URBAN CELEBRATION IN A BRAZILIAN FAVELA: From an Art Festival to a Youth Movement

Abstract

and the entire Fazendinhando crew for their friendship and for being an ongoing source of inspiration. I am also grateful to my PhD committee member Kenneth Roberts for his critical comments on an earlier draft of this article, to my PhD advisor Victoria Beard for her guidance in later stages of this work, and to the editors and anonymous reviewers of IJURR for believing in this project and helping me to sharpen my theoretical contribution. Lastly, I would like to thank MIT MISTI Brazil and Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar for the funding to carry out fieldwork in São Paulo in 2018, and to Fundación La Caixa in Spain for their support to undertake my planning studies abroad.

EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology

“…The centrality of women's leadership in community life is not unique to the favelas, and many recent accounts from Latin America, including Brazil, tend to show this (see e.g. Perry, 2013; Alves, 2014; Moya‐Latorre, 2022; Novoa, 2022). Women—especially women from marginalized, peripheral and/or racialized communities—are fundamental actors who create, sustain and multiply initiatives, movements, networks and organizations that are gradually making their favelas—and their city as a whole—livable, even when they do not state this as a goal, or when their efforts remain mostly at an ‘infrapolitical’ level (Veillette and Anctil Avoine, 2019; Veillette, 2021).…”