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Item An ethnographic account of Minha Casa Minha Vida’s affordable housing policy(2023-07-27) Bechtlufft Cardoso, Matheus; Sletto, BjørnThis research aims to shine light into one of Brazil’s most influential affordable housing policies. In the research, I explore how successful the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program is when comparing apartment complexes in states where the access to resources and capital is drastically different. This is done by visiting three apartment complexes, those being one in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Jacarepagua and two in the city of Macapa (Jardim Acucena and Macapaba), where I attempt to find overlapping themes among the three developments that can be used to suggest whether the program is successful at attending the different needs of different states, or if the program is following one formula regardless of the location. This is done by interviews with current and formal residents of the program where experiences shared can aid with the understanding of the successes and shortcoming of a nationwide standardized affordable housing programItem Experiencing violence : children and the marginalized urban space of the Brazilian favela(2012-08) Sertzen, Pamela Katia; Torres, Rebecca Maria; Adams, Paul C.; Leu, LorraineThis research examines the transformations occurring in children and youth’s identity narratives as they engage dialectically with the recent public narratives of social and political inclusion. Employing children’s experiences of the favela, this thesis explores children’s ontological narratives as part of a place-based identity constructed within the public narratives of Rio de Janeiro. A range of public narratives are constituted and socially constructed by the state, media and culture industries. However, cultural, social and economic narratives from non-governmental organizations based in favelas have emerged as counter-production to the mainstream public narratives. This work captures the intersections of these narratives in children’s lives through empirical research in a favela in Rio de Janeiro using participant observation, a mini questionnaire, and photo-voice technique with children aged 10-13. It provides insight into the ways in which children face every-day boundaries enforced by relationships at the individual, the community, and the city levels. The findings show that children are caught in a web of disorder that is strongly influenced by both traffickers and the state, which contributes to their continued social exclusion from formal city space.Item Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Helen Yenne on 1954-11-02(1954-11-02) Yenne, HelenItem Matrizes - Música Popular No Início Do Século XIX No Rio de Janeiro(2008-01) de Ulhôa, Martha TupinambáEste texto relata parte dos resultados de pesquisa desenvolvida desde 2001 sobre as Matrizes Culturais e Musicais da Música Brasileira Popular. É significativo que tais resultados sejam apresentados no Departamento de Música da Universidade do Texas em Austin, que tem desempenhado um papel importante para os estudos da música latino-americana, principalmente pela atuação do nosso saudoso Gerard Béhague e também pela existência do fórum de divulgação de pesquisas tão respeitado na área que é o periódico Latin American Music Review (LAMR).Item Research (ing/in) state genocide : toward an activist and Black diasporic feminist approach(2010-05) Rocha, Luciane de Oliveira; Gordon, Edmund Tayloe; Hale, Charles R.Homicide deaths are a common reality in Brazil. Every year, approximately 50,000 people die from this violent crime. Between January 2009 and February 2010, 7,936 people were killed just on the state of Rio de Janeiro. Of this amount, 1,185 were committed by the police, not including the number of disappeared people in this state, came up to 6,379. This report seeks to address the political and analytical challenges of understanding and redressing the negative impacts of state policies and everyday practices, especially violence, on Black Brazilians, particularly disadvantaged Black women, through a revision of relevant scholarship. I first draw attention to three distinct approaches of violence of the state of Rio de Janeiro, and on Black people’s resistance practice. Second, I connect Rio de Janeiro’s practices of state violence with contemporary and historical experiences of racial terror in the African Diaspora through policing Black youth and Black communities, imprisonment, and violence against Black women. And finally, I theorize on the relevance of my work to Black feminism, African Diaspora, and activist theories addressing the politics of fieldwork and the impact of the research on that experience. The knowledge apprehended through this report contributes to my own and further research on state violence against Black people in Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora.Item Shooting the Morro : favela documentaries and the politics of meaning(2013-05) Stoner, Spencer Winston; Leu, LorraineTo many in the global North, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro are the most visible face of violence and poverty in Brazil. While the favela film genre (and its subset, the favela documentary) has received significant study, there is a gap in understanding how these filmic texts are created as a result of individual production processes. How do decisions made during the course of production translate into imaginaries, representations, and on-screen content? This research locates multiple forms of non- fiction video within the wider context of mediated representations of poverty and violence in favelas, identifying the tools, mechanisms, and specific tactics employed by both favela stakeholders and production personnel in the co-production of these often heavily-mediated images. Utilizing key informant interviews with Rio-based documentary production personnel actively shooting in favelas, this research highlights specific production processes to understand how implicit incentive structures embodied in production shape and influence representations of the favela