Hard Times in the Marvelous City : From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio De Janeiro

McCann, Bryan

Duke University Press（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822355380
• DDC分類 307.3364098153

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Big Picture 19
2. Mobilization 43
3. Reform 77
4. The Breaking Point 121
5. The Unraveling 159
Epilogue 181
Notes 199
Bibliography 227
Index 243