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Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Nicholas Barnes, Desirée Poets, Max O. Stephenson, Antonello Veneri, Henrique Gomes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Complexo da Maré is a group of 16 contiguous favelas and housing projects in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro. Home to an estimated 140,000 individuals, Maré is Brazil's largest agglomeration of favelas. Often depicted in a negative light, these favelas are in fact vibrant and diverse communities, as revealed in this remarkable book. Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMaré Brazil is a companion to the exhibition of the same name (Portuguese: Maré de DentroDentro), which was developed by an international team of Brazilian and US academics, activists and artists. The exhibition documents the lives of residents of Complexo da Maré through family portraits, street photographs, documentary films and written works. Featured in this book is a selection of the exhibition's photographs by Italian photojournalist Antonello Veneri, who worked closely with Maré resident and activist Henrique Gomes over the period from 2013 to 2019, during which Rio was home to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. These photographs, simultaneously personal and deeply humane, counter long-standing and powerful stigmatizing narratives, demonstrating instead the diver

Who reads Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?

Author

Nicholas Barnes, Desirée Poets, Max O. Stephenson, Antonello Veneri, Henrique Gomes

Publisher

Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance in association with Virginia Tech Publishing

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781949373561

Category

nonfiction