Journal Article

On urban studies in Brazil

Arantes, Pedro Fiori, Fix, Mariana

2022

Overview

This essay discusses some key ideas and debates about urban studies in Brazil, considered historiographically, from the mid-1900s to the present. It presents the main components and particularities of what emerges as the Brazilian matrix of urban studies, interrogating the most influential work in the field with the country’s own experiences of industrialisation and urbanisation. It discusses some key urban debates of the 21st century, namely new planning models associated with globalisation, global mega-events, public–private partnerships, inner-city gentrification, housing and city financialisation, rising forms of urban warfare and social control in slums (favelas), and new activisms and urban insurgencies. Through this analysis, we point to contradictions and tensions in relation to European and North American urban theory, calling for the need to formulate new categories and hypotheses to better understand the unequal and extreme processes resulting from violent expansion of capitalist relations over the entire planet, and comment on the new practices and forms of social mobilisation emerging from turbulent contexts. 本文从历史学的角度探讨从20世纪中期到现在巴西城市研究的一些关键观点和争论。我们展现了巴西城市研究领域的主要组成部分和特殊性，用巴西自身的工业化和城市化经验来探究该领域最具影响力的工作。我们探讨了21世纪的一些关键城市辩论，即与全球化相关的新规划模式、全球大型活动、公私伙伴关系、市中心绅士化、住房和城市金融化、贫民窟 (favelas) 城市战争和社会控制的新形式、以及新的激进主义和城市骚乱。通过这一分析，我们指出了相对欧洲和北美城市理论而言的矛盾和张力，呼吁制定新的类别和假设，以更好地理解资本主义关系在全球暴力扩张所导致的不平等和极端过程，并对动荡背景下出现的新的社会动员实践和形式进行评论

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc,SAGE Publications,Sage Publications Ltd
• Subject: 20th century / 21st century / Capitalism / Debates paper / Gentrification / Globalization / Housing / Housing authorities / Industrialization / Inner city / Insurgency / Partnerships / Public private partnerships / Public sector private sector relations / Slums / Social control / Urban areas / Urban renewal / Urban studies / Urban warfare / Urbanization / Warfare