Creating the Image of a Modern Fortaleza

Gondim, Linda Maria de Pontes

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“…Although international media reports and popular culture promote Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia, or São Paulo as exotic tourism destinations, in the past years, a new city appeared in reports and news about Brazil: Fortaleza. The investment in tourism since the 1980s (Belmino, 2018 ) opened the city of Fortaleza up to a global flow of tourists and a new set of problems (Gondim and Hallewell, 2004 ). Sílvia Helena Belmino's ( 2018 ) study on the transformation of Fortaleza from a place of misery and capital of drought into an exotic tourist destination describes this strategy as part of a larger political and marketing project initiated under Brazil's last years of dictatorship.…”

Section: New Paths Of the Drug Trade And Urban Fracturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil

Mandache

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant narratives presented in the media and political discourses about their neighborhood as being poor and therefore violent. By establishing relationships of mutual trust with gang members and humanizing them, women activists “challenge the logic of fear” and maintain presence in areas controlled by the gangs to direct the economically vulnerable toward existing public resources. Activists’ understanding of urban violence is informed by participation in collective action and living together with gang members and their families. These experiences lead activists to see urban violence as the symptom of systemic inequalities that require systemic changes.

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Section: New Paths Of the Drug Trade And Urban Fracturesmentioning

confidence: 99%