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Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Duke University Press, 2013 Paper: 978-0-8223-5538-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-7734-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-5523-6 Library of Congress Classification HC189.R4M39 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.56909815309
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions—such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment—that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ambitious slate of municipal reforms. Those measures ultimately fell short of aspirations, and soon the reformers were struggling to hold together a fraying coalition. Rio was bankrupted by natural disasters and hyperinflation and ravaged by drug wars. Well-armed drug traffickers had become the new lords of the favelas, protecting their turf through violence and patronage. By the early 1990s, the promise of the favela residents' mobilization of the late 1970s and early 1980s seemed out of reach. Yet the aspirations that fueled that mobilization have endured, and its legacy continues to shape favela politics in Rio de Janeiro. See other books on: Dictatorship | Hard Times | Poor | Rio de Janeiro | Slums See other titles from Duke University Press |
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Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 2013
Paper: 978-0-8223-5538-0
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7734-4
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5523-6
Paper: 978-0-8223-5538-0
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7734-4
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5523-6
Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions—such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment—that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ambitious slate of municipal reforms. Those measures ultimately fell short of aspirations, and soon the reformers were struggling to hold together a fraying coalition. Rio was bankrupted by natural disasters and hyperinflation and ravaged by drug wars. Well-armed drug traffickers had become the new lords of the favelas, protecting their turf through violence and patronage. By the early 1990s, the promise of the favela residents' mobilization of the late 1970s and early 1980s seemed out of reach. Yet the aspirations that fueled that mobilization have endured, and its legacy continues to shape favela politics in Rio de Janeiro.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