space. These findings make the case for understanding non-fiction favela films as the product of a highly structured and nuanced, if asymmetrical, co-production between filmmaker and subjects, rather than a simple linear imposition of meaning from above. These results suggest that the combination of individual production strategies with ongoing changes within the city related to “pacification” serves to simultaneously undermine and re-inscribe traditional imaginaries and mediatic geographies of the favela space.Item Ta Ligado 1: Historia e Influencia(2014) Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica Natalia; Orta, Jonathon DavidIn this first webisode of Ta Ligado: Rodas e Hip Hop no Rio, Brazilian Zulu Nation members set up the historical scene for hip hop in Brazil in order to get a broader understanding of today's movement.Item Ta Ligado 2: Zona Oeste(2014) Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica Natalia; Orta, Jonathon DavidZona Oeste focuses on Rio’s west side budding hip hop scene. Given that zona oeste is often marginalized from the rest of the city, it has created a hip hop community based on resistance and family. Locations: Bangu e Realengo. Featured Organizations: Caixa de Surpresa and Espaço Cultural Viaduto de Realengo.Item Ta Ligado 3: Mulheres no Mic(2014) Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica Natalia; Orta, Jonathon DavidLike in the rest of the world, women have always been marginalized and stereotyped in most movements in capitalist and patriarchal societies. Their presence is an act of resistance and gives voices to those silenced. Mulheres no Mic is a webisode dedicated to the women in the carioca hip hop movement and discusses their experiences as cultural mediators.Item Ta Ligado 4: Baixada Fluminese(2014) Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica Natalia; Orta, Jonathon DavidBaixada Fluminese ta longe de tudo, is far from everything. It is a place in Rio’s periphery that has been historically excluded from its political, economical and social realm. We interview members of the BF hip hop scene and they tell us their story on their militant stance on hip hop and always keeping it real both in public plazas and in NGO’s. Locations: Morro Agudo e Duque de Caxias. Featured Organizations: Movimento Enraizados and Cypher na Rua.Item Ta Ligado : rodas e hip hop no Rio(2015-05) Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica Natalia; Vargas, João Helion Costa; Leu, LorraineGiven that hip-hop has its origin in communal sharing and resistance, how do spaces of urban art empower young people and build their identities to reclaim space? Ta Ligado: Rodas e Hip Hop no Rio is a short documentary-styled web series focusing on hip hop and urban art spaces for young people in Rio de Janeiro, a city with rapid urbanization and increased marginalization. Rio presents an understudied context to explore how youth respond to changes in urban conditions and public institutional support or lack thereof. Especially as a city being placed under the international microscope because of the recent 2014 World Cup and upcoming 2016 World Olympics and the politics it has with its displacement and invisibilization of communities. Youth organizations and hip hop events in Rio de Janeiro serve as an alternative outlet to address the social issues that are ignored and marginalized through reclaiming space. Ta Ligado captures the vibrant and diverse culture through interviews and community events that occurred during the summer of 2014.Item Taking the lid off the Black Rio movement and música soul : the shifting terms of race and citizenship in Rio de Janeiro(2014-12) Olsen, Sandra Lea; Moore, Robin D., 1964-In this project, I situate the Black Rio movement and Brazilian música soul within a history of representations of black Brazilian masculinities in music. I do so in order to trace changing conceptualizations of race and citizenship in 1970s Rio de Janeiro. I seek to move beyond the existing literature which judges the Black Rio movement on its political expediency while ignoring its historico-cultural context. That is, prior works tend to pit black soul musicians and dancers against the mostly-white, middle-class intellectuals who have historically made determinations about black Brazilians, and in doing so these works have judged the Black Rio movement a political failure. Instead, I focus on the agency asserted by black Brazilian musicians and dancers in representing themselves and in creating alternative places for the enactment of their identities in opposition to the normative expectations of Blackness and standards of masculinity. Beginning in the 1920s and the 1930s, expectations for black masculine behavior were tied to restrictive, demeaning representations of the malandro in samba music and of afrobrasilidade in Carnaval celebrations. These representations were influenced by changing attitudes towards race in the context of national consolidation and the propagation of the myth of racial democracy, which recognized racial difference while not recognizing extant racial inequality. Entrenched modes of thinking and normative modes of being were adamantly challenged by soul musicians and dancers in the 1970s. Through the adoption of U.S. funk and soul music and strong masculine imagery associated with the Black Power movement, black Brazilians appropriated and resignified international symbols in order to forge a new black identity. In doing so, soul musicians and dancers carved alternative spaces for themselves, and renegotiated the terms of their inclusion in the Brazilian nation. This paper considers the shifting place of Blackness in Brazil through an analysis of visual, aural and lyrical representations of Blackness in music and in the critical reception of that music. I argue that funk and soul music played a key role in destabilizing the restrictive notion of afrobrasilidade held by mainstream Brazilian society, enabling new ways of being both black and Brazilian.Item "We have to be alive in order to marry": Black LGBTT Youth and Geographies of Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil(2016-04-01) Oliver, Devin Antuan