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Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro
El artículo analiza el concepto de estigmatización territorial con el objetivo de desarrollar un marco analítico para entender mejor este fenómeno desde una perspectiva latinoamericana. A pesar de la emergente producción empírica sobre estigmatización territorial en Latinoamérica, aún resulta incipiente, en comparación con la extensa literatura anglosajona. Por ello, este artículo responde a esta brecha en el conocimiento y brinda una revisión de los debates producidos en Latinoamérica durante las últimas dos décadas. Así, se desprenden dos premisas. Por un lado, se resalta la estigmatización territorial como una expresión de la marginalidad urbana bajo el neoliberalismo. Por el otro, a pesar del contexto de marginalidad, se propone que las subjetividades de los estigmatizados se volvieron congruentes con los principios neoliberales de la economía, generando fronteras simbólicas al interior de sus barrios.
This contribution asks how urban inhabitants (trans)form their everyday practices in the face of insecurity in Neoliberal Urbanism. Based on the analysis of interviews conducted in the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, which has seen enormous rises in property prices, short-term rentals, and numbers of tourists, I argue that urban dwellers adapt to asymmetrical manifestations of insecurity through care networks and adapted mobilities, and such everyday practices sometimes turn into more collective, political practices. By combining feminist perspectives on everyday practices in austerity, relational geographies, and work on everyday responses to insecurity, I develop the notion of “everyday scalar politics’ to offer a relational reading of city-dwellers’ practices in the competitive city. The concept highlights that those not participating in formal governance decisions, do enact political agency, and reach beyond their neighbourhood and the local state, unsettling assumptions of passivity.
Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this book explores the analysis of crime-related language. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics, and intertextuality, it compares and contrasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres, both fictitious (crime novels, and crime in TV, film and music), and in real life (crime reporting, prison discourse, and statements used in courts). It touches on current political topics like #BlackLivesMatter, human (child) trafficking, and the genocide of the Kurds among others, making it essential reading for linguists, criminologists and those with a general interest in crime-related topics alike. Covering a variety of text genres and methodological approaches, and united by the aim of deciphering how crime is portrayed ideologically, this book is the next step in developing research at the intersection of linguistics, criminology, literature and media studies.
In this article I analyze the participation of economic patrons or gamonales in processes of city building. Like clientelistic leaders, local ‘big men’ can partake in the transformation of the living conditions of the urban poor. These individuals show an extraordinary capacity for transforming cities, their built environments and social and political infrastructures, especially in small and rapidly growing cities located in the peripheries of nation‐building projects. In my research I explore the case of one patron in Granada, a rapidly urbanizing city in Colombia that received many forced migrants between 1990 and 2010, to reveal a new way in which city building and patron–client relationships co‐evolve and are constituted within a space of intimate interactions between landed property and urban real estate.
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