On Unstable Ground: Issues Involved in Greening Space in the Rocinha Favela of Rio De Janeiro
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Rekow, Leanne
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2016
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This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use
restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically
degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the urban favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper
reveals how government intervention policies employed in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics are destabilizing
the fragile social fabric of the city’s largest favela, Rocinha, through military occupation and urbanization
activities that threaten an already low and unstable human security threshold.This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use
restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically
degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the urban favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper
reveals how government intervention policies employed in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics are destabilizing
the fragile social fabric of the city’s largest favela, Rocinha, through military occupation and urbanization
activities that threaten an already low and unstable human security threshold.
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Journal Title
Journal of Human Security
Volume
12
Issue
1
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© 2016 by the authors; licensee Librello, Switzerland. This open access article was published
under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Political Science not elsewhere classified
Political Science