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[ January 23, 2023 ] 1st Festival of Social Museology Held in Rio de Janeiro: Community Museums as Tools of Resistance by International Observers
[ January 16, 2023 ] 2022 Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas [EDITORIAL] #MediaWatch
[ January 15, 2023 ] Permissiveness for the Self-Described ‘Patriots.’ Bullets for the Favelas. What #VoicesFromSocialMedia Say About the Brasília Attacks #MediaWatch
[ January 5, 2023 ] Sustainable Favela Network 5th Annual Full-Network Meet-Up: Connecting, Planning, and Ancestry in Morro do Salgueiro [VIDEO] *Highlight
[ December 29, 2022 ] Representation Matters: Victories and Contradictions in Lula’s Transition of Brazil’s New Government Ministries #ParticipationWatch

Amid the Pandemic, Families Evicted for World Cup Suffer New Evictions Due to Suspension of Social Rent Payments

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. Approximately 20 people are camped out in front of the municipal government building in Cidade Nova, in the Central […]

Rio at a Crossroads: Cidade Nova and the ‘Porous City’ [BOOK REVIEW]

By Tom Winterbottom • December 6, 2013

Rio’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência, lies just 2km from Cidade Nova, known today mostly as the location of Rio’s City Hall. Soldiers returning in 1897 from the Canudos war in Brazil’s Northeastern state of […]