scholarly journals The Precarious Present: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Millar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Relational Autonomy ◽  
Garbage Dump ◽  
Labor Condition ◽  
Real Work ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article explores the relationship between precarity as a labor condition and precarity as an ontological experience in the lives of urban poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The focus is on a garbage dump on the outskirts of the city where thousands of Rio’s poor, known as catadores, reclaim recyclables for a living. Attending to cyclic moments in which these workers leave the dump for other jobs and then return, I explore how everyday emergencies in Rio’s periphery often clash with the rigid conditions of regular, wage-labor employment. These comings and goings of catadores result from a tension between the desire for “real” work and the desire for what I describe as relational autonomy, made possible by the conditions of wageless work. The article considers how specific histories and experiences of capitalism in the global South differentially shape the articulation of precarious labor with precarious life. I conclude by suggesting that the returns of catadores to the dump do not signal an end for Rio’s poor, but rather constitute a politics of detachment that enables life to be lived in fragile times.

scholarly journals Temporal analysis of the relationship between dengue and meteorological variables in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001-2009

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 2189-2197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Fagundes Gomes ◽  
Aline Araújo Nobre ◽  
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Temperature ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Distribution ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Dengue, a reemerging disease, is one of the most important viral diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. Climate is considered an important factor in the temporal and spatial distribution of vector-transmitted diseases. This study examined the effect of seasonal factors and the relationship between climatic variables and dengue risk in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2001 to 2009. Generalized linear models were used, with Poisson and negative binomial distributions. The best fitted model was the one with "minimum temperature" and "precipitation", both lagged by one month, controlled for "year". In that model, a 1°C increase in a month's minimum temperature led to a 45% increase in dengue cases in the following month, while a 10-millimeter rise in precipitation led to a 6% increase in dengue cases in the following month. Dengue transmission involves many factors: although still not fully understood, climate is a critical factor, since it facilitates analysis of the risk of epidemics.

scholarly journals Profiles and Developmental Goals in Different Families of Rio de Janeiro

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Fontes Pessôa ◽  
Dandara Ramos ◽  
Lenise Vivas
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Abstract The study of child development goals has been of interest in psychology for decades, however, little is known about the goals of non-nuclear families. The objective of this study was to analyze inter and intragroup differences in the profiles of autonomy, interdependence and related autonomy of couples in different family arrangements in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as to investigate the association of these profiles with the development goals they have for their families’ children. Fathers and mothers of children up to two years old were interviewed in 50 families (10 single-parent, 20 reconstituted and 20 nuclear). The results indicated an association between the autonomy and valorization of heteronomy goals in reconstituted families and higher interdependence scores in non-nuclear families. It is concluded that the family configuration can influence the relationship between autonomy and goals, and that the autonomy trajectories vary between family arrangements.

scholarly journals Braiding stories, singing memories: narratives and displacements of a refugee woman

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Júlia Motta
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Refugee Woman ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
New City ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Using ethnography and a research methodology developed for this research project, this article sets out to describe the trajectories of a female refugee and the relationship she has established with her new city of residence. Ruth was born in Angola, but grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is 35 years old and has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 2014. She has three children and works as an actress and singer. She reconnects to her roots and reinvents herself in the new territory through spending time with Congolese women in a market in Madureira and in an evangelical church in Brás de Pina. The methodology, using photos, drawings and objects, reveals the experiences of a Black refugee woman in the city where she has come to live. The article intends to reflect on the way these women have reinvented themselves based on the place of the frontier and how they have given different meanings to their identities in their new place.

scholarly journals Epistemic injustice, risk mapping and climatic events: analysing epistemic resistance in the context of favela removal in Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Luciana Mendes Barbosa ◽  
Gordon Walker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Risk Mapping ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Epistemic Justice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Abstract. Environmental and climate justice scholarship has increasingly focused on how knowledge and expertise play into the production of injustice and into strategies of resistance and activist claim making. We consider the epistemic injustice at work within the practices of risk mapping and assessment applied in Rio de Janeiro to justify the clearance of favela communities. We trace how in the wake of landslides in 2010, the city authorities moved towards a removal policy justified in the name of protecting lives and becoming resilient to climate change. We examine how favela dwellers, activists and counter-experts joined efforts to develop a partially successful epistemic resistance that contested the knowledge on which this policy was based. We use this case to reflect on the situated character of both technologies of risk and the emergence of epistemic resistance, on the relationship between procedural and epistemic justice, and on the challenges for instilling more just climate adaptation strategies.

