Contradictions of the Porto Maravilha neoliberal experiment in Rio de Janeiro

This paper aims to raise some theses or arguments about the specificities of the neoliberalization process in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which may also contribute to the understanding of the Brazilian and Latin American urban context. Results allow the development of three thesis about the contradi...

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Main Authors:	Santos Junior, Orlando, Werneck, Mariana, Ramos Novaes, Patricia
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Published:	Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2019
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spelling	oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-542652021-07-09T14:16:30Z Contradictions of the Porto Maravilha neoliberal experiment in Rio de Janeiro Contradições do Experimento Neoliberal do Porto Maravilha no Rio de Janeiro Santos Junior, Orlando Werneck, Mariana Ramos Novaes, Patricia This paper aims to raise some theses or arguments about the specificities of the neoliberalization process in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which may also contribute to the understanding of the Brazilian and Latin American urban context. Results allow the development of three thesis about the contradictions surrounding Porto Maravilha renewal project. The first one states that the understanding of urban transformations in Porto Maravilha must consider the specific characteristics of the urban configuration of the city (a hybrid, unequal and combined urban order), such as the role of black culture and the African diaspora in its configuration. The second thesis argues that Porto Maravilha constitutes a neoliberal experiment triggered by a coalition of interests, but, at the same time, its implementation is constrained by the hybrid, unequal and combined urban order – which the first modifies in a process of multiscale creative destruction that produces a local version of a global phenomenon. The third thesis argues that urban renewal projects in Rio de Janeiro promote a kind of elitization, peripheral gentrification, characterized by whitewashing processes and attempts to annihilate black culture. Social resistances, however, result in the reproduction of the hybrid urban order, uneven and combined. Research involved several data collection techniques, specially, documental analysis and direct observation. O objetivo do artigo é levantar algumas teses ou argumentos sobre as especificidades da neoliberalização da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, tomando o caso da renovação do Porto Maravilha, que também podem contribuir para a compreensão do contexto urbano brasileiro e latino-americano. Os resultados da análise desenvolvida possibilitam interpretar as contradições associadas à implementação do projeto de renovação do Porto Maravilha em torno de três teses. A primeira afirma que a compreensão das transformações urbanas no Porto Maravilha deve levar em consideração as características específicas da configuração urbana da cidade - uma ordem urbana híbrida, desigual e combinada -, e do papel da cultura negra e da diáspora africana na sua configuração. A segunda tese argumenta que o Porto Maravilha se constitui em um experimento neoliberal deflagrado por uma coalizão de interesses, mas que sua implementação é constrangida pela ordem urbana híbrida, desigual e combinada e, ao mesmo tempo, a modifica, num processo de destruição criativa multiescalar que produz uma versão local de um fenômeno global. A terceira tese argumenta que os projetos de renovação urbana no Rio de Janeiro promovem um tipo particular de elitização, a gentrificação periférica, caracterizada por processos de branqueamento e tentativas de aniquilação da cultura negra, mas as resistências sociais resultam na reprodução da ordem urbana híbrida, desigual e combinada. Em termos de métodos e técnicas aplicados, a pesquisa envolveu a combinação de diferentes técnicas de coletas de dados, destacando-se a análise documental e as observações direta e participante. Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2019-11-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml audio/mpeg https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/54265 10.5354/0717-5051.2019.54265 Revista de Urbanismo; Núm. 42 (2020): Junio; 1-16 Revista de Urbanismo; Núm. 42 (2020): Junio; 1-16 0717-5051 spa https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/54265/61219 https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/54265/61718 https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/54265/64926 Derechos de autor 2019 Revista de Urbanismo
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title_short	Contradictions of the Porto Maravilha neoliberal experiment in Rio de Janeiro
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description	This paper aims to raise some theses or arguments about the specificities of the neoliberalization process in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which may also contribute to the understanding of the Brazilian and Latin American urban context. Results allow the development of three thesis about the contradictions surrounding Porto Maravilha renewal project. The first one states that the understanding of urban transformations in Porto Maravilha must consider the specific characteristics of the urban configuration of the city (a hybrid, unequal and combined urban order), such as the role of black culture and the African diaspora in its configuration. The second thesis argues that Porto Maravilha constitutes a neoliberal experiment triggered by a coalition of interests, but, at the same time, its implementation is constrained by the hybrid, unequal and combined urban order – which the first modifies in a process of multiscale creative destruction that produces a local version of a global phenomenon. The third thesis argues that urban renewal projects in Rio de Janeiro promote a kind of elitization, peripheral gentrification, characterized by whitewashing processes and attempts to annihilate black culture. Social resistances, however, result in the reproduction of the hybrid urban order, uneven and combined. Research involved several data collection techniques, specially, documental analysis and direct observation.
publisher	Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
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Contradictions of the Porto Maravilha neoliberal experiment in Rio de Janeiro

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