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Federal university campus in Rio periphery launches manifesto defending Brazilian Higher Education
Editor’s Note: Opening up to the community, Nova Iguaçu’s Multidisciplinary Institute (IM/UFFRJ) launched a letter (em português) in defense of higher education in early March. The Nova Iguaçu Letter reflects the culmination of a March 1, 2018 “Open University” conference, in defense of higher education in the under-served and stigmatized region, Baixada Fluminense, on the […]
Disilusão e Surpresa: Uma reflexão sobre a Baixada Fluminense
Joe Beck e Carla Castanha (Trad.) Eu não tinha certeza do que esperar quando eu saí do avião no Rio de Janeiro. Já faz dez anos desde a última vez em que estive no Brasil, quando visitei São Paulo com a família e em circunstâncias drasticamente diferentes. Eu entendi que estávamos programados para ficar em […]
Sementes que brotam da baixada: do “The Cost of Opportunity” à Política de Água Ambiental na Baixada Fluminense
Por Mitchell Ryan e Carla Castanha (Trad.) Durante o verão de 2016, passei três semanas realizando trabalhos de campo qualitativos sobre a elevada mobilidade social na “Baixada Fluminense”, periferia urbana do Rio de Janeiro. O termo “Baixada Fluminense” refere-se rapidamente a uma rede de treze municípios distintos e únicos, muitas vezes considerados sinônimo de crime, […]
O Conto de Duas Periferias: Vivendo e estudando no Delta do Mississipi e na Baixada Fluminense
Chloe Ricks e Carla Castanha (Traduç.) Nota Editorial: Este texto provem de uma tese de graduação Eu escrevo como uma mulher negra do Delta do Mississippi, onde as batalhas mais difíceis do movimento dos Direitos Civis do Sul foram travadas na década de 1960. Embora eu apenas tenha aprendido essa história depois de chegar a […]
The Tale of Two Peripheries: Living and Studying in the Mississippi Delta and Baixada Fluminense
By: Chloe Ricks Editor’s Note: This article stems from a lengthier senior thesis I write as a Black woman from the Mississippi Delta where the toughest battles of the southern Civil Rights’ movement were fought in the 1960s. Although I only learned that history after coming to Duke, my home town of Greenwood, Mississippi, with […]
Disillusionment and Surprise: Reflection on the Baixada Fluminense
By Joe Beck I was not sure what to expect when I stepped off the plane in Rio de Janeiro. It had been about ten years since I was last in Brazil when I visited São Paulo with family and in drastically different circumstances. I understood that we were scheduled to stay in a historically […]
Bass Seeds Sprout: From the ‘Cost of Opportunity’ to Environmental Water Policy in the Baixada Fluminense
By Mitchell Ryan During the Summer of 2016, I spent three weeks conducting qualitative fieldwork on heightened social mobility within the “Baixada Fluminense,” Rio de Janeiro’s urban periphery. The term “Baixada Fluminense” hastily refers to a network of thirteen distinct and unique municipalities, often considered synonymous with crime, poverty, drugs, corruption and violence. Accordingly, we […]
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