Praças, Place, and Public Life in Urban Brazil

Curtis, James R.

doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2000.tb00350.x

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“…Geographers have explored places in relation to the accessibility of certain zones, gender and racial framing, property relations, community sustainability, resistance of spatial change and place‐claiming movements, among other related themes (e.g. Curtis ; Gornostaeva ; Marsden ; Taylor ). According to John Agnew, the different meanings of place can be summarised under the expressions “place as location” (a point on the Earth's surface), “sense of place” (subjective feelings) and “place as locale” (a setting for actions and interactions) (1987).…”

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Places of Agribusiness: Displacement, Replacement, and Misplacement in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Ioris

2017

Geographical Review

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This article investigates the spatial logic and different moments of place‐making during the expansion of Mato Grosso's agribusiness frontier, in the southern section of the Brazilian Amazon. The analysis is informed by three conceptual concerns: the tensions between representation and experience, between humanist and class‐based explanations, and between the intensity of place‐making and place‐framing. Empirical results from a qualitative case study (carried out between 2013–2015, when agribusiness was the undisputed locomotive of the Brazilian economy) demonstrate that socio‐spatial changes in the last four decades evolved due to the complementary pressures and controversies of displacement (particularly in the 1970s–1980s) and replacement (in the 1990s–2000s), which eventually resulted in the widespread sense of misplacement due to accumulated inequalities and entrenched forms of socioeconomic exclusion. The principal conclusion found that the places dominated by agribusiness in Mato Grosso evolved around a totalizing spatial strategy that undermined alternative forms of production and livelihoods that do not fit in the export‐oriented agricultural model.

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Section: Placing Mato Grosso's Agribusiness Frontiermentioning

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Places of Agribusiness: Displacement, Replacement, and Misplacement in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Ioris

2017

Geographical Review

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“…Without doubt, such cultural practices played a key role in the historical production of public spaces in Brazil, which were shaped by social and artistic movements and marginalized populations through the staging of the repressed Afro-Brazilian rituals of Candomblé and Umbanda, gatherings of slaves, and black festivals such as carnival and capoeira (Curtis 2000;Ortiz 2000). These kind of practices continue to significantly impact urban space today, and in some cases urban development.…”

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Theatre City: On Design in the Interplay of Social and Material Space (Teatro Oficina, Bixiga, São Paulo)

Stevens

2015

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Cultural mapping reflects a spatial turn broadly taken in related areas of urban studies, all of which, in different ways, care about the interaction between social and material space. This article will contribute to this emerging interdisciplinary field by exploring applications of cultural mapping as tools for more inclusive forms of urbanism. The main argument holds that particular forms of cultural mapping can help bridge certain constraints of ethnographic methodologies of social sciences, on one hand, and spatial analysis and design methodologies, on the other hand, as they can operate in the same interstices of social and material space. This article is the result of a three-year and ongoing collaboration between the Research Group on Urbanism and Architecture of the University of Leuven and theatre company Teatro Oficina, located on a highly contested urban site in São Paulo’s central neighbourhood of Bixiga, which for thirty years has been part and parcel of a Lute Urbaine (‘urban battle’) between the cultural group and a major real estate development firm. Both the theatre building and the surrounding terrain present themselves as pars-pro-toto for a theatrical city paradigm, offering insights on the dialectic vicissitudes of socio-cultural actions vis-à-vis the material transformation of the city.Keywords: urban activism, participatory urban design, modernism, urban stage, theatre cultureRésumé: La cartographie culturelle reflète un tournant spatial dans le champ des études urbaines et disciplines associées qui sont à tout le moins toutes concernées par les interactions entre les espaces sociaux et les espaces matériels. Cet article tente d’apporter une contribution à ce débat interdisciplinaire en explorant les applications de la cartographie culturelle dans le cadre des projets d’urbanisme participatif, voire d’urbanisme plus socialement inclusif. Certaines formes de cartographie culturelle peuvent permettre de répondre à certaines contraintes émanant des méthodologies ethnographiques en sciences sociales et ce, en comblant les lacunes découlant de la rencontre des espaces sociaux et matériels. Les résultats de cet article découlent de trois années de collaboration entre le Research Group on Urbanism and Architecture de l’Université de Leuven et le Teatro Oficina, situé dans un espace contesté du quartier Bixiga, au coeur de São Paulo. Ce quartier en question a été au coeur de plusieurs luttes urbaines (Lute Urbaine) entre groups sociaux culturels et promotteurs immobiliers. L’immeuble du théâtre et ses environs se présent en tant que pars-pro-toto pour le paradigme de la ville théâtrale, offrant des points des perspectives sur la dialectique de l’action culturelle vis-à-vis la transformation matérielle de la ville.Mots clé: l’activisme urbain, dessin urbain participative, modernism, scène urbaine, culture théâtrale

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The Street Is Ours

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Praças, Place, and Public Life in Urban Brazil

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Places of Agribusiness: Displacement, Replacement, and Misplacement in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Places of Agribusiness: Displacement, Replacement, and Misplacement in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Theatre City: On Design in the Interplay of Social and Material Space (Teatro Oficina, Bixiga, São Paulo)

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