Postcards from Rio: Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship - Softcover

Bezerra, Kátia Da Costa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823276554 ISBN 13: 9780823276554

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.

By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa Bezerra illustrates how citizens of favelas are reshaping their sense of belonging as subjects and as a legitimate part of the city. A groundbreaking study that examines more deeply the relationship between urban space, citizenship, and imagery originating in the favelas, Postcards from Rio sheds crucial light on how contemporary lenses are defining and mediating the meanings of space and citizenship as strategies of empowerment. The city emerges as a political space where multiplicities of perspectives are intertwined with demands for more inclusive forms of governance.

About this title

About the Author

Kátia da Costa Bezerra, Ph.D., is Professor and associate head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. She has published in major journals and is a member of the Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World and The Rocky Mountain Review editorial boards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823276554
• ISBN 13: 9780823276554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208