From the Mocambo to the Favela: Statistics and Social Policy in Brazil’s Informal Cities

This article explores the history of censusing in the informal neighborhoods that have always been foundational to the Brazilian cityscape. Focusing on Rio de Janeiro and Recife, it argues that the censusing of favelas and mocambos was at once a technology of governance and a performance of North At...

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Published in:Histoire & mesure
Main Author: Fischer, Brodwyn
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Language:English
Published: Éditions de l’EHESS 2019
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10.4000/histoiremesure.8208 2023-05-15T17:33:10+02:00 From the Mocambo to the Favela: Statistics and Social Policy in Brazil’s Informal Cities Fischer, Brodwyn 2019-12-05 https://doi.org/10.4000/histoiremesure.8208 http://journals.openedition.org/histoiremesure/8208 en eng Éditions de l’EHESS Histoire & mesure urn:doi:10.4000/histoiremesure.8208 doi:10.4000/histoiremesure.8208 http://journals.openedition.org/histoiremesure/8208 other Histoire & mesure informalité urbaine favela recensement urban informality census Brazil twentieth century hist anthro-se Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2019 fttriple https://doi.org/10.4000/histoiremesure.8208 2023-01-22T17:01:38Z This article explores the history of censusing in the informal neighborhoods that have always been foundational to the Brazilian cityscape. Focusing on Rio de Janeiro and Recife, it argues that the censusing of favelas and mocambos was at once a technology of governance and a performance of North Atlantic modernity. The eventual emergence of the “statistical favela”, which defined urban informality as a problem of collective social dysfunction, had important implications for twentieth century urban and social policy. Cet article explore l’histoire des recensements des quartiers informels, qui ont toujours été un élément fondateur du paysage urbain brésilien. En se centrant sur Rio de Janeiro et Recife, il fait valoir que le recensement des favelas et des mocambos était à la fois une technique de gouvernement et une illustration de la modernité nord-atlantique de ces villes. L’émergence ultérieure de la « favela statistique », qui définissait l’informalité urbaine comme un problème de dysfonctionnement social collectif, eut des implications importantes pour les politiques urbaines et sociales du xxe siècle. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Unknown Histoire & mesure XXXIV 1 15 40
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description This article explores the history of censusing in the informal neighborhoods that have always been foundational to the Brazilian cityscape. Focusing on Rio de Janeiro and Recife, it argues that the censusing of favelas and mocambos was at once a technology of governance and a performance of North Atlantic modernity. The eventual emergence of the “statistical favela”, which defined urban informality as a problem of collective social dysfunction, had important implications for twentieth century urban and social policy. Cet article explore l’histoire des recensements des quartiers informels, qui ont toujours été un élément fondateur du paysage urbain brésilien. En se centrant sur Rio de Janeiro et Recife, il fait valoir que le recensement des favelas et des mocambos était à la fois une technique de gouvernement et une illustration de la modernité nord-atlantique de ces villes. L’émergence ultérieure de la « favela statistique », qui définissait l’informalité urbaine comme un problème de dysfonctionnement social collectif, eut des implications importantes pour les politiques urbaines et sociales du xxe siècle.
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