{"id":76639,"date":"2023-11-09T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=76639"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:56:03","slug":"rip-subnormal-agglomerations-part-2-housing-rights-and-stigma-against-favelas-in-official-nomenclature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=76639","title":{"rendered":"RIP \u2018Subnormal Agglomerations,\u2019 Part 2: Housing Rights and Favela Stigma in the Official Nomenclature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A panel during the seminar discusses representations, classifications, and narratives about favelas and urban communities and the role of IBGE. Photo: IBGE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is the second article in a series of three<\/a> about how Brazil\u2019s census bureau, IBGE, held an unprecedented week-long workshop to debate how to change the term \u201csubnormal agglomeration\u201d used for decades to describe the nation’s informal settlements, from the perspective of favelas and working-class communities.<\/h4>\n

From September 25-28, 2023, leaders from favelas, urban communities, tidal lands, flood lands, mangroves, stilt communities, villages, valleys, hillsides, self-constructed settlements, working-class settlements, invasions, grottos, neighborhoods, occupations, hoods, glens, lowlands, Afro-Brazilian mocambos and ressacas, formal and informal subdivisions, and improvised villages (as they all self-identified), together with employees and researchers from the <\/span>Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE<\/a>)<\/span>, met online and in Bras\u00edlia for the First National Meeting<\/a> for the Production, Analysis and Dissemination of Information about Favelas and Urban Communities in Brazil. With approximately 80 daily attendees, the event was also viewed online by hundreds of interested parties<\/span>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The Right to Land and the City\u00a0 in Favelas and Brazilian Urban Communities<\/h3>\n

The central aim at the start of the second day was to encourage the construction of an alternative approach to the question of land ownership<\/a>, one that builds off the condition of (in)security of tenure, and that recognizes the institution of tenure as necessary for guaranteeing the right to the city<\/a>. The discussion covered conceptual, methodological, and operational possibilities and challenges of guaranteeing the permanence of residents in their areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n