scholarly journals Petrographic Study of Silica-rich Continental Carbonates from São José de Itaboraí Basin (Brazil)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-228
Author(s):  
Brenda Da Silva Valente ◽  
Gustavo Do Couto Ramos Pereira ◽  
Emiliano Castro Oliveira ◽  
Sergio Bergamaschi
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
Complete Replacement ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
Depositional Processes ◽  
Carbonate Material ◽  
Continental Carbonates ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

São José de Itaboraí Basin (SJIB) is located in the city of Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil), at about 60 km from the Rio de Janeiro city. Despite the small size area, about 1.5 km2, this basin represents an important source of scientific knowledge, due to the occurrence of banded carbonates and exuberant fossil assemblages. In the last decade, following the discovery of massive carbonates in South Atlantic Ocean, this basin has attracted the attention due to the presence of continental carbonates, in the form of travertines which are included the Itaboraí Formation. The SJIB carbonate rocks have been recognized as possible analogues of the pre-salt reservoir rocks or at least, similar in their depositional processes. The SJIB travertines were submitted to some diagenetic influence due to the presence of silica rich fluids, similar to that found in pre-salt carbonates. The present research aims to perform a petrographic analysis regarding the silica-rich travertine facies, and to recognize textures and structures in order to provide a better understanding of the relationship between silica and carbonate. The deposits associated with silica are easily characterized by their reddish/brown coloring and their higher resistance, due to the presence of iron oxide and silica replacing the carbonate. In some extreme cases can occur the complete substitution of the carbonate fabric generating silex materials. The relationship between silica and iron oxide/carbonate allowed the development of different structures as the banding formation, probably due to mineralogical and rheological differences during recrystallization. In some regions where the diagenetic process was more intense it could be noticed a complete replacement of the primary carbonate material. While, in other cases, the diagenesis preserved structures and past textures, such as iron oxide mouldic features.

scholarly journals Temporal Analysis of the Relationship between Leptospirosis and Occurrence of Flooding Rains in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007–12.

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. i289-i290
Author(s):  
R. M. Guimarães ◽  
O. G. Cruz ◽  
V. G. Parreira ◽  
M. L. Mazoto ◽  
J. D. Vieira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Urban informality as a signifier: Performing urban reordering in suburban Rio de Janeiro

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank I Müller
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
The Relationship

Urban informality is typically ascribed to the urban poor in cities of the Global South. Drawing on Judith Butler’s concept of performativity and taking the case of Rio de Janeiro in the context of the 2016 Olympic Games, this article conceptualizes informality as a signifier and a procedural, relational category. Specifically, it shows how different class actors have employed the signifier informality (1) to legitimize the confinement of marginalized populations; (2) to justify the organized efforts of the upper middle class to protect their ‘self-enclosed’ gated communities; and (3) to warrant the formation of opposition and alliances between inhabitants, activists, and researchers on the edges of the urban order. This article offers new perspectives to better understand the relationship between informality and confinement by examining the active role that inhabitants of marginalized settlements assume in the Olympic City.

scholarly journals Use of fleuriet model for forecasting and evaluating municipal electoral results in a brazilian state

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Vinicius Pontes Bastos
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Dummy Variable ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Objective: Verify the relation between the variables in the Fleuriet model and the electoral result given by the exchange or maintenance of the party of the prefectures under analysis. Methodology: Through logistic regression it is possible to explain or predict the probability of the occurrence of the event under analysis, such event discussed here refers to the exchange of the party, which is a dummy variable that assumes a value of 1 when there is an exchange and zero otherwise, the method of estimation used to obtain the coefficients was based on maximum likelihood. Results: The relationship between the variables of the Fleuriet model and the electoral result given by the exchange or maintenance of the party in the prefectures of the group under analysis. Limitation or implication of the research: It is noteworthy that such research does not allow generalizations, being a study with reduced scope considering only the city halls of the State of Rio de Janeiro that have financial information disclosed. Originality: showing that city halls with better financial situation tend not to change the party, which was observed in the group under analysis considering the election event in 2020.

