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O Social em Questão, 2022
Incoming peer-reviewed article at the academic journal O Social em Questão printed by PUC-Rio de ... more Incoming peer-reviewed article at the academic journal O Social em Questão printed by PUC-Rio de Janeiro (Português/Portuguese)
The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures , 2022
Book Chapter at "The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure," edited by Geoff... more Book Chapter at "The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure," edited by Geoff Goodwin and Jonathan Alderman, University of London Press (November 2022).
The present project centers on how the African American community of Parramore in Orlando, Florid... more The present project centers on how the African American community of Parramore in Orlando, Florida, became a low-income neighborhood. Based on a timeline from 1880 to 1980 and the construction of the Interstate 4, this article investigates Parramore’s decline grounded in the effects of urban sprawl and racial oppression. Among the effects that contributed to the neighborhood's decline in the postwar era were the closing of black schools and the migration of black residents to other places after the 1960s; the disruption of the community with the construction of highways and public housing; and the lack of investment in new urban infrastructure. The social, economic, and cultural decay of this community begins with the Jim Crow era and continues with the racialization of spaces and the control of the wealth distribution through the urbanization of the Sunbelt region.
No período entre meados de 1999 e junho de 2011, Florianópolis foi palco de diversas manifestaçõe... more No período entre meados de 1999 e junho de 2011, Florianópolis foi palco de diversas manifestações juvenis pelo passe livre estudantil e protestos populares contra os aumentos de tarifas do transporte coletivo, principalmente no que ficou publicamente conhecido como as Revoltas das Catracas, nos anos de 2004 e 2005. Tendo em vista a participação de uma juventude contestadora organizada nas ações coletivas e no aprofundamento e disseminação do debate sobre mobilidade urbana, através da formulação de propostas de transformações sociais, este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as relações e vínculos que essa juventude estabelece com a cidade. Com base no material coletado,
procuramos caracterizar quem são esses jovens protagonistas, analisando como eles definem e dão sentido à participação política coletiva na cidade; às concepções de cidade e cidade ideal; identificando e analisando a concepção deles de direito à cidade; e identificando as questões sócio-históricas na cidade de Florianópolis que acabaram resultando nas contínuas manifestações de contestação.
Book Reviews by Yuri Gama
Planning Perspectives , 2018
When is an urban space termed a favela and its residents favelados (favela dwellers)? This is the... more When is an urban space termed a favela and its residents favelados (favela dwellers)? This is the main question Mario Sérgio Brum analyses in Cidade Alta: Histórias e memórias da remoção e a construção do estigma de favela num conjunto habitacional.
H-LatAm, 2019
Book Review write for H-LatAm. Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University) In The S... more Book Review write for H-LatAm. Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University) In The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro, Shawn William Miller invites us for an everyday walk down memory lane in downtown Rio de Janeiro by telling the history of urban changes in the city from the mid-1800s to the late 1900s.
Source: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53379
MARLAS Journal, 2017
Book Review for MARLAS Journal. In Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Bu... more Book Review for MARLAS Journal. In Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil, Regina Horta Duarte, with the help of the translator Diane Grosklaus Whitty, tells the story of the Brazilian National Museum in relation to a context of scientific, social, and political transformations between 1926 and 1945. In the middle of a dynamic scenario, Duarte affirms that Brazilians started to question what kind of country they wanted and needed. The author successfully portrays how Brazil’s National Museum changed as naturalists reclassified nature, as knowledge grew more specialized, and as scientists began relating to collections in new ways.
O Social em Questão, 2022
Incoming peer-reviewed article at the academic journal O Social em Questão printed by PUC-Rio de ... more Incoming peer-reviewed article at the academic journal O Social em Questão printed by PUC-Rio de Janeiro (Português/Portuguese)
The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures , 2022
Book Chapter at "The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure," edited by Geoff... more Book Chapter at "The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure," edited by Geoff Goodwin and Jonathan Alderman, University of London Press (November 2022).
The present project centers on how the African American community of Parramore in Orlando, Florid... more The present project centers on how the African American community of Parramore in Orlando, Florida, became a low-income neighborhood. Based on a timeline from 1880 to 1980 and the construction of the Interstate 4, this article investigates Parramore’s decline grounded in the effects of urban sprawl and racial oppression. Among the effects that contributed to the neighborhood's decline in the postwar era were the closing of black schools and the migration of black residents to other places after the 1960s; the disruption of the community with the construction of highways and public housing; and the lack of investment in new urban infrastructure. The social, economic, and cultural decay of this community begins with the Jim Crow era and continues with the racialization of spaces and the control of the wealth distribution through the urbanization of the Sunbelt region.
No período entre meados de 1999 e junho de 2011, Florianópolis foi palco de diversas manifestaçõe... more No período entre meados de 1999 e junho de 2011, Florianópolis foi palco de diversas manifestações juvenis pelo passe livre estudantil e protestos populares contra os aumentos de tarifas do transporte coletivo, principalmente no que ficou publicamente conhecido como as Revoltas das Catracas, nos anos de 2004 e 2005. Tendo em vista a participação de uma juventude contestadora organizada nas ações coletivas e no aprofundamento e disseminação do debate sobre mobilidade urbana, através da formulação de propostas de transformações sociais, este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as relações e vínculos que essa juventude estabelece com a cidade. Com base no material coletado,
procuramos caracterizar quem são esses jovens protagonistas, analisando como eles definem e dão sentido à participação política coletiva na cidade; às concepções de cidade e cidade ideal; identificando e analisando a concepção deles de direito à cidade; e identificando as questões sócio-históricas na cidade de Florianópolis que acabaram resultando nas contínuas manifestações de contestação.
Planning Perspectives , 2018
When is an urban space termed a favela and its residents favelados (favela dwellers)? This is the... more When is an urban space termed a favela and its residents favelados (favela dwellers)? This is the main question Mario Sérgio Brum analyses in Cidade Alta: Histórias e memórias da remoção e a construção do estigma de favela num conjunto habitacional.
H-LatAm, 2019
Book Review write for H-LatAm. Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University) In The S... more Book Review write for H-LatAm. Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University) In The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro, Shawn William Miller invites us for an everyday walk down memory lane in downtown Rio de Janeiro by telling the history of urban changes in the city from the mid-1800s to the late 1900s.
Source: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53379
MARLAS Journal, 2017
Book Review for MARLAS Journal. In Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Bu... more Book Review for MARLAS Journal. In Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil, Regina Horta Duarte, with the help of the translator Diane Grosklaus Whitty, tells the story of the Brazilian National Museum in relation to a context of scientific, social, and political transformations between 1926 and 1945. In the middle of a dynamic scenario, Duarte affirms that Brazilians started to question what kind of country they wanted and needed. The author successfully portrays how Brazil’s National Museum changed as naturalists reclassified nature, as knowledge grew more specialized, and as scientists began relating to collections in new ways.