{"id":2616,"date":"2016-01-30T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupfa.org\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2017-08-18T02:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T02:06:02","slug":"cupfa-special-project-talk-by-dr-james-freeman-feb-4-2016-at-630pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/cupfa-special-project-talk-by-dr-james-freeman-feb-4-2016-at-630pm\/","title":{"rendered":"CUPFA Special Project talk by Dr. James Freeman – Feb 4, 2016 at 6:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Gentrification and the Creative Economy in a \u201cPacified\u201d Rio de Janeiro Favela” <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday February 4, 2016
\n<\/span><\/strong>Burritoville, 2055 rue Bishop
\n<\/strong>6:30-8:30pm<\/span> followed by a social event<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00bb Download poster<\/a><\/p>\n

This talk presents the results of fieldwork\u00a0<\/strong>in Rio de Janeiro during the Summer of 2015, which was funded by a CUPFA Special\u00a0<\/strong>Project\u2019s Grant.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rio de Janeiro is in the midst of dramatic transformation as part of a mega event\u00a0led strategy of urban development, centered on the recent soccer World Cup and the\u00a0upcoming 2016 summer Olympics.\u00a0 The business of the games is highly dependent on a\u00a0policy of favela pacification, where military occupation displaces drug gangs and among\u00a0other things opens housing markets to wealthier outsiders, displacing long-time\u00a0residents. In the beachside favela of Vidigal, North American style residential gentrification\u00a0appears to be well underway. The community has long had a vocation for the arts, and\u00a0artists seem to be leading the way in the class transformation of the neighborhood, as\u00a0middle-class Brazilians and foreigners move in to this once stigmatized neighbourhood to\u00a0take advantage of an arts scene, an emerging cultural economy and stunning views at a\u00a0discount. While there is much talk of displacement and exclusion, a minority of native\u00a0Vidigal residents have been able to take advantage of the new opportunities offered by\u00a0pacification. Through a series of interviews with Vidigal residents James addresses the\u00a0question of who wins, who loses and why. How does residential gentrification led by\u00a0artists and bohemians (facilitated by military occupation) look in a Brazilian context and\u00a0what can it add to our understanding of gentrification?<\/p>\n

Dr. James Freeman teaches in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. \u00a0He earned his PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. \u00a0Researching popular culture, public space and political economy in Rio de Janeiro for\u00a0almost 20 years, James is the author of numerous scholarly articles on these topics. He\u00a0has recently given a series of public and academic lectures on the consequences of the\u00a0World Cup and the Olympics for Rio\u2019s favelas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Gentrification and the Creative Economy in a \u201cPacified\u201d Rio de Janeiro Favela” Thursday February 4, 2016 Burritoville, 2055 rue Bishop 6:30-8:30pm followed by a social event \u00bb Download poster This talk presents the results of fieldwork\u00a0in Rio de Janeiro during … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cupfa.org\/fr_CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}