Favela : four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro /
"... Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had fir...
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011, c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st paperback ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Introduction
- Deep roots in shallow soil
- The world goes to the city
- Catacumba: the favela that was
- Nova Brasília: from favela to complexo
- Duque de Caxias: favelas and loteamentos
- Marginality from myth to reality
- Violence, fear, and loss
- Disillusion with democracy
- The mystery of mobility
- Globalization and the grassroots
- Reflections of public policy
- The importance of being gente
- Appendix : 1. Research methods and challenges ; 2. Analytical framework for assessing success.