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Favela Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio De Janeiro

Perlman, Janice
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780195368369
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
726 gr
Høyde
160 mm
Bredde
236 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
448

Forfatter
Perlman, Janice

Biographical note

Janice Perlman is President and Founder of the Mega-Cities Project. Winner of a Guggenheim Award, she has been Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley, Visiting Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Columbia University, and a Senior Research Scholar at New York University. She lives in Nyack, New York.

Favela Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio De Janeiro

Perlman, Janice
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
Perlman, Janice
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
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This book deserves its broad public reception. No work on informal settlements can compare with the longitudinal breadth of Favela, and in this respect the work is an invaluable achievement.

Alessandro Angelini, CUNY Graduate Center, Social Forces Journal

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

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.
Les mer
A revealing study of the giant squatter settlements 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, Favela offers a powerful look at one of the great challenges facing the modern world.
Les mer
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
Les mer
"Perlman returned repeatedly to the famed slums of Rio de Janeiro to follow four generations of residents over 40 years. She writes with compassion, artistry, and intelligence, using stirring personal stories to illustrate larger points substantiated with statistical analysis." --Foreign Affairs "With a scope that betrays her passion for her subjects, Perlman easily oscillates between narrative and statistical analyses, reporting on touching personal events as well as on larger issues of violence, marginality, and globalization. Perlman is as curious as she is thorough, providing exhaustive research and succeeding in supplying a cohesive and often awing account of the complexities and humanity in Rio's favelas." --The Global Journal "A valuable and vivid study of life as it has been lived by the poor in one of Latin America's biggest cities." --Times Literary Supplement "Janice Perlman is one of the leading researchers on urban marginality, and Favela is an exceptional analysis of the evolution of several originally informal settlement over four decades. I highly recommend it as reading for students, urban practitioners, and policy makers." --Manuel Castells, author of The Information Age "Janice Perlman has written a moving account of her experience over four decades studying, living and working in three of Rio's favelas. This work will appeal to academics--it is full of fine analytical work, as well as to the reader who is concerned with understanding poverty and social justice and how millions in Brazil are trapped by their environment, lack of education and now by crime and violence. While the location of this work is Rio, the lessons and challenges of poverty in big cities is of importance to us all, as the world moves to 2050 when 75% of the population will be in urban areas." --James D. Wolfensohn, Former President, The World Bank "Perlman has produced an excellent, exhaustive study of life in the 1,020 favelas- squatter settlements in Rio de Janeiro..." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review "Enlightening and exceptional." --Library Journal "Perlman seeks to recover stories of people and families with whom she had contact in the late 1960s. As such, her work offers a great contribution, since she incorporates a longitudinal analysis over a long time span... Perlman's narrative is pure delicacy and poetry when she portrays slums as places where friendship, affection, and popular culture prevail." --Contemporary Sociology
Les mer
Selling point: 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 Selling point: Includes a Foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil Selling point: The author's argument and research is utterly original, and should have a major impact on the debates surrounding global urbanization and megacities
Les mer
Janice Perlman is President and Founder of the Mega-Cities Project. She is also the author of The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, which won the C. Wright Mills Award.
Les mer
Selling point: 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 Selling point: Includes a Foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil Selling point: The author's argument and research is utterly original, and should have a major impact on the debates surrounding global urbanization and megacities
Les mer

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This book deserves its broad public reception. No work on informal settlements can compare with the longitudinal breadth of Favela, and in this respect the work is an invaluable achievement.

Alessandro Angelini, CUNY Graduate Center, Social Forces Journal

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

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.
Les mer
A revealing study of the giant squatter settlements 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, Favela offers a powerful look at one of the great challenges facing the modern world.
Les mer
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
Les mer
"Perlman returned repeatedly to the famed slums of Rio de Janeiro to follow four generations of residents over 40 years. She writes with compassion, artistry, and intelligence, using stirring personal stories to illustrate larger points substantiated with statistical analysis." --Foreign Affairs "With a scope that betrays her passion for her subjects, Perlman easily oscillates between narrative and statistical analyses, reporting on touching personal events as well as on larger issues of violence, marginality, and globalization. Perlman is as curious as she is thorough, providing exhaustive research and succeeding in supplying a cohesive and often awing account of the complexities and humanity in Rio's favelas." --The Global Journal "A valuable and vivid study of life as it has been lived by the poor in one of Latin America's biggest cities." --Times Literary Supplement "Janice Perlman is one of the leading researchers on urban marginality, and Favela is an exceptional analysis of the evolution of several originally informal settlement over four decades. I highly recommend it as reading for students, urban practitioners, and policy makers." --Manuel Castells, author of The Information Age "Janice Perlman has written a moving account of her experience over four decades studying, living and working in three of Rio's favelas. This work will appeal to academics--it is full of fine analytical work, as well as to the reader who is concerned with understanding poverty and social justice and how millions in Brazil are trapped by their environment, lack of education and now by crime and violence. While the location of this work is Rio, the lessons and challenges of poverty in big cities is of importance to us all, as the world moves to 2050 when 75% of the population will be in urban areas." --James D. Wolfensohn, Former President, The World Bank "Perlman has produced an excellent, exhaustive study of life in the 1,020 favelas- squatter settlements in Rio de Janeiro..." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review "Enlightening and exceptional." --Library Journal "Perlman seeks to recover stories of people and families with whom she had contact in the late 1960s. As such, her work offers a great contribution, since she incorporates a longitudinal analysis over a long time span... Perlman's narrative is pure delicacy and poetry when she portrays slums as places where friendship, affection, and popular culture prevail." --Contemporary Sociology
Les mer
Selling point: 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 Selling point: Includes a Foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil Selling point: The author's argument and research is utterly original, and should have a major impact on the debates surrounding global urbanization and megacities
Les mer
Janice Perlman is President and Founder of the Mega-Cities Project. She is also the author of The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, which won the C. Wright Mills Award.
Les mer
Selling point: 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 Selling point: Includes a Foreword by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil Selling point: The author's argument and research is utterly original, and should have a major impact on the debates surrounding global urbanization and megacities
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195368369
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
726 gr
Høyde
160 mm
Bredde
236 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
448

Forfatter
Perlman, Janice

Biographical note

Janice Perlman is President and Founder of the Mega-Cities Project. Winner of a Guggenheim Award, she has been Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley, Visiting Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Columbia University, and a Senior Research Scholar at New York University. She lives in Nyack, New York.

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