Does the Future of the Favela Fit in an Aerial Cable Car? Examining tourism mobilities and urban inequalities through decolonial lens.

Tipo de Material
Artigo de Periódico
Autor Principal
FREIRE-MEDEREIROS
Sexo
Mulher
Autor(es) Secundário(s)
NAME, L
Código de Publicação (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2017.1281944
Título do periódico
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES
Volume
V.42
Ano de Publicação
2017
Local da Publicação
Toronto - Canadá
Página Inicial
1
Página Final
16
Idioma
Inglês
Palavras chave
Urban poverty
Tourism
Landscape
Aerial Cable Car
Rio de Janeiro
Resumo

Promising to foster social, economic, and spatial integration, as well as tourism opportunities, the application of gondola lift systems to segregated urban areas has attracted widespread attention. In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the aerial cable car system is a key component of place-branding strategies that are preparing the city for global mega events. Under a decolonial lens and the inspiration of the New Mobilities Paradigm, the idealization, the uses, and disputes around this transportation device, celebrated as capable of adding touristic value to despoiled landscapes, allow for a more comprehensive understanding of heated conflicts over mobility patterns, especially concerning favelas as touristic destinations, that are contemporary but are also extensions of older inequalities played out in Brazil. The conclusion highlights the need to infer about the future of the megacities in which tourism flows are increasingly legitimating high-cost infrastructural proposals which neglect genuinely participatory and inclusive public consultation methods.

Autor do Resumo
AUTORES DO ARTIGO
Método e Técnica de Pesquisa
Métodos mistos
Referência Espacial
Região
SUDESTE BRASIL
Cidade/Município
RIO DE JANEIRO
Macrorregião
Sudeste
Brasil
Habilitado
UF
Rio de Janeiro
Referência Temporal
2010-ATUAL
Localização Eletrônica
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08263663.2017.1281944?journalCode=rclc20