Resisting Olympic evictions : contesting space in Rio de Janeiro / Adam Talbot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talbot, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic Games--(31st : 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)--Social aspects.

Olympic Games.

Olympics--Social aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Olympics.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Social conditions--21st century.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming and homely, directly contesting the myth of marginality – the notion of favelas as havens of crime and poverty which is used to justify slum clearance. In doing so they were showcasing how a different kind of informal community rooted in security and belonging is possible, through a range of social events and other actions. Based on 14 months of fieldwork in Brazil, this book explores how this vision was constructed through collective action, transmitted around the world through both social and traditional media and how it lives on in the Evictions Museum that was created through the process."-- From JSTOR.

Contents:

Contexts: Rio 2016, favela evictions and Vila Autódromo

The Plano Popular da Vila Autódromo: sovereign power and rights

Ocupa Vila Autódromo: space as resistance

Espaço Ocupa: liminal placemaking in the protestival

RioOnWatch: spreading place through the press

Memória não se remove: heterotopia in the Museu das Remoções.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 17, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Talbot, Adam. Resisting Olympic evictions.

ISBN:

9781526156303

152615630X

9781526156280

1526156288

OCLC:

1472918681

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license