Surveying research on<i>favelas</i>and the media: emphases and absences in decades of critical explorations

Levy, Helton

doi:10.1080/15405702.2020.1841195

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“…As pointed out by the literature, the grouping of people with similar social and economic characteristics happens through the pursuit of urban resources, which can be land but also hospitals, public buildings, and other amenities that stem from living at or near the city (Park and Burges, 1925). Moreover, as observed with the Brazilian "favelas", and similar to shantytowns around the world [34], the paradigm brought by slums is that such extremely different realities with different sets of behavior do eventually create a disconnect between the populations on both sides of the border, generating stigma against either side. However, the behavioral exchanges happening at the border do not only contribute to the building of a sense of community from both groups, as suggested by the results, but also shape opinions and reduce the stigma that comes from the "musseque" itself.…”

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Common Space and Behavior at the Border between Slum and Metropolitan Area: The Case of “Catambor” and “Alvalade”

2023

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Composed of modern city centers and numerous slum patches in deep proximity and coexistence with one another, the Sub-Saharan African urban landscape is often perceived as chaotic or unorganized in nature due to the inconsistencies in the urban layout derived from the spontaneous occupation in said slums, in Angola, known as “Musseque”. This article focuses on the border between the “Musseque” of Catambor and the Alvalade Neighborhood as a point of interaction of both realities, influencing users to either adjust their activities to the streets or adjust the streets to their needs. With the purpose of understanding the streets’ environmental behavior settings and purpose improvements while preserving said environmental behavior, this study uses the behavior mapping method to identify the users’ stationary activities and then groups them by zone and occurrence, followed ultimately by a series of interviews. The results uncovered a degree of self-intervention by the users, ranging from the establishment of “commercial spots” on the street to “the setting of places to sit and gather” to accommodate for the lack of services, defying the intended purposes of the streets and prompting a deep understanding of what guides the decision-making processes and what the users consider valuable to the built space.

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Common Space and Behavior at the Border between Slum and Metropolitan Area: The Case of “Catambor” and “Alvalade”

2023

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Defining their real problems, getting public and policy attention: Global struggles of deprived communities for sustainable development

Ziafati Bafarasat

2024

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Agenda is the list of issues or problems that policymakers agree to consider. Agenda setting is a struggle between stakeholders to define these issues. Communities suffering from pollution, homelessness, unemployment, and other unsustainabilities have the best science and most legitimate interest to define these problems for policymakers. However, our knowledge about bottom‐up agenda setting is limited. This study is an original, first‐time investigation to explore and conceptualize how deprived communities engage in the competition to set policy agendas. The findings from analyzing secondary evidence indicate that deprived communities engage in agenda‐setting competition in a three‐step process of (i) defining their problems; (ii) seeking public attention to their problems; and (iii) demanding policy attention to their problems. Strategies that deprived communities use in these steps are identified and illustrated. The study produces a conceptual toolkit to research and map bottom‐up agenda‐setting. The toolkit might be further tested and refined, including in environmental studies. Bottom‐up agenda setting is fundamental to sustainable development by ensuring that framing of social and environmental problems comes from their sufferers so that policymakers rather provide solutions.

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Surveying research onfavelasand the media: emphases and absences in decades of critical explorations

Cited by 2 publications

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Common Space and Behavior at the Border between Slum and Metropolitan Area: The Case of “Catambor” and “Alvalade”

Common Space and Behavior at the Border between Slum and Metropolitan Area: The Case of “Catambor” and “Alvalade”

Defining their real problems, getting public and policy attention: Global struggles of deprived communities for sustainable development

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