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Favela
Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio De Janeiro
Janice Perlman and Foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso
444 pages
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97 black and white halftones, 5 line illustrations
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234x155mm
978-0-19-536836-9
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Hardback
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03 June 2010
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- A well researched and insightful account of the vast squatter settlements in Rio, written by the leading authority on the subject
- The book which this builds on, The Myth of Marginality, is one of the most important books in global urban studies in the past 30 years
- The author's argument and research is utterly original, and should have a major impact on the debates surrounding global urbanization and megacities
- Recent titles on the same topic - Robert Neuwirth's Shadow Cities (Routledge, 2004) and Mike Davis' Planet of Slums (Verso, 2006) have far exceeded sales expectations. There is a real hunger for good work on this subject, which is - after all - one of the most important global social developments in the past quarter century
A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth.
Janice Perlman's award-winning The Myth of Marginality was the first in-depth account of
life in the favelas, and it is considered one of the most important books in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969—as well as their children and grandchildren—Perlman offers the only long-term perspective available on the favelados as they struggle for a better life. Perlman discovers that much has changed in three decades, but while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel marginalized more than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Almost one in five people report
that a member of their family has been a victim of homicide. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation—decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts—from housing to policing to community development—will fail to resolve the fundamental issues.
A revealing study of the giant slums of Rio de Janeiro and of the vibrant communities of migrants who have risked everything to come to the city to provide more opportunities for their children, this book yields insights that apply to the entire global South, from Mexico City to Cairo, and from Mumbai to Lagos. Favela offers a powerful, long-term look at one of the great challenges facing the modern world—perhaps the major challenge of the
twenty-first century.Readership: General and scholarly, undergrad and graduate level courses in urban studies, urban anthropology, Latin American studies, urban history, global studies; sociology of development
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Janice Perlman, President and Founder, Mega-Cities Project, and Foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Former President of Brazil
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"a valuable and vivid study of life as it has been lived by the poor in one of Latin America's biggest cities." - Michael Reid, Times Literary Supplement "in the late 1960s ... Ms Perlman and her team completed a study of 750 people. The book that came out of this, The Myth of Marginality (1976), argued that far from being a cancerous growth that was harming the city, favela dwellers actually kept the place going, by doing all of the low-income jobs that a city needs to get done.
Earlier this decade Ms Perlman went back and tried to track down as many of the original participants as she could, to see how they had fared. She managed to find just over 40% of the original study group Her findings were surprising. More than half of the original study group had moved out of the favelas, suggesting they are not the dead-end that many people suppose. In general, Ms Perlman finds far more social mobility than the reams of favela studies would suggest." - Muchacho Fermier, The Economist
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Preface
INTRODUCTION
1.: DEEP ROOTS IN SHALLOW SOIL
2.: THE WORLD GOES TO THE CITY
3.: CATACUMBA to CONJUNTOS
4.: NOVA BRASILIA to COMPLEXO de ALEMAO
5.: DUQUE de CAXIAS: FAVELAS AND SUB-DIVISIONS
6.: MARGINALITY FROM MYTH TO REALITY
7.: VIOLENCE, FEAR AND LOSS
8.: : DISILLUSION WITH DEMOCRACY
9.: THE MYSTERY OF MOBILITY
10.: GLOBALIZATION AND THE GRASSROOTS
11.: REFLECTIONS ON POLICY
12.: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GENTE
Appendix I: Methods and Challenges
Appendix II: Analytical Framework
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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