Rights of way to Brasília Teimosa : the politics of squatter settlement / Charles J. Fortin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortin, Charles J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure.

Squatter settlements--Government policy.

Squatter settlements.

Slums.

History.

Poor--Political activity.

Poor.

Brasília Teimosa (Recife, Brazil)--History.

Brasília Teimosa (Recife, Brazil).

Recife (Brazil)--Social conditions.

Recife (Brazil).

Poor--Political activity--Brazil--Recife.

Slums--Brazil--Recife--History.

Squatter settlements--Brazil--Recife.

Squatter settlements--Government policy--Brazil.

Land tenure--Brazil--Recife.

Brazil--Recife.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 196 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2014.

Summary:

The site of Recife's Brasília Teimosa favela emerged as a flash point of economic and political interests in the 1930s and the scene of subsequent strife into the 1980s. The name of this district is a contemptuous allusion to the new capital of Brazil, with its forward-thinking planning policies and urban design, in stark contrast to the favela. This concise account unearths events surfacing through periods of revolution, dictatorship, populism, Cuban Communism, the 1964 military coup d'état and crackdown to the amplified reverberation of civil society voices and engagement decades later. Shifting ideologies and jolting transitions between regimes directly affected what occurred on this 110-acre parcel of urban land. Between 1934 and 1984 competing groups and individuals came to covet this space because of its strategic location and political consequence. Brasília Teimosa is about the politics of ouster and the, power of resistance. What took place there still resonates in squatter settlements throughout Brazil. Book jacket.

Contents:

Why Brasília Teimosa?

Recife's expansion encroaches on public property

National politics and the overlay of tenure rights

Federation sabotages fishermen's dream

Drought and migration : profiteering, prostitution, and government deadlock

Recife front, United States intervention, and military coup

Centralized planning and top-down dictates : tourism complex in Brasília Teimosa

Church action under the cloud of military rule

Residents council resurgence and police retaliation

Tenure disputes and the archdiocese's Commission of Justice and Peace

Jaime Lerner's plan and Projeto Teimosinho

Mechanisms of conflict resolution : owners, renters, and field office politics

Campaign of 1982 : land tenure titles as political currency

Promises broken, trust betrayed

Afterward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845196264

1845196260

OCLC:

864789608