A produção de um novo regime discursivo sobre as favelas cariocas e as muitas faces do empreendedorismo de base comunitária

Thinking About (and with) Maps: A Reflection on Artistic-Activist Interventions in Contemporary Metropolises

“…According to recent literature (Haesbaert 2014;Tommasi and Velazco 2011;Vainer 2011), the city of Rio de Janeiro has recently been used as a true "laboratory" for the implementation of all kinds of experiments involving urban policies, military actions, and the development of systems of control and monitoring.…”

Neoliberal Unfoldings of Lulism

“…Certain ethnographic works confirm the diagnosis of these analytical perspectives, illustrating how the Brazilian urban working classes interweave their everyday activities with a neoliberal discourse. The idea that citizenship must be combined with market logic flourished since the social programs financed by large companies present themselves as virtuous and linked to social rights (Abílio, 2011;De Tommasi and Velazco, 2013;Rizek, 2016).…”

“…Since the 1950s, this physiognomy of the subaltern classes has been regarded as a hindrance to Brazilian development: a large stratum of Brazilian population was never 4 For exceptions to this rule, see De Tommasi & Velazco, 2013;Salgado, 2013. 5 According to Braga, there is a significant difference between his concept and Singer"s, since he emphasizes the political forms of mobilization and organization undertaken by the precariat.…”

Transformations in Community Associations and Political Processes in a Rio De Janeiro “Favela”

“…Other processes also called our attention, specifically the entrance of programs, projects and public and private agents dedicated to stimulating what we call "community based entrepreneurship" (Tommasi and Velazco 2013). These events appear to us to reveal something quite significant about the transformations underway: the supposed integration of the needy populations to the city was being realized through incentives to the market, to consumption, access to credit and not through the recognition and enactment of rights that guarantee the "appropriation of the city" (Machado da Silva 2002).…”

“…Thus, despite having participated actively in many meetings and events organized by the Committee, and having spoken with a number of its members, and even having been exclude this portion of our observations and reflections from the research material that we worked with to prepare some earlier texts (Tommasi & Velazco 2013;Tommasi, 2014b). We, researchers from the outside, decided at that time to not present the difficulties, conflicts, ambiguities and impasses that appeared to us to characterize relations among the local political actors.…”