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University of North Carolina Press The Invention of the Favela (Latin America in Translation)

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About the Author Licia do Prado Valladares, retired professor of sociology at Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro, University Candido Mendes, and at University of Lille 1, is now an associate researcher at Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Politicos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.Robert N. Anderson is teaching assistant professor of Portuguese and coordinator of languages across the curriculum at the Center for Global Initiatives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the translator of Brazil: A Century of Change. Product Description For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established―and even attractive and exotic―representation of poverty. The study traces how the term ""favela"" emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals.The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century.

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1469649977
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2019
Listed Since: 08 September 2018

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