Janeiro, militarized.
This project, funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, seeks to understand how, in favela regions in the city and metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, public authorities fulfill their constitutional obligations to ensure that all its citizens experience the city as spaces of citizenship and rights. The first research conducted under this project, carried out in partnership with the Coletivo Papo Reto, sought to analyze the scenario of urban mobility in the favelas of Complexo do Alemão, one of the largest slum complexes in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The result was the publication “Nobody enters, Nobody Leave: Right to the City and urban mobility in Complexo do Alemão.”
We are currently working in partnership with the organization Casa Fluminense on the second research of this project, which focuses on public policies for areas suffering from floods in the city and metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. The publication is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2018.