Journal Article
Becoming Favela
When urban renewal produces slums
Illustration © Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
The publication examines a large-scale urban development project in Salvador, Brazil that involuntarily resettled favela residents to precarious state-built social housing.
The ethnography portrays the negligence of the state, which together with the home improvement practices of the residents, and the labeling of the new social housing as favela — by the long-term neighbors and eventually the residents themselves— co-constituted a socio-spatial process of the housing project becoming favela as an urban form and lived experience.
Regions
Brazil
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Photo/illustration by Jette Mariboe, DIIS
Becoming Favela
Forced Resettlement and Reverse Transitions of Urban Space in Brazil
City & Society, 31, 413-435, 2019