scholarly journals Apontamentos sobre a Maré: uma compreensão

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Julieta Nunes de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Space Forms ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Low Rate

Em quadro marcado pelo fim da política de erradicação de favelas e permanência de moradores em assentamentos de baixa renda localizados em áreas próximas e disputadas dos centros urbanos das grandes cidades do país, aprimoram-se estratégias espaciais para lidar com estas desconfortantes proximidades. Este texto pretende explorar formas espaciais e dispositivos arquitetônicos e territoriais consolidados em nossa realidade, que tratam da incômoda presença de bolsões de pobreza inseridos em importantes áreas das cidades. Traduzem-se em mecanismos de afastamento, invisibilização, distanciamento, confinamento e isolamento dessas áreas em relação aos bairros vizinhos. A sistematização destes padrões apontados pela literatura envolvendo realidades de outras cidades se deu a partir da observação das relações do bairro da Maré (Rio de Janeiro) com suas áreas de entorno, a partir de aportes microfísicos durante os anos de expansão, reformulando seu papel e importância no contexto da cidade.Palavras-chave: favelas; áreas periféricas; segregação espacial; projetos urbanos. Abstract: In picture marked for the end of politics of eradication of slums and the permanence of inhabitants in low rate areas placed very close to desired urban areas of big cities in the country, space strategies are improved to deal with these uncomfortable proximities. This text intends to explore the space forms and territorial devices consolidated in our reality, which deal with the inconvenient presence of large amount of poverty inserted in important sections of the city. It is translated in mechanisms of separation, invisibility, distance, confinement and isolation of these patterns, mentioned by the literature concerning the realities of other cities, started from the observation of the relationship of the Maré District (Rio de Janeiro) with the areas around, in the explicitness of the microphysical contributes added all along the years in which the region has grown and reformulated its role and importance in the context of the city. Keywords: slums; peripheral areas; spatial segregation; urban projects.

scholarly journals Os dispositivos cinematográficos no filme Cidade de Deus / Cinematographic Devices in the Film City of God

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilian Fontes Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
City Of God ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brazilian Cinema ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Brazilian Film ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTIn order to think the current culture, the communication practices, the incidence of interference image in the production of new types of knowledge, in this paper we will approach the relationship between image as cinematic apparatus and its conceptual, historical and technical aspects to analyze its performance as narration. In an era in which it appears that the images intervenes in consciousness and in the contemporary representation and thus is becoming an important device in the revelation of realities and the construction of the social imaginary, the present work analyzes the Brazilian film City of God, conducted by director Fernando Meirelles, in 2002, considered a landmark in Brazilian cinema of the period, by the boldness of the language used to convert to images the history of violent gangs fighting over the control of drug trafficking in a community of the city of Rio de Janeiro. We will try, then, to identify the techniques used by the camera as devices able to create the effects needed to immerse the viewer in the narrative of the film.RESUMOCom a preocupação de pensar a cultura atual, as práticas comunicacionais, a incidência da interferência da imagem na produção de novas formas de saber tentaremos abordar neste trabalho a relação da imagem como dispositivo cinematográfico e seus aspectos conceituais, históricos e técnicos para examinar a sua atuação como narração. Numa era em que se constata que as imagens intervêm na consciência e na representação contemporâneas e, portanto, vêm se impondo como um dispositivo importante na revelação de realidades e na construção do imaginário social, o presente artigo visa analisar o filme brasileiro Cidade de Deus, realizado pelo diretor Fernando Meirelles, em 2002, considerado um marco no cinema brasileiro do período, pela ousadia da linguagem utilizada para converter em imagens a história de gangues violen-tas em disputa pelo controle do tráfico de drogas em uma comunidade da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Tentaremos, então, identificar as técnicas usadas pela câmera como dispositivos capazes de criar os efeitos necessários para imergir o especta-dor na narrativa do filme.

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