ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Slum Tourism, Favela, Urgent Care
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Traffickers are selling cable/ internet door-to-door along with illegal goods. People are renting government: issued apartments to tourists. Economic formalization in rocinha: gentrification displaces residents to more informal/ peripheral area. Traffickers from pacified favela flee to peripheral areas. Like the global economy, the favela economy is both formal and informal. The push for formalization is domestic and also international (olympics, world cup) Pacifying the favela integrates rio and citizens into globalized economy. Growth acceleration program: money for infrastructure (pac) Ex: footbridge to link favela to rest of the city; aesthetic/ recognizable component to. Urgent care center (lacks supplies and doctors) Projects= spatial pacification: re/moving/locating poor people, spectacles of state power. Sp= hegemony b/c convince people state intervention is in their interest. Sp gentrifies rocinha and improves rio"s reputation. Pac workers= traffickers, police colluding with traffickers, less visible areas have become more dangerous. 7 trillion worldwide, 7 million in brazil.
