Future shock: mega-events in Rio de Janeiro |
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| Authors: | Jorge de La Barre |
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| Institution: | Department of Sociology and Methodology of Social Sciences, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | In preparation for the mega-events of 2014 and 2016, the city of Rio de Janeiro has been going through a permanent shock of agenda, characterised by important urban reengineering projects, population removal and favela (shanty town) pacification. This essay explores the Rio of (sports and other) mega-events and questions the place of the social, in a paradigm marked by futurism and by techno-culture that may be announcing a new political economy: the political economy of mega-events. |
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| Keywords: | mega-events population removal Rio de Janeiro UPPs (Pacification Police Units) urban reengineering |
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