Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio De Janiero

Name: Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio De Janiero
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ISBN: 9780822355380

ISBN-10: 0822355388

ISBN-13: 9780822355380

Edition: 2014

Authors: Bryan McCann

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Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions--such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment--that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ambitious slate of municipal reforms. Those measures ultimately fell short of aspirations, and soon the reformers were struggling to hold together a fraying coalition. Rio was bankrupted by natural disasters and hyperinflation and ravaged by drug wars. Well-armed drug traffickers had become the new…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English