Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Lucas Lima’s 3D printers sit beside his bed, spread over his desk and several plastic chairs. […]
Clique aqui para Português Horror or revelry? There is a bit of both in the history of the emergence of carnival clowns known as bate-bolas (“ball-hitters”). At once scary and performative, historians date their origins to the […]
Clique aqui para Português In a recent paper titled “Undervaluation of Informal Sector Innovations: Making a Case for Revisiting Methodology” published in the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh of the Center for Studies in […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the seventh article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. Distinct from political reform movements and alternative candidates aiming to transform the (inevitably partisan) […]
Clique aqui para Português In Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, enterprising residents with their own businesses respond to their neighbors’ needs. In the favela complex of Maré alone, there are over 140,000 residents spread across 17 favelas. Each […]