Urban informality as a signifier: Performing urban reordering in suburban Rio de Janeiro

Urban informality as a signifier: Performing urban reordering in suburban Rio de Janeiro

Urban informality is typically ascribed to the urban poor in cities of the Global South. Drawing on Judith Butler's concept of performativity and taking the case of Rio de Janeiro in the context of the 2016 Olympic Games, this article conceptualizes informality as a signifier and a procedural, relational category. Specifically, it shows how different class actors have employed the signifier inf...

[Urban sporotrichosis: a neglected epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].

In the scientific literature, sporotrichosis has traditionally been associated with agricultural work, since the causative agent is found naturally in the soil. However, cases have been reported recently in an urban area, related to zoonotic transmission. The current study aimed to contribute to knowledge on sporotrichosis in an urban area through an exploratory analysis of its socio-spatial di...

Emergy Synthesis of Urban Agriculture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cities are increasingly challenged in sustaining their growing populations with food. As fossil energy reserves are depleted, the sustainability of food production is highly dependent on the ability to yield more food relative to resource use. In preparing cities for peak oil, urban food systems are therefore needed that make better use of local and renewable resources, as opposed to imported a...

Urban Informality as a Commons Dilemma

Urban Heritage Representations in Hyperdocuments the Monroe Palace in Rio De Janeiro

The need for various approaches of conservation and restoration drives our attention to the different kinds of urban heritage. These differences can be understood in terms of different degrees of heritage values such as oldness, historical documentation, intentional remembrance and integrity. We can also consider that buildings are signaled as heritage as much as for the narratives in which the...