More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as 'slums', are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within societ…
Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "More than half of the world now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as 'slums', are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive …
More than half of the world now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as 'slums', are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality…
More than half of the world now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as 'slums', are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality…
Repairing the broken city -- Community technology centers as mundane technologies -- Social media for survival -- Proud faveladas : resisting gendered oppression in territory of good -- Geographies of oppression : uncovering spaces of silencing -- Technology of the oppressor -- …
"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--
"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--
"Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions-such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment-that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement …
This history explains how and why the favelas of Rio de Janeiro were able to resist demolition in the 1970s but succumbed to the drug wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
This history explains how and why the favelas of Rio de Janeiro were able to resist demolition in the 1970s but succumbed to the drug wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
"Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions - such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employemnt - that seperated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movem…
