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Of cable-cars and helicopters: mobility regimes and the politics of visibility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Visual Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 , DOI: 10.1080/1472586x.2020.1840099
Bianca Freire-Medeiros , LIA de MATTOS ROCHA , Juliana Farias , Leo Name

Favelas are relatively poor and highly racialised urban areas, historically associated with violent criminality but also with cultural creativity. The cable car and the helicopter, two technologies of transport and surveillance that capture the favelas of Rio de Janeiro from above, are examined here as empirical and epistemological devices that embody the complex ambivalences of visibility that constitute the everyday life of the urban poor. Within the framework of a sociology of the sky and understanding both devices as part of highly uneven mobility regimes, we reflect on how practices of vertical spectacularization produce the favelas both as a landscape-commodity for the tourist gaze and a landscape-warzone for arbitrary killings. We conclude that the relationship between those two landscapes should not be thought of as dichotomous, but rather as a constant and tense copresence in a long history of visibilities and invisibilities that mark how elites deal with the so-called favela problem.

中文翻译:

缆车和直升机:里约热内卢贫民窟的流动性制度和可见性政治

贫民窟是相对贫穷和高度种族化的城市地区,历史上与暴力犯罪有关,但也与文化创造力有关。缆车和直升机,这两种从上方捕捉里约热内卢贫民窟的交通和监视技术,在这里被视为经验和认识论装置,体现了构成城市贫民日常生活的复杂的可见性矛盾。在天空社会学的框架内,并将这两种设备理解为高度不均匀的流动机制的一部分,我们反思了垂直壮观化的实践如何将贫民窟生产为旅游凝视的景观商品和任意杀戮的景观战区. 我们得出的结论是,这两个景观之间的关系不应被认为是二分的,
更新日期:2020-10-19
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