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favelas

Description: Informal, often densely populated urban neighborhoods in Brazil, commonly characterized by self-built housing and limited services.
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Death Without Weeping
1992 · Nancy Scheper-Hughes · University of California Press eBooks · 2,857
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
2007 · Loïc Wacquant · 1,287
Raciolinguistics
2016 · Oxford University Press eBooks · 703
Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
2010 · Janice E. Perlman · 608
Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
2006 · Enrique Desmond Arias · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 556
Association of early childhood diarrhea and cryptosporidiosis with impaired physical fitness and cognitive function four-seven years later in a poor urban community in northeast Brazil.
1999 · D I Guerrant, S R Moore, et al. · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 470
Latin American Squatter Settlements: A Problem and a Solution
1967 · William Mangin · Latin American Research Review · 425
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The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis
2008 · Loïc Wacquant · International Political Sociology · 381
Brasil, cidades: alternativas para a crise urbana
2002 · Tomás Moreira · Pós Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP · 376
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Governing COVID-19 without government in Brazil: Ignorance, neoliberal authoritarianism, and the collapse of public health leadership
2020 · Francisco Ortega, Michael Orsini · Global Public Health · 325
The Dynamics of Criminal Governance: Networks and Social Order in Rio de Janeiro
2006 · ENRIQUE DESMOND ARIAS · Journal of Latin American Studies · 325
The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, by Janice E. Perlman
1977 · Warren Dean · Political Science Quarterly · 301
The Law of the Oppressed: The Construction and Reproduction of Legality in Pasargada
1977 · Boaventura de Sousa Santos · Law & Society Review · 298
COVID-19 in Latin America
2020 · Talha Burki · The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 285
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Un mundo ch’ixi es posible. Ensayos desde un presente en crisis
2020 · Nicolás Gómez Núñez · Polis (Santiago) · 277
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A poverty of rights: citizenship and inequality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro
2009 · Oliveira,Samuel Silva Rodrigues de · Choice Reviews Online · 272
Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
2020 · BEATRIZ MAGALONI, EDGAR FRANCO-VIVANCO, et al. · American Political Science Review · 253
Crime and plural orders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 · Enrique Desmond Arias, Nicholas Barnes · Current Sociology · 243
Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence and Daily Life
2014 · R. Ben Penglase · Loyola eCommons (Loyola University of Chicago) · 221
Postcolonialising Informality?
2013 · Ann Varley · Environment and Planning D Society and Space · 204
The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil
2015 · Erika Robb Larkins · 203
Social Cohesion, Criminal Victimization and Perceived Risk of Crime in Brazilian Neighborhoods
2006 · A. Villarreal, B. F. A. Silva · Social Forces · 201
Topographic controls of landslides in Rio de Janeiro: field evidence and modeling
2003 · Nelson F. Fernandes, Renato F. Guimarães, et al. · CATENA · 197
The Myth of Personal Security: Criminal Gangs, Dispute Resolution, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
2006 · Enrique Desmond Arias, Corinne Davis Rodrigues · Latin American Politics and Society · 190
The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp
2005 · Bülent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen · 178
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