The pacification of the Favelas:  mega events, global competitiveness, and the neutralization of marginality

Saborío Rodríguez, Sebastián

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dc.creator	Saborío Rodríguez, Sebastián
dc.date	2019-05-13T15:45:06Z
dc.date	2019-11-7T08:46:00Z
dc.date	2013
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-20T15:41:45Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-20T15:41:45Z
dc.identifier	https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/23509
dc.identifier	1918‐2821
dc.identifier	http://repositorio.iis.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/332
dc.identifier	10.18740/S4SG63
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/215133
dc.description	Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host two major sporting events in the coming years: the 2014 FIFA World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Local authorities are promoting these mega events as an opportunity to increase the global competitiveness of the city. But in order to attract private capital from the global economy it is not enough for Rio to showcase the city as capable of organizing and implementing these events. Rather, the authorities must also demonstrate that what has been considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world can now become a safe place for business. To do so, what has been promoted as a new model of ‘community policing’ the UPP (Pacifying Police Units) has been implemented since 2008 in 107 favelas. The majority of the favelas involved in the program are situated around the sites where these mega events will take place and around other wealthy areas of the city. This article analyses the relation between mega events, global competitiveness and the neutralization of local marginality
dc.description	UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Sociales::Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS)
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Univertisy fo Alberta
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source	The Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies, Vol. 9, Núm. 2: 2013
dc.subject	Pacificacion
dc.subject	Favelas
dc.subject	Rio de Janeiro
dc.subject	Mega eventos
dc.subject	Competitividad global.
dc.title	The pacification of the Favelas: mega events, global competitiveness, and the neutralization of marginality
dc.type	artículo científico